Jeff Shavitz on The Power of Residual Income: You Can Bank on It! details the vast differences between residual/recurring income and transactional revenue. Having experienced both business models, Jeff uses real-life examples from his payment-processing career (a residual-based business) in contrast to his promotional products business (a transactional-based business). This book will highlight how to “work smarter” and develop wealth as you navigate through your professional career.
Jeff Shavitz on The Power of Residual Income: You Can Bank on It! details the vast differences between residual/recurring income and transactional revenue. Having experienced both business models, Jeff uses real-life examples from his payment-processing career (a residual-based business) in contrast to his promotional products business (a transactional-based business). This book will highlight how to “work smarter” and develop wealth as you navigate through your professional career.
In any type of business, there is one common goal: to steer the business toward success and aim for even greater heights. If your company already does this, you are on the right track. Enclosed in this AHAbook are valuable tips to consider in terms of leadership and management styles, strategic plans, and attitudes toward running a business lucratively. Furthermore, it enlightens and empowers business leaders to make real and quick changes by opening one’s self to new ideas while retaining the company’s traditional beliefs to overcome economic pressures and eventually stabilize, grow, and achieve business success.
People in the new world of work often find themselves lost in a world that changes fast and requires constant learning and change. But you do not need to be a victim of this change. Instead you can develop key mindsets and behaviours (let’s call them human superpowers) that can help you thrive instead of survive the challenges.
In this book, Marianne Roux uncovers the human skills needed by every individual, team, and organisation to thrive in the new world of work. She researched the psychological and behavioural methods and tools used in mindset, behavioural and brain theory and practice over the last 25 years and narrowed them down to six essentials.
Customer centricity is a key component to organizational success these days. Customers will gravitate to orgs that don’t waste their time and that quickly cater to their needs. You need to deliver your products/services in a customer-friendly and efficient way. Be sure to focus on the customer, as it will drive more sales and profit. If you don’t make this change in delivering customer delight, your competition will.
140 Insights and Tips to Get Unstuck, Get Going, and Get What You Want. Performing and sustaining high levels of achievement while accomplishing all we want, can be challenging and frustrating endeavors. Coupled with complexities of today’s lifestyles, a fast-paced world, and our many roles, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, blocked, or stuck.
140 Insights and Tips to Get Unstuck, Get Going, and Get What You Want. Performing and sustaining high levels of achievement while accomplishing all we want, can be challenging and frustrating endeavors. Coupled with complexities of today’s lifestyles, a fast-paced world, and our many roles, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, blocked, or stuck.
Let’s face it: Leadership is more than a role, it’s an image, and the way that you communicate — to anyone and everyone — will either reinforce your leadership image in their mind, or sabotage it. You’ve heard the expression, “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.” The truth is: if you want to be a master of influence, it’s both.
Women hold 85% of the buying power globally, make up over 50% of the workforce, and there are three times as many female-owned start-ups as male-owned. Yet, there are still barriers to women who want to rise to the top of today’s most successful corporations. Some of these are external, but many are in control of women themselves. We need to accept that there are differences between the genders and that we can leverage those differences for the benefit of the business at hand. Women are good at building relationships and leading with compassion; men are more focused in their communication style and can let criticism roll off them. These aren’t just stereotypes, but qualities that companies can profit from to create innovation and meet the demands of today’s diverse marketplace.
Women hold 85% of the buying power globally, make up over 50% of the workforce, and there are three times as many female-owned start-ups as male-owned. Yet, there are still barriers to women who want to rise to the top of today’s most successful corporations. Some of these are external, but many are in control of women themselves. We need to accept that there are differences between the genders and that we can leverage those differences for the benefit of the business at hand. Women are good at building relationships and leading with compassion; men are more focused in their communication style and can let criticism roll off them. These aren’t just stereotypes, but qualities that companies can profit from to create innovation and meet the demands of today’s diverse marketplace.
The way we do business is constantly changing. So many people today are on social media, and it’s opened a door of opportunity for businesses—especially those that don’t have enough money to spend on ads and TV commercials. Putting your business online can help get the exposure you need to attract potential clients, and having a good content marketing strategy can help you attract the right kind of people.
Physical networking can bring about big opportunities for you and your business. The people you meet when you network can help you achieve your goals if you do it right. Trust is something that you have to earn if you want people to do business with you and refer you. To be effective in networking, you need to present yourself as someone who’s authentic and can bring in value to the table. You also need to make use of the tools available to leverage the in-person meeting and networking that you’ve done.
In today’s world where an organization’s prospect has access to more information about the industry, key firms within that industry, and customer testimonials of those using products and services from companies in the industry, how can any organization stand out? In some industries, buyers have conducted 75 percent of their research on the Internet prior to talking to any firms to make their purchasing decisions. How do you make sure that you are not only at the table, but have a strong seat at it? It’s simple. Two words: thought leadership.
It is a new world for IT Operations. Hybrid IT, DevOps, Shadow IT, the volume of data generated, end user experience sensitivity, and budget reductions keep IT Operations teams under pressure to deliver.
With 92 percent of respondents already using multiple clouds and 64 percent having applications with parts in multiple clouds, public or private, finding and fixing problems is harder than ever. Metric, event, log, and topology/dependency data are massive, more than any human can consume. IoT data is being added to the mix—a single twin engine jetliner produces 40TB of data per hour.
