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3 Steps to Unveil Your Full Human Power Through ‘Unfocus’

Success

It has two main components as defined by Duckworth and Quinn in 2009: “consistency of interest” and “perseverance of effort.” Inspired by the research of psychology professor Angela Duckworth, grit is widely considered an important predictor of success and performance.

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Why Your Small Business Needs A SWOT

The Small Business Blog

Why Your Small Business Needs A SWOT by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 17, 2010 As a small business owner, or entrepreneur, you have no doubt heard of a SWOT analysis. But with a heavy workload, is it really necessary for your small business to complete a SWOT analysis? Opportunities : external factors that will make success easier.

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Want to Change Career? What Does It Take?

Job Advice Blog

The answer to the question regarding what one has to offer will be an analysis of skills–such as marketing, presentation, sales, research, and data analysis–and then identification of whether one has the traits that support those skills: is the person aggressive, independent, articulate, persuasive, logical, visionary?

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My Theme for 2011: Decisive Productive Action - Productive & Organized

Stephanie LH Calahan

In 2009 I was very ill and even told I might not see 2010!    So 2009 my focus was FOCUSED DISCOVERY.    I'm sure that sounds odd -- maybe you were thinking the focus would be health; but I wanted to focus on figuring out the true cause of my illness rather than having doctors pump me up with meds. 

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Let Go A Little and Help Your Business

The Small Business Blog

The best way to work out the strengths and weaknesses within your business is to carry out a SWOT analysis (I talk more about the reasons for doing this here). This is the best way to move your company forward and to help your business to succeed. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Why educate women – isn't it a waste of resources? | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

After one of these conversations today, I was reminded of this professor and began wondering if he was right with his opinion in the final analysis? Trivially, his assertion that educating women is a waste, is completely nonsensical, but the final result to the economy seems to suggest his analysis could be right.

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Is Your Business Blogging?

The Small Business Blog

We offer a free SEO analysis tool that is simple to use. My company, Pear Analytics, has used our blog to get as much insight from our customers about what features need to be enhanced for our new version of our product. Our responses were quite interesting. And because of our customer responses/comments, it is now even more user friendly.

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