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Ideas, Strategy & Creatives & Get into Action: 77 Thoughts on Motivation. Five Resolutions for Aspiring Leaders - John Coleman and Bill George. By John Coleman and Bill George | 10:31 AM December 30, 2011 As the New Year approaches, people will be making resolutions to eat better, exercise more, get that promotion at work, or spend more time with their families.

Five Resolutions for Aspiring Leaders - John Coleman and Bill George

While these are worthwhile goals, we have a more important challenge for young people: Think seriously about your development as a leader. These are tough times. Many leaders of the baby boomer generation have failed in their responsibilities by placing their self-interest ahead of their organizations. In so doing, they have failed to serve society’s best interests. Find a trustworthy mentor: Mentorship is a critical component of your development as a leader. Form a leadership development group: Most of us have little time to reflect on the values and characteristics we want to define us as leaders, the difficulties we’re facing, or the long-term impact we hope to have.

The 7 Habits Of Wildly Successful Entrepreneurs. The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies 2012. Steve Jobs' 11 Rules of Success & Mud Map to Life in the Modern Age. 10 YouTube Videos Every Entrepreneur Should Watch. 75 Startup Tools And Apps new business ideas and startups. Six Keys to Changing Almost Anything - Tony Schwartz. By Tony Schwartz | 10:58 AM January 17, 2011 Change is hard.

Six Keys to Changing Almost Anything - Tony Schwartz

New Year’s resolutions almost always fail. But at The Energy Project, we have developed a way of making changes that has proved remarkably powerful and enduring, both in my own life and for the corporate clients to whom we teach it. Our method is grounded in the recognition that human being are creatures of habit. Fully 95 percent of our behaviors are habitual, or occur in response to a strong external stimulus. In 1911, the mathematician Alfred North Whitehead intuited what researchers would confirm nearly a century later.

5 Unusual Ways to Become a Better Speaker. Five Leadership Lessons From James T. Kirk. Richard Bransons 13 Tips On How To Build A Multi-Billion Conglomerate. 15 Must-Know Facts on How People View Websites. Do you know what is the first thing that your eye is drawn to on a website?

15 Must-Know Facts on How People View Websites

And in what pattern do people scan your website? There have been many eyetracking tests on this subject and I’ll give you 15 most useful facts you should know. The picture below shows 3 different websites and where people look on them. Red indicates the area, where people looked the most, yellow areas got a bit less eye-action, blue areas got the least views and the gray areas, well, people didn’t focus on them at all. As you can see, the more people scroll down, the more they lose focus and start mainly scanning your website. Here are the 15 facts you should know on how people view websites. Text attracts more attention than pictures. There you go. Sources: BBC News | directcreative | GoogleBlog.

10 YouTube Videos Every Entrepreneur Should Watch. You're automatically signed up for the Inc.

10 YouTube Videos Every Entrepreneur Should Watch

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10 Incredibly Awesome Documents to Help You Start a Company

LLC Operating Agreement – I put my first LLC together myself using this agreement. 100 Must See Interviews With the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs. At Under30CEO we think big.

100 Must See Interviews With the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs

We recently published a list of our Top 50 Most Motivational People on the web and things got a little nuts. The article created incredible buzz all over the web and most importantly we fired up our audience to go out and make something happen. As young entrepreneurs it’s important that we keep swinging for the fences. Super successful investors like Ron Conway say they’d rather invest in an 18 year old Mark Zuckerberg than a 31 year old seasoned entrepreneur because the young Sean Parker types truly think the sky is the limit. 10 Ways To Promote Your Business With $5.

Do you want to give your business a boost but you don’t want to spend a lot of money?

10 Ways To Promote Your Business With $5

Try out Fiverr.com. It is a very usefull website to promote your business. Essentially, it’s a marketplace where you can can sell and buy gigs that are priced at $5.