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Perform at Your Peak Level with These 5 Mind-Sharpening Tips

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Start by recognizing self-defeating and sabotaging thought patterns and replacing these patterns with powerful and confident thoughts that support your goals and objectives. Manage your mind, and refuse to allow fear and insecurity to contaminate your business. This article was published in October 2014 and has been updated.

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Rocking the Boat: 4 Traits of Wave Makers

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With their recommendations, I came up with an eclectic and interesting mix of changemakers, including a Major League Baseball manager, a young entrepreneur, a CEO, a community service leader and a recent graduate. Wave Makers place more importance on reaching their goal and its impact than on personal recognition.

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A Talented Woman Crafting Careers for Women

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Manager and attorney Ashley Villa never expected to run her own firm, let alone her own talent management business focusing on women who are carving out new horizons in the digital space. And I remember thinking and saying, “Oh, no, my main goal is just to work at a law firm, make a really good salary.”

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8 Ways to Avoid Pointless Meetings

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meetings (totaling 18 hours) per week,” numbers which increase as “management level and number of direct reports increases.” Additionally, non-management employees reported that only 11.9 How can business owners and managers turn around the proverbial time-suck? Hitting those goals will set the tone for future meetings. “If

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The Holy Grail of Investing With Tony Robbins: Mindset Shifts that Lay the Foundation for Financial Freedom

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The Holy Grail of Investing lays out mindset shifts for personal wealth building Robbins has carved a niche for himself in the realm of wealth management, investing and entrepreneurship. Robbins urges business owners to identify their true purpose and goals by understanding their business’s position in its life cycle.

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The Benefits of a Performance Culture (and How to Implement One)

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All the hedge fund managers in Greenwich, Connecticut, probably didn’t pay for their Ferraris by being nice to people. But once they’ve added many new managers, they have to be ready to let go. We don’t have room for people who don’t meet their goals, but that’s from 8 a.m. Nice people don’t always finish first.

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‘Power Doesn’t Come from a Title’

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Bill McDermott’s early business lessons McDermott has lived the American Dream, which is perhaps why his 2014 memoir, Winners Dream , is such an engaging read. A lot of managers are Doctor No. The sincere younger man is discernible in the mature leader; these insights have always been the truest things he knows.