Management, Books and Learning

9 Helpful Tips To Deal With Negative People Do you have any friends or colleagues who are negative? If so, you’ll know they aren’t the most enjoyable people to be around. Negative people can be real downers in any conversation. No matter what you say, they have a way of spinning things in a negative direction. Some negative people can be so negative that it feels draining just being around them. I’ve dealt with a fair share of negative people in my life in network blogs basically surrounded   by   unknown   people whose feedback   is not   relevant   to   me,   and   who   do   not   professionalism   in   their   feedbacks. I was initially taken aback by negativity of the people, I eventually learned to manage it and channel it into conscious action. Today, I deal with negativity on-and-off in my personal development work, especially if there are readers or coaching clients in distress. Rather than b...

Eat, Pray, Love  -  Elizabeth Gilbert About the Author: Elizabeth M. Gilbert , 47,   is an American author, essayist,short story writer, biographer, novelist,and memoirist .  She started her career as a journalist.Her books have received several notable prizes. Why this Book: The  memoir  of how she left behind all the outward marks of success, and set out to explore three different aspects of her nature, against the backdrop of three different cultures:  🍲 pleasure in Italy,  📿 devotion in India, and  💓a balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence  on the Indonesian island of Bali. "One Woman's Search For Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia"   Story of the book: A travelogue to Italy, India, and Indonesia. It’s also a trip into self-hood, an attempt to understand who she is and what she wants in the wake of a broken marriage.    Elizabeth Gilbert t...

4 Lessons in Staffing From the Apple Store Apple is running a seriously smooth operation in their retail stores. Each employee has a distinct role to play, understands that role, and does his/her part to deliver the level of service we’ve come to expect from this powerful brand. All of this requires serious alignment of brand, business goals and people process. Finding the right people to work in the stores is half the battle. There are things that Apple’s retail arm does particularly well in organizational development–things any organization could learn from: 1.                      Make Work Meaningful. When your employees know that what they’re doing matters, it’s easier to inspire them to do their best. And no one appreciates this more than the employees staffing the stores, who are on the front lines of the customer relationship. Apple would be hard-pressed to deli...

4 Important Lessons About Failure From Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran This article is courtesy of  BusinessCollective , featuring thought leadership content by ambitious young entrepreneurs, executives & small business owners. Embracing fear and failure is  a key component of becoming an entrepreneur . You need to take a leap of faith to be a success in the startup world, and no one knows this better than Barbara Corcoran. Despite her $80 million net worth and tremendous success as a businesswoman and TV personality, “Shark Tank” star Barbara Corcoran is no stranger to failure. She received straight D’s throughout her academic career and held 20 different jobs by the time she turned 23. But that all began to change in 1973 when she cofounded a real estate business that flourished into an exceptionally successful company. In 2001, she sold her business for $66 million to NRT Incorporated, the largest residential real estate brokerage company in the U.S. C...