5 TIPS FOR WORKING SMARTER, NOT HARDER
Working smarter requires a combination of critical thinking, discipline, and techniques that we can employ for making continual progress.
Working smarter requires a combination of critical thinking, discipline, and techniques that we can employ for making continual progress.
To be an entrepreneur, you have to be willing to jump into the deep end. And that takes courage. But courage is just the beginning. At a fundamental level, most entrepreneurs need to repeatedly overcome adversity and pursue opportunities with very limited resources.
FORGET TRYING TO BE AN EXPERT, A BEGINNER’S MIND IS WHAT ALLOWS US TO CREATIVELY MOVE OURSELVES FORWARD. BY FAISAL HOQUE | January 9, 2015 What kind of mind do you want? What kind of mind do you want your team to have? If you want to be thought an expert—you may favor having a full mind. After all, it’s rather impressive to know many things, to be a fount of knowledge. But expertise implies a sort of rigidity; if your mind is full, it cannot accept more information or possibilities. This is why we need to maintain what Buddhists refer to as beginner’s mind—a certain playful absence of assumptions. WHAT IS BEGINNER’S MIND? Shunyru Suzuki writes in Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, “In the
The key to solving complex problems may be to simplify as much as possible and approach them with a beginner’s mind.
Conquering fear is about self-awareness, wisdom, and understanding your strengths–often in the face of adversity. Luckily these are personality traits that you can practice.
Along with one of the highly acclaimed must read business books “Everything Connects”; in 2014 Shadoka founder Faisal Hoque also published several dozen articles. These are some of his most trended publications on entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation, and leadership of 2014. These publications have been read and shared by thousands of readers globally.
A boy from Malawi teaches us how to tackle socio-economic issues with innovation.
Learning how and what to manage is something that we need to continually work at on a daily basis, and that eventually develops into the habit of being productive every day.
From the beginning of time, women have always played a critical role in business and commerce. In a male-dominated, global society, those contributions are not always recognized. The story of my grandmother is one such example.
Entrepreneurship will throw challenge after challenge at you, but it’s possible to power through successfully.
Survival in life or in business has always been about the human journey. Find out how Lego and its founder Ole Kirk Christiansen found the strength to rebuild over and over again with persistence, purpose, and reinvention.
This timely wisdom comes from the heart of an unlikely yet self-proclaimed student of life, Faisal Hoque, who is in the business of innovation and new ventures.
If there is a single line in this book that sums up what the author thinks of leadership, it is this: “Leadership is a way of owning the impact that you and your organization is going to have on the world.” Pick this one up when you want to challenge the champions of the old way of doing things, and perhaps encourage them to think in new ways.
Entrepreneurs are often very hard on themselves. For many, even though it may be easy to show compassion to others, it may be hard to accept, embrace, and be compassionate toward ourselves.
“Quiero ser un emprendedor con la intención de hacer que las cosas suban al siguiente nivel. Entonces me convertí en emprendedor de tecnología”.
In making something, whether it is a business, an app, a book, or art, we bring something into the world that could come only from us.
“There is absolutely no substitute for passion and authenticity,” Hoque said in summation of his remarks, telling future and current small business owners that being true to themselves and passionate about their ideas are ultimately what will lead them to success in the long run.
Given the buzz about funding from VCs, angels, and other sources, it may be counterintuitive to say that your funding partner could actually kill your company.