How to Avoid Common Pitfalls When Starting a Business
Starting a business is both fun and rewarding. It allows entrepreneurs to pursue their professional endeavors while taking control of their own financial destiny. While turning the idea of a business into a reality is relatively easy, creating successful, profitable...
How to Use Maslow’s Hierarchy in Business
A pyramid that could possibly rival those in Egypt is American psychologist Abraham Maslow’s groundbreaking Hierarchy of Needs pyramid. In 1943, Maslow wrote one of the most significant papers in the field of psychology, A Theory of Human Motivation. In it, he...
How to Restart a Stalled Career
You never expected to find yourself in a dead end job. This was supposed to be a brilliant career move, but here you sit. It's a few years later and you're going nowhere and that lack of direction is starting to make you hate a job you were once excited to do. While...
How to Avoid Being Too Transparent with Employees
Transparency can help you create a positive work environment, but too much of a good thing can become a problem. For example, when mistakes cause setbacks for your firm, your team members could become preoccupied with blaming the responsible party rather than working...
Business Ethics in Different Countries
Business ethics will differ from country to country and, as such, you should educate yourself on these business ethics in your international business practice. At its core, business ethics is the study of business policies and practices. This includes things like...
Entrepreneur Success Stories: Tony Robbins
Born Anthony J. Mahavoric of Croatian origin in North Hollywood, California, on February 29, 1960, he eventually became famous and gained a lot of recognition known as Tony Robbins after having decided to use his stepfather’s easier surname of Robbins. He worked...
Entrepreneur Success Stories: Arianna Huffington
Born in Athens, Greece, on July 15, 1950, Arianna Huffington is a shining example of someone who has “conquered the world” with her amazing talents and her climb over the years to a net worth of $50 million as of October 4, 2016. Arianna moved to England when she was...
Entrepreneur Success Stories: Kevin O’Leary
Today, Kevin O'Leary is known as one of the "sharks" on the popular television show Shark Tank. However, he was and still is, a highly successful businessman and investor before television. In fact, his personal net worth is approximately three hundred million...
Creating Core Values for a Company
Each company has a set of core values that it strives to maintain in its daily operations. Setting those core values up may seem like a daunting task but if you go into it with the mindset that you’ll succeed, you’ll find that coming up with core values is quite easy....
A Cheat Sheet for Dressing Appropriately for Your Workplace
Finding the proper dress for work can always be a little challenging, especially when you’re first beginning at the company. Most companies have a dress code but those dress codes can sometimes lack as far as information goes that points to specific questions you may...