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5 things on Steve Jobs management style

Although I’ve done lists on Steve Jobs before, studying his career is simply a wealth of ideas. There are always more lessons to learn from a man as influential as Jobs. So here are some more valuable business lessons from the legend who was Steve. Simplify, simplify, simplify. The iPod was revolutionary in its simplicity […]

What is Impact Evaluation

Impact evaluation is a technique used to brainstorm by many successful individuals. It is a method that helps you to evaluate all of the negative impacts of any particular change that you may need to perform in your project. However, in spite of its effectiveness, it is rarely used by project managers, which is an […]

Summary of the Book Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull

This book is written by none other than Ed Catmull, the co-founder (along with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar animation studios—an academy award winning studio. Creativity, Inc. is an insightful book about how creativity and business should merge together and become one. This has been described as being one of the most well-written […]

This book explains Game Theory and Strategy

Do you feel as if your work life is not quite as productive as it could be? You go to work every day, but you feel like your business is absolutely not booming? Trust me, I know how that feels, and I know that this is the book that will change your career for the […]

Innovative companies hire people who love what they do

Innovative companies hire people who love what they do. Steve Jobs once said, “People with passion can change the world for the better.” They also can change your company for the better. If you hire passionate people, you will have employees more willing to spend their time – and extra time – thinking about ways […]

Emulation of existing ideas

Realistically, you won’t always be the first to create the next big thing in your field. It is a fact of the modern business world that creative emulation of existing ideas is an essential survival tool. Samsung has excelled at this for years, from competing against Toshiba in the early years, to circumventing patent infringement […]

The Ben Chestnut leadership: lessons from MailChimp

Chestnut explained some of his key points for leading, and what sets his company apart from others. He promotes active chaos, without rules or regulations, and that constant change and semblance of anarchy shows that you are flexible and expect your workers to do the same. He stresses the permission to be creative, as well […]

Open your ears and mind to input

Your business is the result of your vision. However, no vision can be realized in a vacuum. The minute you bring your business to the real world, you need to open your ears and your mind to input. This input will come from all quarters: board members, customers, employees and partners. All of them have […]

What is risk management?

Risk management is an approach of structured and orderly government comprising all the company in order to identify, analyze and control the possible consequences of potential events. This type of management is assessed by internal auditors regarding their effectiveness and efficiency. Risk management manages risks and opportunities affecting value creation or preservation of the organization. […]

Liquidity Risk Explained

Liquidity risk may come up from circumstances where a counter party that is able to trade an asset is unable to perform it essentially because of the reason that not a solitary gathering in the business sector is prepared to purchase or offer the benefit. Liquidity risk gets particularly important to the parties who should […]