3 Top Performance and Entrepreneurial Articles Week of March 30, 2015

Each week I read a number of peak performance and entrepreneurial articles from various online resources. Here are my top three picks this week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too.

Mood Lighting and Menu Service in Economy?! Virgin Atlantic’s Classy New Upgrade

By: Sophie Forbes

Millions of people make the famous New York to London flight annually. It’s a journey of 3,459 miles, and one that now takes a mere six hours when tail winds are in your favor. Read More

My Comment: Excellent article on customer experience

You Can’t Change The World By Thinking Small: 3 Ways To Change Your Mindset

By: YEC

Changing the world used to be exceptionally hard. One thousand years ago, only the kings or queens could make change at a national or regional level. One hundred years ago, it was the industrialists transforming society. Now, it’s anyone with an idea and Internet connection. Read More

My Comment: What’s your idea?

Final Four has plenty of intrigue between Kentucky, Wisconsin, Duke and Michigan State

By: Dick Weiss

Kentucky is still undefeated and the favorite to cut down the nets in Indy one week from tonight — but a coronation is suddenly no longer a foregone conclusion for the Big Blue nation. Read More

My Comment: Interesting matchups

3 TOP PERFORMANCE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ARTICLES WEEK OF MARCH 23, 2015

Each week I read a number of peak performance and entrepreneurial articles from various online resources. Here are my top three picks this week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too.

Six ways to develop a high growth mindset

By: Grant Thornton

While research into growth has historically focused on locating it in certain types of businesses, experts have recently concluded that it can happen in any business. The focus has shifted towards the role of the entrepreneur. Read More

My Comment: Excellent article!

3 Ways to acquire an entrepreneurial mindset for success

By: Contributor

By mid-2014, self-published authors began taking home the bulk of all ebook author earnings generated on Amazon.com, while authors published by all of the Big Five publishers – Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster – combined slipped into second place, according to the January 2015 Author Earnings Report. Read More

My Comment: Thought provoking

5 Timeless Leadership Roles To Navigate

By: Jeff Boss

Leaders as growth catalyzers. At some point—hopefully, many points—companies must grow, not just in size but in the process and systems that keep the name brand competitive. This is a significant gap that pervades many organizations, as leaders face three challenges here. First, it’s easy for leaders to become emotionally attached to the culture they’ve (ideally) created. Thus they fear that as the company scales, the culture will have an inverse reaction; essentially, that they’ll lose the uniqueness that serves as a talent scout. Read More

My Comment: Important to adapt

3 TOP PERFORMANCE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ARTICLES WEEK OF MARCH 16, 2015

Each week I read a number of peak performance and entrepreneurial articles from various online resources. Here are my top three picks this week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too.

10 ways to boost your motivation and mood to help you get started on projects

By: Jane

Over a year ago I wrote a blog post called “5 ways to motivate yourself to study a boring subject and/or complete a project”. Several people responded to this blog post with comments along the following lines – Read More

My Comment: The value of mood and motivation

Stop Living in Black and White

Anna Akbari, Ph.D.

If I told you that you could transform your frame of mind with one simple tool, you’d be intrigued, right? What if I also told you it doesn’t involve any mental exercises or expensive investments? It just involves a trip to your closet. That’s right: One of the easiest ways to change your mood and mindset is simply by changing the colors you choose to wear. Read More

My Comment: For you to benefit consistently apply

Top-ranked Kentucky moves to 32-0 with SEC tournament win over Florida

By: Raphielle Johnson

One year after Florida won all 18 of its SEC regular season games and the SEC tournament title, No. 1 Kentucky moved one step closer to accomplishing the same feat with a win over the Gators. Read More

My Comment: Skillfully better yourself each day to win championships

3 TOP PERFORMANCE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ARTICLES WEEK OF MARCH 9, 2015

Each week I read a number of peak performance and entrepreneurial articles from various online resources. Here are my top three picks this week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too.

4 Signs Your Team Has What It Takes to Compete

By: Craig Cincotta

No matter what industry you are in, there is one certainty every business needs to prepare for: competition.

It doesn’t matter if you are a startup or a Fortune 500 company, you are vying for dollars and mindshare against people who have the same vision and ambition as you. Read More

My Comment: Excellent article on being a team

4 Types of Lights Control Mood of Room

By: Sarah Colburn

Jessica Soldner of Discrete Designs likens great lighting to an amazing photograph: The viewer may not always be able to pinpoint exactly what makes it stand out but most often, she said, it’s the lighting. Read More

My Comment: Excellent article on setting the mood with lighting

SEO: Measuring Key Performance Indicators

By: Jill Kocher

One of the most rewarding aspects of improving an ecommerce site is the ability to measure the bottom-line impact of your search engine optimization program.

Conversion measurement is theoretically simple with ecommerce: Did the visitor buy something? Informational sites have to approximate engagement with vague measures, like newsletter sign-ups and coupon downloads. Ecommerce sites typically count these among their conversion types as well, but the ability to track impact on revenue is central to performance measurement. From revenue, you may even be able to measure profit and calculate other specific business drivers. Read More

My Comment: Does your SEO work?

3 Top Performance And Entrepreneurial Articles Week of March 2, 2015

Each week I read a number of peak performance and entrepreneurial articles from various online resources. Here are my top three picks this week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too.

The Ideal Business Transition

By: Kathy Richardson-Mauro

There are millions of baby boomer business owners who have to transition their business to others in order to ensure business continuity and provide financial liquidity to fund the rest of their lives. Owners sometimes ask us what the ideal transition is as if it’s a “one size fits all” proposition. The “ideal” transition, in our opinion, is the one that most closely matches the transitioning owners’ goals, both financial and non-financial, and vision. Here are five things owners should consider when they think about their ideal transition:
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My Comment: Excellent article on transitioning a business.

3 Ways Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners Can Build Clients for Life

By: Darnyelle A. Jervey

Most service-based business owners dread the day when their work with a client has ended. Sadly, so many fall into this vicious cycle of working with clients, ending engagements and then going out to find more clients. This is the wrong way to build a solid, thriving and holistically successful business.
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My Comment: Good perspective

Super Coach: Playing not to lose guarantees losing

By: Coach Burt

All the talk recently about the controversy surrounding women’s basketball in our county got me thinking about something I’ve lived by most of my coaching life, which is a state of mind that says, “Anytime you play not to lose, you guarantee losing.” Read More

My Comment: Great article on achievement