Beyond the Rhetoric

As I slowly but surely make my way through The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, I’m coming across more and more important life lessons. One of the quotes that I’ve recently come across in the book tells me that satisfied needs do not motivate. Think about that for a moment. How [...]

Earlier this month, I turned to the wisdom of Dragons’ Den to ask whether long-term viability was really all that important in determining the success of a company. Today, I turn back to Dragons’ Den for yet another tidbit of wisdom: can you have too many ideas? The precise nature of the business being pitched [...]

That sounds like an awfully depressing statement, but it doesn’t have to be. It’s all a matter of perspective. Last year, I wrote a post on how the possibility of any kind of success always carried with it the risk of failure. If you’re swinging along on the monkey bars, you have to let go [...]

Success is a very elusive thing. It can also be very difficult to define, since success can be entirely different from one person to the next. Even so, there are some common factors that seem to go into achieving success for just about everyone. In some respects, you could say that the recipe for success [...]

There are only so many hours in the day and you likely don’t want to be spending all of them sitting at your desk, bashing away at that keyboard until the right words come out. Some people will say that it’s a good problem to have when you are faced with a large workload. It [...]