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1: A Masterful Student Publishes His Work and Gains Worldwide Influence

( Category: Career | Word Count: 1142 | Views: 4 | Rating: -1 )

It's not enough to know what you are doing: Someone must notice you before you can have influence. This paper describes how an experienced executive went back to school to create a book that launched him and his organization into worldwide prominence.

2: Mid-Career Academic Studies Help Build a Platform for Consulting Success

( Category: Business Opportunities | Word Count: 972 | Views: 2 | Rating: -1 )

Many people would like to become successful business and organizational consultants. This article shows how mid-career education can boost the opportunity to enjoy such a career.

3: Education Creates Attractive Choices: From Climbing the Career Ladder to Planning for a New Career

( Category: Start Up | Word Count: 1017 | Views: 1 | Rating: -1 )

Many people seek an advanced degree, such as an MBA, to accelerate career progress by adding credentials and valuable new knowledge for their current work. That education can turn out to have added benefits for the mid-career person by opening up doors to a better career in a new field. This article looks at how Carlos Laya found a new career field through his MBA studies.

4: To Get the Action You Need to Succeed, Be Sure Everyone Hears and Understands You

( Category: Communication | Word Count: 1046 | Views: 3 | Rating: -1 )

Leaders too often assume that merely giving an order will cause the needed action to follow. In most cases, the order won't be heard or understood the first time around. The article describes ways to get around such misunderstandings to achieve flawless implementation of important tasks in business.

5: It's Never to Late to Add a Degree That Boosts Your Career

( Category: Career | Word Count: 1024 | Views: 1 | Rating: -1 )

If you didn't graduate from college at 22, is the potential benefit of a degree mostly gone? No! Your self-esteem and reputation will get large boosts whenever you finish your degree, whether undergraduate or graduate. This article shares a case history of why the degree becomes valuable whenever you earn it.

6: Waste Not, Want Not: An Executives Digs Out Big Profits by Turning "Waste" into Valuable Products

( Category: Organizational | Word Count: 1481 | Views: 1 | Rating: -1 )

Assumptions keep us from accomplishing most of our potential. That means we usually waste time, efforts, and resources on small potential gains while overlooking larger opportunities. This article explains why you can expect to find huge performance increases through performance breakthroughs in most of your activities.

7: A Physician Starts Life Mastery Through Earning an Online MBA

( Category: Career | Word Count: 888 | Views: 3 | Rating: -1 )

Many people learn the advanced material before mastering the basics. How can they go back and fill in those practical gaps? This article describes how online education can help.

8: Delay Is Almost Always Costly: Act Now to Profit More!

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1323 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Procrastinators falsely believe that delay is seldom a disadvantage. The opposite is true . . . you often die by inches because of delays. This article looks at how to be rational about deciding when immediate action makes more sense than further study, thought, and delay.

9: For Smoother Operations, Reduce the Number of People Involved

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1077 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

From small to large organizations, matters slow down because people are needlessly involved. In small companies, the owners may stick their noses into everyone's activities. In larger companies, the checkers may be checking on the checkers. This article describes how to simplify operations for better, more profitable results.

10: Become a Practical Optimist to Seize the Best Opportunities from What's New

( Category: Business Opportunities | Word Count: 796 | Views: 3 | Rating: -1 )

Most people are justifiably skeptical of new activities that aren't fully developed yet. Those activities seem juvenile, not authentic, undesirable, and annoying. Yet with improvements, those activities can become the best thing going. How do you decide when that's going to be the case so you can cash in? This article describes a discipline you can use to find the best opportunities.

11: Do Your Unconscious Habits Help or Hurt Your Profitability?

( Category: Career | Word Count: 1631 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

It's what we don't think about that often causes the most problems. This article looks at how organizations of all kinds and sizes can check themselves to find where bad habits need to be replaced with better ones.

12: Doing Things the Way They've Always Been Done Is Costly -- If It Isn't Broken, Improve It Anyway!

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1514 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Everything we do can be improved. But following a company or family tradition can keep us from considering how matters can be enhanced. Question those traditions to get the best results. This article provides directions for how to shed those outmoded traditions.

13: Avoid Fatal Errors by Avoiding Untested Conclusions

( Category: Management | Word Count: 1358 | Views: 1 | Rating: -1 )

We often act on assumptions that are wrong. When those assumptions aren't tested, the consequences can be disastrous both for individuals and for businesses. In this article, you'll learn how to spot bad assumptions that can get you into trouble and to check them out.

14: Seek Out Ugly Ducklings to Find the Best Profit Opportunities

( Category: Business | Word Count: 598 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

If something smells and looks bad, few will go near. Yet that unattractive mess may be a jackpot in disguise as Alexander Fleming discovered in finding out more about bread mold ... and producing penicillin. Chances are your competitors are ignoring the same areas, and you can leap ahead and end up smelling like roses by diving into understanding what everyone else avoids.

15: Breakthroughs Are Available If You Hold the Right Contest to Get Help from Outside Your Organization

( Category: Leadership | Word Count: 807 | Views: 4 | Rating: -1 )

Productivity breakthroughs that can save lives, make large gains in performance, and cut costs with the same time, effort, and resources in for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Many people find it hard to locate such breakthroughs, but a new method of holding global contests seems to be solving that limitation. This article provides examples of such contests.

16: Combine Individual and Group Perfection to Make the Most Valuable Breakthroughs

( Category: Leadership | Word Count: 886 | Views: 2 | Rating: -1 )

One person can only do so much. But groups often get in one another's way. This article shows how to use both individual excellence and organizational coordination to accomplish breakthroughs.

17: Zoom Toward Accomplishing Breakthrough Goals

( Category: Business | Word Count: 634 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Most people know how to set high goals, but few have any idea how to implement those high goals. As a result, the high goals are abandoned, and improvements crawl along. In this article, you'll learn how to rapidly turn high goals into that level of performance.

18: Lead to a Breakthrough: Develop a Vision of the Most Helpful Perfection as a Goal

( Category: Business | Word Count: 993 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Improvement depends on seeking after the right goals. In this article, you'll find out what the goals are that will lead you to make breakthroughs that competitors will never match.

19: Put a Winning Team into the Competitive Fray to Create Breakthroughs over Competitors

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1724 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

In this article, I describe how choosing the right team and encouraging the right actions will lead to breakthrough performance.

20: Pursue Repeated Breakthroughs in the Same Area for the Fastest Improvements

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1007 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Many people fall back satisfied as soon as they make one breakthrough. That's a mistake. This article explains that future breakthroughs can probably be achieved in the same area to accelerate improvements by exponential amounts.

21: Stop Stalling and Make Breakthroughs Instead by Banishing Habits That Slow Down Improvements

( Category: Leadership | Word Count: 1178 | Views: 2 | Rating: -1 )

Individuals and organizations cost themselves dearly by sticking with habits that brake their rate of improvement. Identify and eliminate those bad habits, and your improvements will turn into breakthroughs.

22: Stoke the Fire in Your Belly to Make Continual Breakthroughs

( Category: Leadership | Word Count: 1209 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

It's easy to assume that there is only limited potential because we haven't checked out the alternatives. With enthusiasm for breakthroughs, you soon find them in more places and more often. This article explains about the value of generating enthusiasm for breakthroughs.

23: Be Wise Like an Owl in Choosing Your Breakthrough Directions

( Category: Leadership | Word Count: 1057 | Views: 2 | Rating: -1 )

Many leaders set their targets for breakthroughs in the wrong areas. As a result, they miss the opportunity to make greater improvements from the same time, money, and effort. This article provides a plan for making better choices of breakthrough targets.

24: Improve to the Nth Degree and Reap Exponential Rewards

( Category: Leadership | Word Count: 718 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Some opportunity areas offer better rewards for breakthroughs. This article explains how to test various breakthrough choices to find the ones that will be the most rewarding.

25: Be As Strategic As Bill Gates in Choosing Breakthrough Projects

( Category: Leadership | Word Count: 530 | Views: 2 | Rating: -1 )

Leaders make a mistake when they let enthusiasm direct their breakthroughs. Pick the right strategic advantage instead and you can accomplish vastly more. This article describes how to take control over breakthrough project selection.

26: Use a Schedule and Plan to Implement Your New Year's Resolution to Make Breakthroughs

( Category: Leadership | Word Count: 673 | Views: 2 | Rating: -1 )

Most people have forgotten their new year's resolutions by March. But with a written-out schedule and plan, you can make a new year's resolution to create breakthroughs and accomplish that worthy task. This article contains such a schedule and plan to help you.

27: Win the Race to Make Breakthrough Improvements

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1150 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

"What if" thinking can lead to seeing higher potential areas for creating breakthrough improvements. This article provides an example of how to do this kind of thinking and accomplish a large profit improvement.

28: Identify World Class Breakthroughs

( Category: Business | Word Count: 638 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Many people jump on the first way they think of to make an improvement. With more care, you can find a breakthrough instead. This article describes ways to achieve breakthroughs with less effort.

29: Make Breakthroughs by Creating a Culture of Helpful Traditions

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1117 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

People are creatures of unthinking habits. With the right habits, we can accomplish great things. With the wrong habits, we miss opportunities. This article explains how to harness habits for your benefit.

30: Grasp the Prize by Considering Potential

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1132 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Most of us focus on the defects in what's available rather than what can be done to eliminate defects and add benefits. This article describes how to seize larger potential opportunities and capitalize on them.

31: Don't Let Misperceptions Guide Your Entrepreneurial Decisions

( Category: Business | Word Count: 864 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Entrepreneurs often take up the wrong opportunities because they misperceive the potential. This article explains how to avoid that problem.

32: Be Attracted to What Repels You to Make a Strategic Breakthrough

( Category: Business | Word Count: 739 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Most of us avoid what smells bad, looks unattractive, and sounds awful. Because of that, untapped opportunities lurk where no one wants to go.

33: Danger: Your Beliefs Are Destroying Your Best Opportunities

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1058 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Why don't more people make breakthroughs? It's because they believe that breakthroughs aren't possible. This article explains how to get past that purely mental roadblock.

34: Connect the Dots Correctly to Succeed

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1044 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Many of us get into trouble by making assumptions that aren't even close to being true. From there, we spin fantasies of what might work . . . without taking the time to check out thinking. This article shows how you can focus on the right areas for improvements and progress.

35: Salespeople: Ask Questions to Find Out if You Are Getting Your Point Across

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1227 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Most salespeople focus on a great pitch for their offerings. But it may not be such a great pitch if the listener doesn't care about what you have to say or doesn't understand. Questions can help you make more sales than even the best pitch.

36: Simplify Your Work to Make Your Work Better

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1066 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Many people cannot resist adding little touches to improve an offering or a way of providing that offering. Yet if those little touches add more work, they may ultimately diminish the value for customers and users by increasing mistakes while driving those who produce the offering crazy. Keep it simple!

37: Act Like Your Life Depends on Action, and You'll Beat the Competition

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1352 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

In many business situations, taking action is better than identifying the ideal action. Figure out where immediate action is needed and take that action to gain a competitive advantage.

38: Measure the Value of What You Are Doing as Carefully as Warren Buffett

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1566 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Much of what a business does adds no value. With the right measurements, those areas can be identified and eliminated. This article explains how to use measurements in this way.

39: Escaping from Evening Television Watching Brings a Businessman Many Rewards

( Category: Career | Word Count: 994 | Views: 4 | Rating: -1 )

Businessman Bill Kempen felt like he was wasting his time watching television. He stopped television watching and started earning an online MBA with the time he freed up. The result was to improve his business, his retirement income, and his quality of life.

40: Check Your Plan Before You Act

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1488 | Views: 1 | Rating: -1 )

Many business people have the habit of repeating what they've done before. Such a habit becomes harmful when the plan for creating results is the wrong one. This article looks at using measurements to focus on improvements instead.

41: Stop Daydreaming about Having More and Grasp a Hen That Lays Golden Eggs

( Category: Business | Word Count: 578 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Most people would like to have more . . . and know just what they would spend more money on. They would do better to find a way instead to create more with limited effort.

42: Create Full Flavored Effectiveness by Seasoning Improvements with Complementary Instincts

( Category: Business | Word Count: 835 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Many businesspeople try to explore improvements too narrowly. That's like always seasoning your food with salt only . . . it's not good for your blood pressure and the taste gets boring.

43: Weave a Flawless Fabric of Cooperation

( Category: Business | Word Count: 889 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Many believe that the need to cooperate is a disadvantage. But start with the right concept for cooperation, and you'll turn cooperation into a flawless advantage.

44: Leading for Breakthrough Success

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1026 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Breakthroughs require different management methods than do smaller improvements. This article outlines what's required for breakthroughs.

45: Practice Making Breakthroughs

( Category: Business | Word Count: 845 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Focus is hard to find in most companies. This article explains how a little focus on breakthroughs can create powerful improvements.

46: Anticipate Where the State-of-the-Art Will Be If You Want to Reach Past That Level

( Category: Business | Word Count: 1459 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Many business people are locked into poor performance by aiming to meet standards that were obsolete years ago. They need to dig their heads out of the sand and look forward to where the best performance levels of today seem to be headed in the near future. With that perspective, they can begin to identify ways to improve beyond that future level of performance.

47: Take 38 Hours Off from Your Work Week and Still Get the Same Results

( Category: Business | Word Count: 473 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Most business people spend their time on tasks that don't need to be done, performing tasks that do need to be done in in effective ways, and by involving themselves in work that doesn't need their input. In this article, I explain how you can get your work done in very little time while still accomplishing just as much.

48: Don't Try to Put Humpty Dumpty Together -- Assemble Instead a Gorgeous Patchwork Quilt of Practices

( Category: Business | Word Count: 918 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

Many business people try to push a way of operating past where it can be successful, such as by running an assembly line too fast or with too few people. In this article, we look at changing the very concept of how to combine effective practices to create one well beyond what others have accomplished before.

49: Practice Reducing Your Work Week by 38 Hours

( Category: Business | Word Count: 499 | Views: 1 | Rating: -1 )

Parkinson's Law says that the time to do an activity will expand to fill the time available. That makes for a long work week if a person is willing to work long hours. This article looks at how you can do the opposite -- commit fewer hours and get the same amount done. It's a lifesaver for those who want to have a life outside of work.

50: Let Survival Lessons Show You the Way to Breakthrough Improvements

( Category: Business | Word Count: 741 | Views: 0 | Rating: -1 )

When we have to choice but to change, we can be ingenious at making improvements. This article shows how survival threats can drive exponential improvements.

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