Today’s science fiction is often tomorrow’s innovation. Whether you’re talking about hoverboards, self-driving cars, or retinal scanning, you can point to sci-fi stories in which the idea appeared long before someone started working on it in reality. Read More
If you want to get rich, start investing — and do it sooner rather than later.
When you’re young, your biggest asset is time, thanks to the effects of compound interest. Read More
Last summer on a family vacation in the Catskills, it occurred to me that I should take our kayak for a spin. Number of times I’d thought this before: at least a million. Number of years the kayak had been in the family: 16. Number of minutes I had spent in it: zero. Read More
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It’s hard to stand out unless your business literally has zero competition. Even if you enter a market without any competitors, it’s likely only a matter of time before someone else emerges to threaten your position, so it’s unwise to bank on pure model distinctions for your core differentiator. Instead, you have to put some effort into defining yourself as a unique force in the market. Through new technology or innovative new practices, you can start to build yourself as a distinct establishment. Read More
Want your employees to get more done? Tell them to make themselves scarce. That’s the disturbing finding of a new survey by FlexJobs, an online service for professionals seeking flexible or telecommuting jobs.
Of the 2,600 employees who answered the survey, only 24 percent reported getting their best work done at the office during business hours. The rest said they were most productive nearly anywhere else. Fifty percent said they did their best work at home, 12 percent preferred a coffee shop, library, or other public space over the office, and 14 percent said they could be productive at the office — but only outside business hours, when everyone else was gone. Read More
One of the best things about Android is that apps have a lot more freedom compared iPhone apps.
Some of the most innovative Android apps are exclusive to Android because they do something Apple simply wouldn’t allow. Read More
A small number of Airbnb customers appear to be using the service for hookups.
Airbnb is unlikely to endorse such behaviour, but some users told Business Insider they had slept with people or been hit on as a result of transactions that were facilitated through its platform. Read More
So, if we are going to talk about productivity we need to get one thing straight from the outset; busy does not equate to productive.
Try this experiment; go around for a day and ask colleagues, “So, what did you dotoday?” Most of the answers will be along the lines of, “A lot, it was a busy day; non-stop action, meetings, phone calls, the usual!”
That kind of question and answer tells me nothing about what was actually achieved. If anything it proves the point that being busy is often such a distraction that it obscures what we actually may have achieved. Read More
The famous playwright Oscar Wilde summed up the essence of experience when he stated that, “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” And it’s a given that anyone starting and running a business is going to make mistakes.
New businesses require skills in a wide variety of disciplines: from accounting and strategy, to marketing and legal; from human resources to product/service design. And as businesses grow in people and resources, company founders gain the ability to delegate some of these roles. Read More
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