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There is a common school of thought that if you want to "get rich", you must work a longer than 40 hour workweek. Of course there is another school of thought, popularized by Tim Ferriss, that working a 40 hour workweek is stupid and that you can "get rich" working...
According to Gallup, 71% of American workers are either not engaged, or actively disengaged, at their work. What does "engaged" mean? You know what it means. Gallup defines it as "emotionally disconnected from their workplaces and are less likely to be productive"....
Recently I was listening to a radio show where they were reporting on Jennifer Anniston's recent remodel of her house. She and her husband were doing things like relocating entire stairways, adding on multiple wings, etc. The entire cost of this little remodel was $21...
I took all the experience I have as a business consultant over the last 20 years or so and came up with the top three things I see companies do wrong. While these do apply to large companies, I usually refer to small and medium-sized businesses, since that's where...
Ready for an amazing stat? The average American 25 year-old has already had an average of 6.3 jobs. Six friggin jobs! Isn't that incredible? Here's where things get really interesting. If polled, the average American age 21-30 plans on having only 2-5 jobs in his or...
A while back I talked about the effect music has on your productivity. Today I'm going to discuss in more detail how I use music in my normal workday. Classical Music For Preventing Mistakes Obviously I take my own advice, and when I'm working on things where I need...
We human beings have a very curious perception of time. Experiments and analysis have shown that when people wait for something for up to 90 seconds, their perception of how much has elapsed is accurate. If someone is waiting in a bank line for 60 seconds, and you...
Everyone is different. Everyone will have different goals in life, often radically different. Everyone will want a different amount of money, a different looking family, a different career, want to live in a different place, etc. This is normal and it's probably for...
Holy shit. The green bar above is the entire GDP of Germany. The blue is the entire GDP of the Eurozone. The red is Deutsche Bank's current derivative exposure. Isn't that nice? Let's put this in perspective. Germany is considered, probably correctly, Europe's...
You probably already have a spam filter of some kind for your email. The challenge is when you need to look through all that spam for something you really wanted. How many times have you been expecting an email that was really important, didn't get it, and then...
This is part of an ongoing series on how I digitized my entire life a few years ago. Nowadays, I do not have any paper, nor CDs, nor binders, nor DVDs; none of that stuff. It's all digital, baby! My initial post on this is right here, followed by how to digitize...
Alan Weiss told a very interesting story a while ago. A local coffee shop had a glass case that displayed all of their tasty treats to passersby. One day, the display case exploded for one reason or another. (I didn't really know that glass display cases exploded, but...
It never ends. Congress just fast-tracked $1 billion of American taxpayer cash to bail out Ukraine. But as usual, the money isn't going where you think it is... Not a single needy Ukrainian will see a penny of this money, as it will be used to bail out international...
Here's something you didn't know. We all know Captain Crunch, the breakfast cereal that many of us (at least most of us Americans) grew up on. We all know Captain Crunch himself, because likely you grew up watching his commercials as a kid and seeing his big face on...
It is one of the great paradoxes of my existence. I don't drink and have never been drunk in my life. I never do drugs. I don't gamble (with the exception of blackjack). I'm an introvert who hates big parties, dance clubs, and loud bars. I never have sex with hookers....
Joe Girard (a man I've talked about before) is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the world's greatest salesman. During the 60s and 70s, he sold something like 13,000 cars, and broke national sales records for 12 years in a row. One of his essential...
In thermodynamics, entropy represents a system's progression to what scientists call thermodynamic equilibrium. That's a fancy word for saying "no energy"; or if you like, death. Entropy is a natural law of the universe. It means everything is in the slow process of...
I have a rule I operate by whenever I do business with anyone. It might sound a little strange when you first hear it, but over the years it's provided me plenty of money, helped me to avoid mountains of stress, and yielded hours of saved time. It applies when I work...
The Index of Economic Freedom has just released its 2014 numbers, ranking all the countries in the world based on the overall freedom level of their citizens. The criteria they use are rule of law (property rights, lack of corruption), limited government (government...
Customer attrition is normal in all businesses. No business can expect to keep 100% of its customers for years and years. Many times, losing a customer is something completely outside of your control, and may have nothing whatsoever to do with the quality of the...