How & Why To Stop Procrastinating NOW!

This article was written by Lisa Cox ~ Before you clicked on this article, were you scrolling through your Facebook news feed? Or perhaps you were watching those crazy cats on Youtube? Better still, did you spend an hour Googling ideas about how to make dinner – quickly? Seems a bit counterproductive doesn’t it. Before I wrote […]

6 Ways To Achieve Any Goal

By:  Molly Cain Remember that one glorious night not too long ago when you were pumped full of champagne and big ideas? You promised yourself that this would be the year you accomplish <insert goal here>, and you resolved to make it happen. And then you shouted something inaudible above the crowd to your friends, […]

Learn to Be a Conciliator

Conciliators make the world go around. Or at least function more smoothly. Conciliators have the ability to get people to get along with one another not merely as compromisers but as collaborators. Conciliation also works when things are broken. Then they become those who can reconcile aggrieved parties. “The main object of conciliation,” said Confucius, […]

Mind Mapping: 5 Ways a Visual Plan Can Energize Your Business

If brainstorming or business planning has become  uninspiring, try mind mapping to help stimulate creativity… Small-business owners thrive on ideas and plans. Didn’t your business start as an idea? And didn’t you create a business plan to help you launch that new idea? Now that your business is up and running, your plate is likely […]

Jobs are Over: The Future is Income Generation- Part 1

Author: Heather McGowan – Academic Entrepreneur + Innovation Strategist, June 20, 2014 This is part one of a three part series on the changing shape of employment, the emergence of the collaborative economy, and the potential impacts on higher education. The era of using education to get a job, to build a pension, to then retire […]