Keyword: leadership
19 inspirational quotes on the art of negotiation
The art of negotiation One major part of a successful business is negotiation. As such, the art of negotiating is an essential skill of the modern business pro. But negotiating isn’t always so easy, as it is generally a trait that has to be developed rather than an inherited trait. Whether you are about to meet at the negotiation table ...
Can your leadership change business or even the world?
Conceptualizing leadership I’ve become somewhat obsessed with the idea that leadership, in its truest sense, is a function of clarity and change. One of my favorite quotes is by the somewhat controversial George Bernard Shaw, who maintained that, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all ...
2011′s Genius50 Power Moves
AGBeat is proud to present 2011’s Power Moves in housing, technology, mobile and business as the year of growth and perseverance comes to an end. We’ve covered and followed 2,232 stories this year and have highlighted the top power moves of the year, both positive and negative. In 2011, despite one of the worst economic climates many of us have ...
New 2012 AGBeat media kit available now
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10 digital business books to download for Androids
Goals for 2012 With the new year approaching, one of your resolutions may be to better your business or even finally create and found the business of your dreams. One of the best ways to become inspired and motivated is to learn from the greats that came before, the small business professionals who have made something of themselves and their ...
Commercial real estate pro founds non profit to help wounded troops
Luke’s Wings help wounded warriors Fletcher Gill is the Vice President of Montview Realty Advisors, and is Luke’s Wings Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Founder, but from all accounts, it seems he’d rather not be in the spotlight. Gill is a has a B.S. in Accounting and International Business from Penn State and as seen in the ...
Adopt the 7 traits of successful entrepreneurs to inject youth into your company
No hoodies required When someone says successful entrepreneurial traits that could inject youth into your company, who do you think of? If you said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, you’re in the majority, and you’re probably wondering if you should start wearing hoodies, jeans and flip flops to the office or drinking Red Bull and vodka while you work late into ...
Five videos on how to be more creative in your professional life
Becoming more creative isn’t about painting The above video demonstrates that creativity is so much more than doing yoga or getting your paintbrush out, no, creativity comes in many forms. If you’re interested in refining your creativity be it business creativity, artistic or marketing creativity or creativity in problem solving, take some time to find one or more of these ...
Business advice from Babe Ruth that all leaders should mind
The great Babe Ruth All good leaders pull from a variety of inspirational sources to create their formula for success, even from unlikely sources like an overweight baseball legend. Babe Ruth was a winner in his day without steroids and without the paparazzi and while he wasn’t a business leader, he hustled every day to be the best. Today, we ...
How resilient leaders survive in a destroyed economy
Frustration in business In a down economy, most businesses suffer. Some adapt and some fail. In hard times, most professionals look around them and wonder what happened to the pipeline they had so carefully built over the years. Many look like the fisherman above and feel like there are plenty of fish but they just aren’t biting. It is at ...
Lessons in leadership from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings
Netflix chooses an uphill battle Netflix recently split their streaming services from their DVD mail delivery services and increased the prices, but have upset many by completely splitting the services, even spawning a new company for the DVD deliveries, Qwickster. Although the price for the services combined was relatively low, low enough for many people to ditch cable in favor ...
Real estate associations, Realtor members and their unique challenges
It’s no wonder that Realtor professionals are placing more and more pressure upon the associations tasked with connecting them to the latest and greatest technologies. The hysteria caused by the rapid growth of Zillow and Trulia along with the surge of mobile technologies, social media, and the idea of do-it-yourself real estate empowered by the likes of Google and popular ...
Becoming a better broker – six lessons from J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler
The eternal pursuit of improvement In my mind, what separates true leaders from the pack is the eternal pursuit of improvement. In an era where Twitter has made some appear to be leaders and conferences have propped up egos, it is the elite few who are focused on this pursuit of improvement that are true leaders. They may not be ...
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