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Development of your Business Idea

In the business voyage that leads to the creation of your company the starting point is to produce ideas or discover business opportunities that allow you to reach the end of such voyage, i.e., the foundation of your company. In this sense, development of your business idea should consider the following:

The idea must be opportune and pertinent, i.e., you must verify that the current state of markets is suitable for developing your business idea, which basically means that there must be a base of customers demanding the product or service that you want to offer. Furthermore, you must verify

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Posted on March 22, 2013 by Herrera · 1 Comment

12 Steps for Entrepreneurship Development

Are you facing excessive hurdles for developing your entrepreneurial project? Do you feel you could attain improved results but you are lacking a development plan and organizational guidelines? Well, don’t worry. In this post I’ll teach you how to fulfill the development of your entrepreneurship plan by means of 12 steps, carefully envisioned for leading entrepreneurs towards success. Let’s begin by reviewing the notion of entrepreneurship. First, an entrepreneur is a person who creates and introduces new things, in order to achieve some well-defined economical and social goals. Thereby, entrepreneurship simply amounts to being an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship might … (Continue Reading)

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Herrera · Leave a comment

Secrets of an Effective Oral Communication

It is known that the powers and skills of effective orators and speakers are not innate. Orators, like many people, either by profession or interest, may have found it extremely difficult to communicate or to express their ideas in public. Then, what actions have they taken to improve their skills for speaking in public? Well, they have solved this problem, either by attending specific courses, or by learning good techniques for breathing and public speaking, which helped them overcome their fear of speaking, of expressing their ideas and opinions. Thus, by means of the spoken word, they have achieved success … (Continue Reading)

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Herrera · 1 Comment

Why it’s so hard to make good decisions?

The time for taking a decision is the hardest one, because it means the end of all of the efforts of every person involved in a process. The entire organization and its directors are depending on the decisions that are to be taken. That’s why decision making is a key issue for the organizational lifecycle. Taking a decision is an instant so important, that there are a lot of people (organization’s directors included) who are always trying to run away from taking important decisions, because they’re unable to handle the pressure or they are assaulted by huge doubts before … (Continue Reading)

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Herrera · 1 Comment

A Checklist for an Outstanding Interview

First, don’t forget to review your résumé to respond firmly and fluently without mistakes about the data in your résumé. Prepare a shining résumé. A good exercise is trying to anticipate and ask yourself some questions that your interviewer could ask. Bring along a copy of your résumé, just in case your original submission is lost. Finally, we recommend that you research all you can about the company to meet their expectations, constraints, labor and hiring philosophy, and so on.

A professional appearance: It is essential to to attend the interview wearing appropriate clothing, no sports clothing or

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Posted on January 28, 2013 by Herrera · Leave a comment

15 Qualities of Successful Leaders

In this post we will highlight the traits of successful leaders. As I’ve commented previously in The 7 Attributes of Leadership, when I have to evaluate someone for hiring, I always try to identify leadership qualities, because people with such traits perform and coordinate a lot better than simple people. In short, what I look for is people with potential, people who is hungry for more, people able to grow and evolve. And these people can be identified because they have the traits or characteristics of leaders. Besides, as time goes by, these traits will also strengthen the … (Continue Reading)

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Herrera · 7 Comments

Energy and Leadership

Energy and leadership must go hand in hand, which means that leaders must know the elements for their work, must have high aspirations and ideas and should perfectly understand the dynamics of organizational flow and they create energy that way. Therefore, we can define energy as the ability of an organization to act and achieve, which drives the organization forward, holding its balance and keeping it focused during downturns, transitions and crisis.

Then, the task of a leader is to use her own energy to motivate others and achieve an important organizational state: every organization’s member should be able to … (Continue Reading)

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Herrera · Leave a comment

Top 10 Tips for Being your Own Boss

Being your own boss and being an entrepreneur is not for everyone. The risk or fear of failure stops many talented people from taking the first step. For some people it is the best way to become a billionaire but in reality, it is increasingly accessible to all. As Alain de Botton says, working for yourself does not always make you rich but can make you much happier. Therefore, here are the top 10 tips for being your own boss:

Motivation: Motivation is the key. Motivation provides you with the energy to overcome obstacles and hindrances.
Love what you

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Posted on January 8, 2013 by Herrera · 2 Comments

Content-rich Productions: 7 key aspects

If your work is related to or focused on production of content-rich material, such as articles, books, movies, web sites, educative software applications, and so on, please pay special attention to the following key aspects to guarantee the high quality of your deliverable:

Fragmentation: Fragmentation is a current problem in knowledge. It occurs because knowledge is separated in isolated parts, sometimes with very strict boundaries, and the audience of your work might end up grasping only little parts of the knowledge base embedded in your work, missing the crucial interconnections between concepts and ideas, and also missing the

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Posted on November 9, 2012 by Herrera · Leave a comment

Work, boredom and procrastination

Today I was thinking about my previous entry on procrastination. Therein I said that people who do not love their work are bored (and likely boring) people. I want to add up to it:

Work is desirable because it might serve as preventive of boredom. Indeed, our work at a given time and location might be really tedious or uninteresting. However, such tedium is quite small in comparison with the boredom stemmed from empty days, days without nothing to do.
Further, work has another benefit: it makes vacations much more enjoyable when they come. A happy life requires

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Posted on February 16, 2012 by Herrera · 1 Comment

Money

What is your relation with your money? This is something I insist a lot in my business seminars: look for money, but never lend your heart to money. In other words, win money, but don't let money to win you. Are you a winner? Read this post and discover if you are one!

Business

In the 7 Attributes of Leadership I discuss about the traits I pay close attention to when hiring someone, as I always strive to work with leaders.

Technology

Nowadays, the net is inhabited by myriad blogs. Therefore, to stand out has become more and more challenging. Thus, the question arises: how to highlight our blog in order to distinguish it from others? It's simple. Follow a "samurai" approach.

Health

Memory is the mental ability which allows us to store, retain, and information. A clear memory amounts to a "bigger" vision of our world. In this post, we review the nature and physiology of memory, and derive some helpful tips for keeping it active, and young.