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How The Rising Gig Economy Is Reshaping Businesses

Younger workers all around the world now want to work differently than their parents did. Here’s what’s in it for companies.
Why You Probably Are Not Investing Enough In Your Own Advancement

When the odds are long and there’s no help in sight, it’s our own skills that save us.
The Power of Visualizing Success

Our minds have an enormous capacity to connect the invisible dots to guide us to strive for the impossible.
Faisal Hoque’s Interview on Investor’s Business Daily

Good Habits Fuel Sustained Effort Needed To Achieve: The fewer number of tasks we try to do, the more effectively we tackle the tasks at hand.
7 Essential Principles for Growing Your Business

Creating long-term value with limited resources is a huge challenge for entrepreneurs, but it’s hardly a novel one.
What Highly Successful People Know About Perseverance

Success often has much more to do with perseverance than it does with a person’s innate qualities.
“Survive to Thrive” Highlighted on Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO)

Entrepreneurs are praised for their triumphs, but what about their struggles and the journeys that brought them to success?
Want to Lead? Enable Others to Flourish

Our treatment of each other as humans is what ultimately brings success. Here are five ideas from our book “Everything Connects – How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability” for connecting with the people to move your initiatives forward.
Success Is In Belief

Changing self-doubt into self-belief is a choice. We are answerable for ourselves. Only we can change what and who we are.
7 Methods To Overcome Your Fear of Failure

Self-sabotage is any behavior, thought, emotion, or action that holds you back. Here’s how to stop sabotaging ourselves.
How Highly-Resilient People Survive to Thrive

Mental toughness comes from compassion and vulnerability. Vulnerability can be defined as the diminished capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impact of a hostile situation. Compassion means, “to suffer together.”
The 10 Important Things I’ve Learned About Building An Entrepreneurial Mindset

We are all constantly forced to reinvent, and that takes entrepreneurial thinking with deliberate mindset, habits, and surroundings.
9 Incredible Lessons From Movies That Could Change Your Life

Inspiration can come from anywhere and anyone. Mine often comes from books and movies — books and movies that combine life stories with a spiritual journey.
Why You Should Build a Prosocial Emotional Brand Identity

Whether deliberately designed or not, every organization has an identity, both tangibly — that is, in the design and feel of the products and services it brings into the world — and intangibly — in the way people relate emotionally to the organization.
Want Happiness? Practice Minimalism

Being a spiritual minimalist also means not succumbing to the negativity around us. We may not be able to avoid all negativity, but we can limit our exposure to it.
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.
7 Daily Mantras To Boost Your Productivity

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.