Nicholas Bate

Add Spark To Your Team Meeting with the Instant FBI Vocab. Kit 7

You'll have noticed how FBI briefing sessions in your favourite dramas always seem a lot more exciting than your operations meeting. Spice things up a little by using any of the following at opportune times:

1. Protocol. 
2. Triangulate.
3. Gone dark. 
4. Restricted code access. 
5. Forensics.
6. Three blocks in all directions.
7. Lock-down. Now.

Poor Work Performance and What To Do About It

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Why Life Sometimes Seems Against You 7

1. No goal. You don't what your goal is? It doesn't have to be the goal. Just a goal. Goals help with focus in tricky times.
2. No plan. You hate planning? More of us do than you might think; it doesn't need to be complex: some actions and some dates; that will pull you out of confusion rapidly.
3. No motivation. It rarely 'just comes'. It needs to to be kick-started by taking a first step: that's why a goal and a plan are so handy.
4. Misconception: someone said it was going to be easy and you are disappointed it isn't. Simple. They didn't know what they were talking about. 
5. Constant failure. Nope, constant feed-back. 67 rejections for your manuscript is nothing. Double your rate of submissions.
6. Never any money. You need a money plan. Yep, planning is a theme.
7. Results slow and late to come. Start earlier; work faster. They will absolutely definitely arrive.

If You Are Using Your iPhone

more and more as your 'main camera' you may be interested in the work Chase Jarvis is doing: check out his very cool iPhone app.

How To Write & Publish Your Business Book 1-30: 1

1: Do it. Simply do it. You have got some great ideas which could help an audience, perhaps create a whole new field and change the world. There's a book (or more) in you. But what is it? And how does it get done? We'll address those essential questions soon, but before that, (1)  the challenging news; it has never been tougher to get your book accepted. The landscape of publishing has clearly been changing for years but recessionary forces have made it a nightmare for most publishers to support 'new' books. (2) The good news: the combination of easy to use software, short digital runs and on-line marketing has brought unprecedented power to the finger-tips of you, the author. So for now: simply focus on what your book would be. Do It. Simply Do it.

Ensure You Regularly

check out Matt Rutherford for inspiration, great music, cool links and more.

Selling Without Tears 1-25: 19

19: Understand your m and Ms.There are two kinds of marketing, both of which if not executed properly will make it very difficult to sell effectively. There's Marketing (with a big M): that's strategic marketing which asks fundamental questions such as: which market/s do we want to be in? What's our value chain? What critical differences compared to our competitors do we offer? And then there's marketing with a small m: that's generating leads via drive-time radio advertisements or flyers in the mall or whatever. That needs to be carefully thought through, carefully measured and above all reflect the thinking in Marketing. Get both m and Ms right and selling is a whole lot easier. Understand your m and Ms.

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Ian Aspin

-in case you didn't know-has a blog, too.

Whatever Happens 7

1. It'll 
   
2. be 
3. OK.
4. This 
5. too
6. will
7. pass.