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5 Steps to Conquer Information Overwhelm and Achieve More in your Business or Career

" What gets measured gets managed". —PETER DRUCKER, management theorist. What do we seek to get from books, videos, articles, podcasts,posts etc? Of course to be better informed to make quality business and personal growth decisions etc. What is your method for managing the things you learn? How do you decide what to remember and what not to?  Memorizing has gotten a bad rap as a mindless way of holding onto facts just long enough to pass the next exam. This perception has it's consequences on your personal and business growth . Let's look at the science behind it. Decision is the product of thinking.  Thinking is the mental activity of searching and connecting already internalized ideas about the subject.  That means no already internalized ideas no active thinking. For example spend a moment to ponder over this question.    How does METACOGNITION contribute to your effectiveness in life? Answer to yourself.  Pls do that before you continue with this post....

Rediscovering the Meaning and Purpose of Business

"You will either step forward into growth or will step back into safety."- Abraham Maslow .  Are you in business? Many do not get the answer the first time. See if your answer ticks all the boxes. In mentoring subordinates in our multi million dollar education  business i mainly help them to redefine certain terminologies to themselves.  Because your definition will determine the steps you take every moment and the results you add to the company and your personal life.  The term " business " is one of them.  To state it point blank, if you have someone willing to pay you voluntarily for the work you do,  products you produce,  or service you provide, then you’re in business. Let's zoom in a bit. The company that drops salary every four weeks in your account is not your employer; they are your customer.  The clients/customers of the company you work for are not your customers; your employer is your customer because he buys your service(skill ). Man...

Profit From The Panic - Bulletproof Against The Global Economic Recession

"Today's chaos is the opportunity of a lifetime for the prepared entrepreneur" . -Donald Trump  Where do you go when you want to work but there are no jobs? Where do you go when the ones you used to go to for help are also in need of help? What do you say to your family when you face the reality that you may no longer be able to fulfil their expectations for security support and protection?  When companies are downsizing, countries are in desperate need of financial bailouts to sustain their economies from collapse, record time global economic recession is looming, where do you turn to?   All over the world today billions of people are battling with the same questions which can simply be summarized as economic crises. The point blank truth is that  the crises is not as problematic as your response to it. The purpose of this article is to beef up your crises preparedness so that positive energy can flow from within to rebrand the chaos into a great opportunity. T...

From Night to Day - A Legacy of an American Inventor

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent Perspiration". -Thomas Edison  Isn't it incredible how much life of humans have  revolutionalized in recent years compared to the past century? The founder of Ali baba,  Jack Ma made a fascinating affirmation in one of his accounts on the idea stages of his multinational e-commerce company .   " It took me about three hours to download a document on the Internet in china 15years ago" What may have accounted for this massive advancement may be science and technology as many people often point out, but he gave an opinion that may sound like a figure of speech. Technology he says does not drive the world, people's dreams  do. To what extent do you agree with his statement? The classic dream of a determined American scientist and inventor contributed a shoulder to some of the advancements we see today. Imagine for a second how the world would look if Thomas Edison never walked the surface of this earth....