The Art of getting what you want
by Vijay Peduru, Feb 22, 2010
Human brain has the tendency to avoid anything that it considers will cause pain. It reaches this conclusion based on instinct and/or past experience. This part of the brain is called the Lizard brain. The Possibilities brain seeks opportunity and freedom. When you want [...]
I’ve heard few authors say that they “found the time” to write their book! Time is not something you “find,” like a needle in a haystack (or, the New World).
Instead, time to write is something you create, and you create time using tools like planning, commitment, and efficiency.
Here’s a proven, 4-step process for making the [...]
Digital branding in the new internet marketing age is creating the need for marketers to understand how they can measure social media interactions with their brand, how to measure social brand loyalty and create social brand equity. Companies are more and more interested in learning how to make social media work. There are many assets [...]
Lately I have been noticing the interactions and communications in an organization a lot. It reminded me of when I studied for my Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, where the concept of communication paths, for which there is the following specific formula (N * (N-1))/2 where N is the number of people in the group, was [...]
Is your change leadership transforming your company into a front-runner in your market niche or turning it into aversion of Dr. Frankenstein’s monster? How do you even go about answering this question? What’s your reference point? Is it reliable?
Mary Shelley’s protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, combined with three project management principles, scope management, quality management and risk [...]
Before proceeding .. Please consider reading this Post from Seth Godin.
We all want to succeed in Business, want to get healthier and we know how to do it… but it doesn’t happen. Business is helping a group of people (niche) better than anyone else out there ( think Apple’s iphone). Health is just a change in [...]
Are you feeling helpless?
by Vijay Peduru, Feb 15, 2010
Going through the same situation repeatedly, unable to control it, and accepting to suffer through it is called Learned Helplessness. Once you understand this important distinction, you can recognize the situation and take action to unlearn it. Vijay illustrates this with an example of an experiment conducted [...]
The best way to achieve writing success is to cultivate the habits shared by successfully branded authors. As Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Les Hewitt wrote in their highly-recommended The Power of Focus, “Your daily habits determine your success.”
In previous Author Journey articles, I’ve described several of the habits that contribute to writing a [...]
Making and fulfilling commitments is the only way by which we can accumulate power and produce an identity in the marketplace which to a large part determines our value in the marketplace. Commitments (promises) are such a cornerstone to our lives yet we often pay little attention to how we manage them.
Business is about people [...]