Resilience is among the mandatory traits for career growth.
Regardless of whether you're striving to be an exemplary entrepreneur or grow the career ladder across management and director tiers, sustaining loads of work, weekend deliveries, flying from a tradeshow to an event with high velocity is a prerequisite to building high-performing...
John Locke wrote an article named "There are no Clients from Hell" referring to the popular site for freelancers - Clients From Hell. I've been following the site for some time and there are plenty of educational stories, both for freelancers and clients.
What John says in his post is:
This site encourages the idea that clients who make non...
What makes a $2,000 development project different from a $40K one?
Code quality.
The $2,000 project incurs the so-called "technical debt". A messy, spaghetti-like codebase is 5x, 10x, 20x more complicated to maintain, which skyrockets the maintenance costs over time.
Technical debt is a well-known phenomenon in tech. But due to the ...
"Mentorship" is a vague term. Great mentors are successful industry leaders who are your indirect competitors (or at least a few years ahead of time).
Someone may pick their own mentor when they are a public figure and consume every bit of information they produce.
If you choose a mentor who is only a few years your senior in the same ...
If your company hasn’t grown to a fully-fledged corporation yet, you’re probably terrified (if not disgusted) from all the enterprise lingo - workflows, procedures, contingency plans, risk management (to name a few).
But scaling an organization is impossible without the implementation of business process management (BPM) practices in-...
Every single business struggles with growth. And of the many challenges that starting businesses and even growing ones face, generating new clients is of utmost importance.
Often, service-based businesses struggle more in this aspect compared to product businesses, which is why we've generated this list for you that would help you g...
Client feedback is one of your most important weapons to design a bullet-proof business strategy that scales.
Feedback can identify operational inefficiencies, helping you allocate resources more effectively. It also validates your business model, indicating readiness for scaling.
Negative feedback serves as immediate quality control...
Successful business founders, executives, and managers employ different approaches when it comes to risk management.
Whether dealing with financial volatility, market competition, or internal organizational challenges, managing risk effectively is crucial for long-term success.
Only 23% of CEOs believe they have comprehensive informati...
Entrepreneurship isn’t a 9-to-5 job that comes with the comfort of family and friends time in the evenings, or traveling and watching TV over the weekends.
It’s an effort that usually requires a massive commitment and a multidisciplinary approach for handling dozens of activities at the same time, from branding through technology to a...
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In 2006, I made a career switch and joined an R&D company with a strong training department. Over the past decade, I’ve spent over 6,000 hours on stage - the majority being public speaking and training courses mixed with 100+ conference talks and various meetup or workshop sessions.
I’ve had the op...
