The art of networking

To properly establish a network of contacts is a powerful marketing tactic (if not the most powerful!). When developed and nourished, your contacts can accelerate and/or sustain your success. Without contacts, you will not go far. On your own, it is unlikely that you will have...

Confronting doubts

To have doubts or even difficulties is perfectly natural. The difference is in how one deals with that reality. Some repress the existence of doubts and try to make others not notice them. The most honest and courageous confront them outright. The answers to your deepest questions...

Mutineer or mutton?

Many managers encourage their employees to adopt an entrepreneurial attitude rather than a more passive stance. However, when such employees take initiative, they find themselves entangled in dense organizational bureaucracy. Therefore, one can easily conclude that instead of the insurgents the market calls for, these...

What you need to be a multitasker

To only have one project to manage is, increasingly, a utopia. Hence, to be someone, who multitasks becomes a matter of survival and not merely an asset. The ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously without losing efficiency requires two main skills: 1. To know how to distinguish...

How to have original ideas

To have original ideas is not to learn or modify the ideas of others. It is not a matter of digesting the information that one considers important until one adopts it as one’s own. It is also not a matter of being aware of what...