How to Overcome Your Fears and Doubts When Starting a Business

Fear, insecurity, and uncertainty are daily triggers for millions of business owners out there. You likely won’t get rid of those, ever. Moreover, if you feel comfortable while running a business, it increases the odds you’ll fall behind, miss a competitor pacing ahead of you, and losing customers and employees as a result. Despite...

Which Caching Method Is Best for WordPress Websites?

Both client-side and server-side caching make a difference for most WordPress applications out there. Client-side caching usually happens in the browser - traditional expire header for assets (cached locally and fetched just during the initial request), using the application storage of your browser to store some results, cookies, HTML5 ca...

How Do You Mitigate the Lack of Personal Presence When Working Remotely?

The best advice that I could give to remote workers: Be passionate about the company culture and the high-end goals of the business. If you are truly passionate, the loss of personal presence would not be a major problem for you or your team. Here are several tips for remote workers who want to be more involved with their team envir...

How Do You Motivate Yourself to Work Harder?

Hard work can often be rewarding or overwhelming. Depending on your state of mind, you can be energized from accomplishing a ton at work or exhausted from the tough journey undertaken daily. I’ve found three popular scenarios where people feel exhausted and unsatisfied at the end of a workday: They work a blue-collar job that doesn�...

How Do You Manage a Hostile Employee?

Managing an employee's hostile behavior in a large, corporate environment can be very challenging.  It is a complicated process that requires you to take precautions or risk worsening the matter. Disciplinary procedures sanctioned among offenders often include the following phases: Verbal warningWritten warningSuspensionTermina...

Why Should You Create Online Courses?

Online courses can be a lucrative endeavour for industry experts out there. Around 75-80% of technology-related training is offered online in many of the companies that belong to the fortune 500. According to a Brandon-Hall study, online learning requires 40-60% less employee time than physical training. But there are certainly more re...

Should More Companies Allow A Napping Break?

Japan is probably most well-known for its napping policies and contradictory opinions on that matter: Sleeping while on duty - Wikipedia There are other factors involved - stress, troubles with commuting, social (and family pressure), and more. One may argue that those are far more concerning and should be tackled separately (on a global ...

Are WordPress Developers Cheaper to Hire?

It may appear that WordPress developers are cheaper to hire for two reasons: A lot of the tasks requested by clients for freelance work or maintenance don’t require the solid technical background most professional engineers rely onThe business impact of most WordPress website isn’t as ROI-oriented, which is why corners are cut where l...

What Are the Implications of Being an Average Software Developer?

The problem with “average” is that it’s hard to quantify. You can easily recognize the so-called “10x developers” (the A-players).And it’s clear when someone is not made for the job, at all. Organizations have a very hard time finding and headhunting rockstars (due to their rarity) and try to avoid poor developers. We can e...

How Do I Develop as a Business Advisor?

Start with your strong suit - and expand from there. Business advisors are tasked with the complex assignment of navigating the business strategy across various divisions: Management Operations Marketing Sales Recruitment Technology Legal frameworks Finance allocation Of course, no man can single-handedly dire...