Outsourcing has become more and more popular among successful businesses because it helps you to get more done and you don't have to worry about finding the people to work for you yourself.
I'm myself more of a self-doer and I can honestly say that this has, in big part, slowed down the growth in all of my projects. The reason being that I try to be the mother, the father and the baby all at once. And if you're doing all yourself, you can't really commit 100% to anything, thus all parts of y...
read moreOften, different spots in the same business have different values. Eg take a river – it’s always the same river, but the value varies in different locations, locations like ford, bridges, and nice beaches. Or take producing books – the publishing agency without Stephen King is not that good. Stephen King is important, not definitely the publishing agency.
Every business consists of a number of people – leaders, employees, why not consultants and clients. They all play a different role in you...
read moreGet your employees talk about the company they are working with – your company. Now this is already a thought on marketing but I thought I’d bring it out here as well. And note – I deliberately said “working with” not “working for”. Make your own conclusions. If your employees don’t talk about you, why would your customers/clients/readers talk about you? So go ahead and give your employees something to talk about, something great, something interesting, something weird, something unusual, give t...
read moreI would say there’s 4 phases in everyone’s life. And more, I would say there’s 4 phases in all areas of everyone’s lives. The first is knowing everything – this is where you’re really stupid and you think you know everything. The second is knowing nothing. That’s when you have realized there’s really a lot to know about and you really don’t know anything. And that’s a good thing because this makes you learn. The third one is learning, the pursuit of knowledge. And the fourth one is…for a lack of...
read moreMany business owners do not appreciate failure. But the problem with this approach is that there can be no failure only if you do what you have always done or what others have always done and what you know that works; sometimes somehow anyhow.
And this means that you will never try nor let your employees try anything different that might bring failure. So the only way to go is to encourage people to use their creative potential. And if someone fails, if someone makes mistakes, it’s only norm...
read moreIt’s not very difficult to get new people with know-how to work with you, all you need is a great project and a great sales pitch. But it gets more difficult when you already have the people – now you need to keep them going, keep them motivated and let them have a lot of fun on the way.
People need to have fun. Whether it’s you, your co-workers or your employees, to keep you all motivated you need to be doing what you like and you need to make and keep the work enviroment fun. When you are...
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