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Words of wisdom and lessons learned from those who have been there. Covers a wide variety of areas from career to relationships to big and small things of daily life.
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The Daily Start-Up: VCs See Wisdom of the Crowds

The Daily Start-Up: VCs See Wisdom of the Crowds | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it

Venture capitalists continue to see opportunity to tap into the wisdom–or work–of crowds.

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Four Tips For Choosing The Right Business Shortcuts

Four Tips For Choosing The Right Business Shortcuts | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
Shortcut: Anything that anyone else can do better than you can; and admin/compliance tasks, In order to: Innovate in and around the core benefit you provide; and find, secure and serve customers
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Are you using the right shortcuts?

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Nine Lessons We Learned From Andy Taylor

When people in an organization see the organization’s leaders taking the time to teach, they understand that it is important and they learn to do it themselves. This culture of teaching starts at the top.

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It’s not about the perks.

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Four Lessons Amazon Learned From Webvan's Flop

Four Lessons Amazon Learned From Webvan's Flop | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 07: Mackenzie Bezos (L) and Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com May 7, 2012 in New York City.
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Could Amazon create the next (new and better) Peapod?

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Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos — HBS Working Knowledge

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos — HBS Working Knowledge | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
Creating an online ad that goes viral requires more than mere entertainment. Thales S. Teixeira discusses the key to creating megahit marketing through advertising symbiosis.
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Are you ready to make a successful video?

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Insights & Integration | Kilts Center Searching for a hit movie In the movie 

Insights & Integration | Kilts Center  Searching for a hit movie In the movie  | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
Searching for a hit movie In the movie The Internship (involving two ex-salesmen and their internship at Google), Billy McMahon, the character played by Vince Vaughn, notes “Sometimes the long shots pay off the biggest.” While this statement is...
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Are you ready to bet on the long shot?

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Your Next Business Challenge: Solve A Problem Shared By Many

Your Next Business Challenge: Solve A Problem Shared By Many | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
People get jobs by solving someone’s problem. People build businesses with systemic ways to solve a problem shared by many others
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Does your business idea solve a big enough problem?

 

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21 Reasons You Must Become an Expert

For years the search economy built by Google (and others) allowed many people to make decent money by simply executing on certain SEO tactics more efficient
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Where are you an expert already?

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Lessons Learned from the First Social Olympics

Lessons Learned from the First Social Olympics | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
Did you watch the Olympics? What an amazing time of unity, pride, and fun these past two weeks, right? I don’t know about you, but it’s just plain inspiring seeing the accomplishments of the athletes during the Olympic Games.
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Are you ready for the second social olympics?

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Redefining Alpha – 3 Fortune 500 Leadership Tips For Top Dogs

Redefining Alpha – 3 Fortune 500 Leadership Tips For Top Dogs | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
“People are going to be most creative and productive when they’re doing something they’re really interested in. So having fun isn’t an outrageous idea at all.
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Are you the new alpha?

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Authenticity – Life’s Secret Weapon | The TransForm Blog

Authenticity – Life’s Secret Weapon | The TransForm Blog | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
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Are you looking for authenticity or are you living it?

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How (And When) To Take A Risk: Graduation Wisdom From Netflix Co-Founder Marc Randolph

How (And When) To Take A Risk:  Graduation Wisdom From Netflix Co-Founder Marc Randolph | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
An avid rock climber, Marc Randolph notes that a climber’s path only becomes visible gradually, once the first steps have been taken and the climber is a few feet off the ground.
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Is risk part of your career today?

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3 Ways to Un-Busy Yourself: What Saying No Taught Me

3 Ways to Un-Busy Yourself: What Saying No Taught Me | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
It’s something I struggle with from time to time, but I override it by not tying my identity to accomplishment. Being un-busy is the kind of advice I wish I had learned years ago.
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When no gets you to yes.

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The Happiness Tipping Point

The Happiness Tipping Point | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
Happiness is not about smiley faces, unicorns and light-hearted merriment. Nor is it about self-proclaimed gurus and their self-help anecdotes of supposed enlightenment.
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Could you tip things toward your happiness?

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Overcoming Emotions That Hold Us Back

Overcoming Emotions That Hold Us Back | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
Emotions are a natural part of being a human being, and controlling them doesn't mean becoming a drone. However, how well we control our emotions drives how we treat others and ourselves.
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Are are the emotional drainer or drainee - and what will you do about it?

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The Only Way To Raise Your Salary

The Only Way To Raise Your Salary | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
The only way you can command a higher salary is to make your employer more money than anyone else who could do your job.You make money for your employer by producing profitable goods that will be
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Do you know your value? Can you measure it?

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The 4 Fundamental Pillars of Emotional Intelligence - Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement

The 4 Fundamental Pillars of Emotional Intelligence - Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
The basic view of emotional intelligence is that emotions aren’t necessarily the opposite of thinking, but a different way of thinking about different types of problems that exist in our world.
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How strong are yours?

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It's Not Just Semantics. Words Make an Enormous Difference in Leadership

It's Not Just Semantics. Words Make an Enormous Difference in Leadership | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
If you can't communicate clearly, you can't do business.
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How well do you communicate?

GIBS Information Centre / GIBSIC's curator insight, June 17, 11:46 AM

If you can't communicate clearly, you can't do business.

Stephan Hughes's curator insight, June 17, 10:51 PM

Managing is like teaching - it's all about getting the best out of those under your responsibility - not under you in terms of knowledge, though. 

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Three Things I’ve Learned From Warren Buffett

Three Things I’ve Learned From Warren Buffett | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
I’m looking forward to sharing posts from time to time about things I’ve learned in my career at Microsoft and the Gates Foundation. (I also post frequently on my blog.)Last month, I went
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Lessons from Warren Buffet? Why not?

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The Sippy Cup 1%

The Sippy Cup 1% | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
The more expensive strollers and cribs and organic diapers become, the better it is for everyone else.
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Is the baby market ripe for more?

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How Numbers Talk to People — HBS Working Knowledge

How Numbers Talk to People — HBS Working Knowledge | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it

In their new book Keeping Up with the Quants , Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim offer tools to sharpen quantitative analysis and make better decisions..

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Here's an excerpt.

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5 Tips on Staying Energetic as a Founder

5 Tips on Staying Energetic as a Founder | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
I am approached a lot by curious people who wonder how I'm always able to stay "energetic". That my energy is contagious - that I'm constantly smiling. They almost don't believe it. People
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Help a founder today.

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What I learned about business from Iron Man - Prodality

What I learned about business from Iron Man - Prodality | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
Who would have thought watching the action-packed thriller, Iron Man, would teach me so much about entrepreneurship and running a company?
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Business Success - Iron Man Style?

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Innovation Tips From Richard Branson, John Mackey, Bobbi Brown And Others

Innovation Tips From Richard Branson, John Mackey, Bobbi Brown And Others | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
The fundamental choice is whether to compete on price or on differentiation. Competing on price is a race to the bottom with no winners.
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How could the best innovatioini tips help you?

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Do You Have 5 Minutes A Day To Get More Productive?

Do You Have 5 Minutes A Day To Get More Productive? | What I Wish I Had Known | Scoop.it
Sarah Kauss founded S'well a company that makes superstylish stainless steel drinking bottles because the plastic variety clearly must go. In this new...
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Are you ready for better outcomes?

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Ten Lessons You Can Learn From Your Car

Cars play an important role in our lives, and since we spend a lot of time with them, it's only natural that we learn a lot from the ownership.
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So your car can do more than get you from one place to another?

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