SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

Ideas are exchanged between people and groups of people during numerous interactions on a daily basis. This could be in a business meeting, during a classroom session, during a college group assignment, etc. One soft skill that is required during such interactions is the ability to accept other people’s ideas. This does not necessarily mean agreeing completely with what other people have to say, but accepting that those ideas are viable, logical, and even actionable. Below, discover why you should be more open to other people’s ideas. 1. No one has a monopoly on good ideas In the business world, it is said that no one has a monopoly on good ideas. The same can be said of social interactions. No one person or group holds all the ideas. Every person and any given group of persons has the potential to provide good ideas at any given time, even those you least expect. You should, therefore, consider other people’s ideas because they could be quite helpful. You never know. 2. Leadership req...

BLOCKCHAIN HYPE VS LOYALTY BUSINESS NEEDS  Consider today's problem... You take a flight to see family for Christmas, and you earn some frequent flyer miles...You buy a coffee from Starbucks once or twice...You fill up with fuel from a Shell station, and sign up for their fuel rewards program...You purchase something at a store and the cashier gets you to sign up for their rewards program. And then... you realize that you have all these orphaned points and miles from loyalty programs which you don't use regularly, and none of your reward accounts has enough points to redeem. In fairness - other than being persuaded to enroll - you haven't changed your purchase behavior to buy more from any of them - they were all purchases that you would have made even if they didn't have a rewards program. But now you have a combined 200 points from all of them - and darn it! - they're your points and now you're wanting to buy a flight on a different airline for a family holida...

There’s an enormous amount of research suggesting that emotional intelligence (EQ) is critical to your performance at work. I have seen some tested the EQ of more than a million people and found that it explains 58% of success in all types of jobs. People with high EQs make 20% - 30% more annually than people with low EQs. Ninety percent of top performers have high EQs, and a single-point increase in your EQ adds money to your salary. I could go on and on. Suffice it to say, emotional intelligence is a powerful way to focus your energy in one direction with tremendous results. But there’s a catch. Emotional intelligence won’t do a thing for you if you aren’t genuine. I would like to share A recent study from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington found that people don’t accept demonstrations of emotional intelligence at face value. They’re too skeptical for that. They don’t just want to see signs of emotional intelligence. They want to know that it’s genuine—...