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3 Benefits of a High-Performing Culture. Reader Resource Position yourself for growth in 2017—join us live at the Entrepreneur 360™ Conference in Long Beach, Calif. on Nov. 16.

3 Benefits of a High-Performing Culture

Save $100 with Early-Bird Rates » Pity me. I’ve been a fan of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers since my father mandated it when I was six years old. Either I join him and the rest of the family, or spend Sundays alone. Their Head Coach Dirk Koetter recently said, "There’s something in our culture, and it’s my job to fix it, along with the coaches, of letting games like this get away. Clearly, something is missing for Coach Koetter. How we’ve used technology to drive Virgin’s success. 6 Tips to Improve Your Public Speaking Voice. When you speak, your voice is your most important tool.

6 Tips to Improve Your Public Speaking Voice

It influences the impact of your speech and can make or break its success. Fortunately, you can learn to use your voice, just like playing a musical instrument, to increase your power and persuasiveness in any conversation or speech that you give. All you need is a little bit of guidance. Watch this short video on how to improve your public speaking voice to get started. 1) Slow Down When you speak more slowly, your voice has more power and authority. You exude confidence and you lend your words greater importance. All powerful people speak slowly, enunciate clearly, and express themselves with confidence. 6 Tips to Improve Your Public Speaking Voice. Richard Branson: How to talk to investors about social impact. “The best way to address people’s biases and preconceived notions is head-on, reframing the debate,” the Virgin Founder says in a recent blog.

Richard Branson: How to talk to investors about social impact

“In this day and age, if some entrepreneurs and business leaders still consider the benefits of making a positive social impact to be difficult to qualify or impossible to quantify, or see that goal as an unwanted distraction from turning a profit, I beg to differ!” 7 Things Warren Buffett Can Teach You About Leadership.

Nine attributes of highly effective collaborators. Richard Branson: Four things to look for in a new hire. Life Labs - What can we learn from those colourful people who thrive, rather than simply surviving at work? 3 Warren Buffett Habits We Should All Adopt. Warren Buffett has grown from a boy who at 7 years old roamed the streets of Omaha selling bottles of Coca-Cola for a nickel to a man who now sits atop the Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A ) (NYSE: BRK-B ) empire he created, with over $525 billion in assets.

3 Warren Buffett Habits We Should All Adopt

Source: The Motley Fool. How Anyone Can Become a Good Public Speaker. The 4 Pillars of Great Leadership. 5 Ways Dreamers Can Become Doers. Maybe you’ve been called a dreamer your whole life—by others and by yourself.

5 Ways Dreamers Can Become Doers

However, saying you are a dreamer or a doer is like saying you are good or bad. Tony Robbins BlogThe Power of Leverage: The Principle of Maximum Achievement. What things are you doing right now that really aren’t that important?

Tony Robbins BlogThe Power of Leverage: The Principle of Maximum Achievement

Or, even if they are important, perhaps someone else could do them for you? If money is a factor, get creative. My top 10 quotes on leadership. How Hiring Single Moms to Provide Customer Support put Mindvalley in the Top 2% of all Support Teams - Mindvalley Blog. It’s not just our customers who inspire us.

How Hiring Single Moms to Provide Customer Support put Mindvalley in the Top 2% of all Support Teams - Mindvalley Blog

The people we hire for our team often have amazing life stories and experiences of their own, and we love discovering these because of how it has shaped them as individuals, led them to our door and put them side by side with our mission to help people lead happier lives and be extraordinary. A few years back we decided to expand our Customer Support team and open a support center in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is a hotbed for customer support centers with even major companies like Amazon.com having teams there. But when we opened up applications we noticed an interesting pattern. Companies overcoming challenges with creativity and camaraderie. The World Economic Forum recently outlined the trends to watch out for in the coming year, and the list could be viewed as very worrying indeed for any business that doesn’t relish a challenge.

Companies overcoming challenges with creativity and camaraderie

A lack of global leadership, deepening income inequality, persistent jobless growth and the rise of geostrategic competition were all highlighted at the top of the report. However, the sign of a great businessperson is to rise above problems and buck trends. Virgin has built its reputation as a challenger brand over five decades, taking on giants in sectors as diverse as travel, telecoms, music and finance. We’ve seen all sorts of market conditions, economic, political and crises and continued to adapt and develop along the way. The ability to welcome competition and take on challenges has certainly evident in the new Fast Track 100 companies. Management Secrets: Core Beliefs of Great Bosses. A few years back, I interviewed some of the most successful CEOs in the world in order to discover their management secrets.

Management Secrets: Core Beliefs of Great Bosses

I learned that the "best of the best" tend to share the following eight core beliefs. 1. Business is an ecosystem, not a battlefield. 101 Steps to Success - John Spencer Ellis.