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Rethinking Workplace Values & Virtues

April 4, 2013

 

Interview with Jake Breeden, author of the book Tipping Sacred Cows: Kick the Bad Work Habits that Masquerade as Virtues

 

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Mike Carruthers:
In our quest for success in the workplace we embrace certain ideas that maybe need a 2nd look. An example is creativity.

 

Jake Breeden:
Creativity is a virtue in some cases. But in other cases creativity is just an excuse for narcissism.
 
Jake Breeden

Want To Be Rich? - Part 2

April 3, 2013

 

Interview with Lewis Schiff, author of the book Business Brilliant: Surprising Lessons from the Greatest Self-Made Business Icons

 

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Mike Carruthers:
1 huge difference between wealthy people and middle class people is the way they look at negotiation. Many middle class people love the idea of a win/win.

 

Lewis Schiff:
Almost everyone who has a real background in negotiation says win/win is a possibility but only if you’re willing to cut it off if your minimum needs are not being met. 
 
Lewis Schiff

Want To Be Rich?

April 2, 2013

 

Interview with Lewis Schiff, author of the book Business Brilliant: Surprising Lessons from the Greatest Self-Made Business Icons

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Would you like to be wealthy? There’s something you can do that wealthy people do that almost always helps.

 

Lewis Schiff:
Ask for more money. Ask your boss, go to your landlord and ask for less rent. There’s all sorts of ways to ask.
 
Lewis Schiff

Should You Start A Web Business?

December 11, 2012

 

Interview with Scott Fox, author of the book Click Millionaires: Work Less, Live More with an Internet Business You Love

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Starting your own internet business for many people that does sound attractive.

 

Scott Fox:
Anybody can take a shot now you don’t have to have gone to the right schools, you don’t have to know the right people or have millions of dollars in venture capital or a computer science degree from Stanford. You can do on and set up a blog yourself.
 
Scott Fox

Where Good Ideas Come From

October 26, 2012

 

Interview with David Minter, co- author of the book Lightning in a Bottle

 

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Mike Carruthers:
To generate new ideas, organizations like to brainstorm - that is get a group of people together to throw out any and all ideas...

 

David Minter:
Terrible - it's an absolute recipe for disaster.
 
David Minter

Real Risks Of Entrepreneurship

September 6, 2012

 

Interview with Tory Johnson, author of the book Spark & Hustle: Launch and Grow Your Small Business Now

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Starting a new business is often considered very risky.

 

Tory Johnson:
The truth is what’s riskier? To me risky, I learned risky was I assumed that some employer was just going to always be there to just give me a paycheck – that’s pretty risky.
 
Tory Johnson

Get Your Emails Read By Others

August 24, 2012

 

Interview with Ron Cates of Constant Contact

 

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Mike Carruthers:
People don’t read email the same way they read a letter on a piece of paper. When you send someone an email…

 

Ron Cates:
They spend two to two and a half minutes and they scan it. They look at the upper left of the screen the most that gets the most view "heat." Then they look at headlines and a couple of sentences below…
 
Ron Cates

What To Do If You Want To Be Wealthy

July 4, 2012

 

Interview with W. Randall Jones, author of the book The Richest Man in Town: The Twelve Commandments of Wealth

 

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Mike Carruthers:
If you were to ask 100 of the wealthiest people in America how they achieved that wealth you would find that virtually all of them claim they have found their "perfect pitch."

 

W. Randal Jones:
They've found the thing that they were hard-wired to do and discovered a way to commercialize it.
 
W. Randall Jones

New Style Of Entrepreneurship - Part 2

June 20, 2012

 

Interview with Chris Guillebeau, author of the book The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

 

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Mike Carruthers:
If you haven’t actually done it I bet you’ve thought about starting your own business. And interestingly it’s the starting that’s the hardest part.

 

Chris Guillebeau:
For almost everyone that we’ve talked to it was much easier actually to ramp up an existing business even if it was very small than it was to start the business in the first place.
 
Chris Guillebeau

New Style Of Entrepreneurship

June 19, 2012

 

Interview with Chris Guillebeau, author of the book The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

 

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Mike Carruthers:
There’s a new style of entrepreneur emerging and you may be the perfect candidate.

 

Chris Guillebeau:
You know these days you can start a business without spending a lot of money, without a lot of lead time or prep time. A lot of the people that we talked with for the study their primary motivation was freedom and they wanted to more of what they love whether that was through fulltime business or just through a side project.
 
Chris Guillebeau


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