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4 Powerful Entrepreneurial Lessons From The Mary Kom Movie
Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom is a female Indian boxer from a remote village in Manipur, India. She is a 5 times World Champion and the only female player in the world to have won a medal in each of the 6 championship under ‘World Amateur…
Wharton’s Free Online Course on Social Entrepreneurship [Teachers Day Special]
Today is Teacher’s day – A day to remember and thank all the teachers and Gurus in your life who have made you what you are. I have been fortunate enough to have teachers (in my school, college and in my professional life) who have…
Multitasking Is A Modern Day Myth. To Get Things Done, Stop Multitasking And Start Focusing
Being the captain of the ship and running a business is almost the same thing. Looking out for those ice-bergs by steering your ship away from potential sea disasters while assigning tasks to all the other ship mates and checking on the…
5 Ways A Manager Can Transform Into A Leader Without Passing Any Exam
Management is doing things right, Leadership is doing the right things – Peter Drucker
The greatest myth of the corporate world is that a leader and a manager both are the same people.
In very simple terms, a manager is a person who…
Entrepreneurs Guide To Manage & Engage Employees!
The issue of depleting employee engagement is the runner up in the entrepreneur’s “Top 10 things that worry me” relay race. The decreasing employee engagement is a new age epidemic that has taken over the workspaces, thanks to the…
5 Entrepreneurial Insights Shared By Robin Williams Unknowingly
Yesterday was a sad day for every movie lover across the world: Robin Williams, the enchanting comedian-actor died at the age of 63. The whole movie fraternity and creative world was in shock: How can a person who made the whole world laugh…
3 Reasons Why Goals Are Actually Evil & 3 Solutions To This Problem
Productivity coaches and time management wizards can get a heart attack after reading this title: Goals are really that bad? Right from the school to the college and then job, we have been listening that a successful person create goals…
10 Awesome Tools Every Startup Should Use Everyday
Startup owner’s life is challenging and the entrepreneurs are always loaded with never ending list of top-priority tasks everyday. Thankfully, there are really good tools available today that can help us save time run the business…
Modi Creates Ministry of Entrepreneurship To Boost Job Creation in India
For the first time in the history of Independent India, a new Ministry of Entrepreneurship has been created which will help to produce more entrepreneurs and business men in India. After taking over as the new Prime Minister of India, Modi…
Productivity Hack To Eliminate Junk From Your Life – The 30-Second Test
Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Productivity is often confused with how busy you are. There are several individuals out there…
Short Guide To Lightening Fast Decision Making – Simplifying Small & Big Decisions (Part 2)
The entrepreneur needs to make a hell lot of decisions in day to day operations; both for his business and personal life. We are taking thousands of decisions daily, consciously as well as sub-consciously but sometimes, decision…
Divide & Rule: Psychological Productivity Hack Which Actually Works Magnificently!
Psychology is the science and art of understanding our mind in order to derive mental functions and behaviors. No, I am not a psychologist, but have researched quite a few psychological theories with respect to productivity, and in this…
Conquering Your Limiting Factors – Ways To Identify & Kill Them For Better Productivity
Wikipedia defines “Limiting factor” as an element or entity which limits the growth of an individual, an organization or a process. In short, whatever growth or development you are lacking, this “limiting factor” has a lot to do with…
ABCDE Method For Optimal Productivity: Setting Your Priorities Right Everyday
The first law of success is concentration – to bend all the energies into one point, and to go directly to that point, without looking left or right. – William Matthews
Human mind can be distracted pretty easily; we tend to give…
Entrepreneurs, What Is The Value Of Your Business Idea? Hint: It Is In Cents!
Having worked on tens of ideas and founded two companies in last 6 years, there is one question which has always troubled me. What is the value of a company when it is in the idea phase. There are numerous ways of valuation and all of them…
The Law Of The Vital Few & Entrepreneurship: 9 Steps To Streamline Your Focus…
The Law of Vital Few can be described as one of the strongest pillars of productivity. As we learnt in the last chapter, 80% of the results come from 20% of our efforts, and this 80/20 rule can be applied everywhere.
In this chapter,…
The Law Of The Vital Few & Entrepreneurship: Importance Of 80/20 Rule In Productivity
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus” ? Alexander Graham Bell
In the year 1905, Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto observed a very interesting phenomenon happening in…
Mind Tricks For Better Productivity 2 – Four Ways To Relax Your Mind To Boost Productivity
In the last chapter of mind trick series, we had discussed how we can fool our minds into better productivity by using structured procrastination and by taking our work into the coffee shop. Before writing that post, I had myself…
Mind Tricks For Better Productivity – How To Fool Our Mind To Boost Productivity
Our mind is a very strange customer. We promise ourselves that gym would be regular from now on, but we make excuses and avoid going. We make up our mind not to screw that important job interview but do everything possible to screw it.…
Effective Workflow Management 4: The 6 Stage Model of Reviewing Your Productivity
Today is Wednesday, January 22, 2013 and the time is 11.30 AM. What is the task that I should accomplish right now?
In the frenzy of the ‘incoming’ and the ‘urgent’, we often lose track of the open loop tasks, which we have started…