Intellectual Business Community

           1.    Seek Out the Best Advice "As a CEO, you should never blindly follow the advice of anyone - be it a team member, a board member, or an adviser. After all, whatever the outcome, it ultimately belongs to you. But you do need to seek out the best advice you can get to figure out the right answer. Sometimes, the right answer comes from someone in a way that seems painfully obvious. But remember, just because it's obvious doesn't mean it's wrong." 2.     A Great Idea Is Never Enough "Like scientists, entrepreneurs solve problems through a tremendous amount of work validating and invalidating early ideas - not from a single spark of inspiration. Great entrepreneurs build their success over time, not in a single moment. Ideas are static. Entrepreneurship is dynamic." 3.     Become a Better Leader "Vision is the reason your company was born, but leadership will be the reason it thrives. Work at becoming a better leader.&q

The age-old adage that time wasted is never recovered still applies. ·       You can have a 13 th month in a year . You can decide to get yourself more time within which to get rich and get whatever you want sooner. You can shorten your sleeping time and use the extra time for making smart moves.  If you for two hours less and use the time to work, you will have done an equivalent of an extra month’s work. ·       Sound time management begins with the degree of skill that you use to control your off-duty time. For those in employment, off duty time should be used constructively for such activities as studying to furthering your career or for learning something new.off duty time here is different from recreation time. ·          Establish your priorities Plan all your activities, Analyze your general plan, then organize your activities to find out: 1.        Which is most urgent. 2.        Whi

The copyright laws sever to create property rights for certain kinds of intellectual property, generally called works of authorship. Copyrights laws protect the legal rights of the creator of an original work by preventing others from reproducing the work in any other way.   Kind of intellectual property   Modern copyrights laws serve to protect a variety of intellectual property ranging from songs and jingles to computer software and proprietary databases. The intellectual property under copyright laws can be classified as follows.   Literary works   These cover published works, including books, articles, journals, and periodicals, as well as manuscripts. Even adaptations, translations, and abridgments are taken as original works and are protected under copyright law. Very importantly, these also cover computer programs and computer databases.   Dramatic works   A dramatic work means a work capable of being physically performed. It need not

What Is Network Marketing? The simplest explanation of network marketing is that it is a method of marketing that utilizes independent representatives to reach potential customers that a company otherwise would not reach with traditional online or offline marketing methods. In order to accomplish this, network marketing companies and their associates recruit individuals I.E. “their sales force,” just like other companies and franchises have done for years, take for example the insurance industry. How often have you seen ads on television that use the term, “Independent Insurance Agent or Associate?” Yet, as we watch these advertisements we naturally assume they are employees of the company, when in reality they are independent business owners! Why are companies willing to pay you to market for them? Why don’t they just utilize the internet or other traditional marketing methods? It’s quite simple, they want access to your network, that is you

SELECTING A BUSINESS PARTNER The following are the things that you should consider when selecting a business partner:     A Compatible “chemistry” Does the partner stimulate enthusiasm?  Does the partner stimulate new ideas?  Can you work well together?  Is there an absence of ego, authoritarianism, and stubbornness?          Contrasting backgrounds   Can the partner offer a different perspective?  Can you disagree agreeably?  Can you both use logic, rather than emotion, to reconcile differences?  Does the partner add talent or some experience to the business that you do not have?          Willingness to share the same goods Can you pull as a team?  Do you have similar outlooks toward the company, where it should go, and how to get there?  Are you about equal I drive and ambition?