Introduction A business is an organizational structure that enables the creation and sale of products/services. Going forward, we’ll be using the nomenclature of “product” to represent the good / item/service/widget / etc. being sold. Products need support mechanisms to grow and scale. Just having a killer product isn’t enough for a business to blossom. The […]
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Jamie Dimon is considered one of the best 21st-century business leaders. He became the CEO of JPMorgan Chase in 2005 meaning he was at the helm of one of the largest banks in the world during the Great Recession. Before becoming the CEO of JPM, he was the CEO of Bank One, which was the
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Writing That Works; How to Communicate Effectively In Business – An easy to read guide on how to improve your writing. Writing in business is about being clear and concise. There is a max word limit, not a min. 21 Lessons Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari writes about urgent topics for
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From 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari writes “Humans vote with their feet. In my travels around the world I have met numerous people in many countries who wish to emigrate to the USA, to Germany, to Canada or to Australia. I have met a few who want to move to China
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When was the last time you searched online for something and you didn’t get an answer? Whether it’s an instructional video down to the make and model of a piece of furniture you are trying to assemble or scholarly research on a niche subject, there is usually a result that provides you an answer. What
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If money and happiness were fully correlated, then my happiness should be at an all time high. I have more money than I did last year, more than I had in college, and even more than I did in high school. The graph below is the ideal visualization of how my money should grow with
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“Seiko Sharply Lowers Earnings Outlook”, “Tech Stocks Rally, Pushing Nikkei 225 Higher by 1.0%”, and “French Economic Growth Weakens” are typical morning headlines from the Wall Street Journal. We see these replaceable headlines every day on your news outlet of choice. On the same day as those headlines, we also saw the following: “Terrorist Attacks
Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian doctor working at the Vienna General Hospital in the 1840s. There were two maternity wards at his hospital. One that was run by students / doctors and the other by midwives. He noticed a lower infection and death rate for mothers in the ward that was run by midwives. He
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The thought of internal vs external motivation has been top of mind since reading one of Morgan Housel’s latest pieces, Internal vs External Benchmarks. He opens the piece with the following quote, “There are two ways to measure how you’re doing: Against yourself and against others. Internal vs. external benchmarks.” It’s hard not to compare
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Ram Dass has an excellent quote, “The enlightened version of a river is still a river.” We can substitute any object into this quote and it will still work. An enlightened rock is still a rock, an enlightened cloud is still a cloud, and an enlightened human is still a human. So what does he
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