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Chapter 1. Achieving Success Through Effective Business Communication

10 Tips for Creating Remarkable Success: An Interview With Tim Storm

Remarkable people seem to create remarkable businesses. It would be quite easy to create a list of top CEOs who run "normal" businesses, but much more difficult to create a list of remarkable businesses that truly stand out.

In today's tight economy marketplace, standing out, being different, being better -- is what it's all about. If you want to succeed, being remarkable is the only way to go. Today's Inspirational Luminary, Tim Storm, founder and CEO of FatWallet.com is just that and more.

How to Stop Being So Hard on Yourself

Why are you so hard on yourself? Over the last two weeks I've been exploring this.

What can you do about it? A lot.

The opposite of Perfectionitis is what researchers call "healthy striving." Studies show that healthy strivers set realistic goals that are the natural next step from where they are now. You can too! Go ahead and way you can work smarter, not harder.

What Is Web 2.0?

What Is Web 2.0?

It's one of the biggest buzzwords out there, but what exactly does it mean? Andy Gutmans of Zend defines Web 2.0 and explains how it's changing the face of the Internet. Host: Andy Gutmans.

Super Easy Ways to Filter Information and Declutter Your Mind

Let's face it, whoever said technology was going to make our life any easier was lying! From where I stand, I see we are busier than ever trying to keep up-to-date with our email inbox, our twitter pages, our Facebook accounts, our offline friends and least not forget our family.

Quite frankly, our minds are cluttered beyond recognition. It comes as no surprise that so many people snap at the drop of a coin. This constant time demand coupled with the immediacy of communication these days, makes us feel like shutting down means not caring, not participating, and well, getting left out.

Your Mindset Can Determine Genuine Success

Your "mindset" may determine genuine success. Mindsets that are characterized by a commitment to growth, flexibility and adaptability continue to develop your brain and develop reservoirs of untapped potential. They are the key to continual learning and success.

Your Computer in 2020

What's the most fascinating shift that computing is creating in our lives? You might think it's just "smaller, better, faster," but there is an even more dramatic story about how computing is changing who we are as people and a society.

Thanks to the wonders of technology, the idea of managing two distinct lives has become common for many of us. We have always had the first life--our physical existence, the one we can't escape until we die. But today many of us have also adapted a second life. We have long had the opportunity to invent ourselves through media, historically through writing. We could invent a new self. Yet our first lives remained dominant for most of us.

Doing Battle With Procrastination? Here's How to Win for Good

All you procrastinators out there – even those of you who told me not to write about this because you'd no longer have an excuse! – listen up. Here's my four-step battle plan for beating procrastination right into the ground:

The Internet of Things

The Internet of Things

Over the past century but accelerating over the past couple of decades, we have seen the emergence of a kind of global data field. The planet itself -- natural systems, human systems, physical objects -- have always generated an enormous amount of data, but we didn't used to be able to hear it, to see it, to capture it. Now we can because all of this stuff is now instrumented. And it's all interconnected, so now we can actually have access to it.

So, in effect, the planet has grown a central nervous system. Look at that complex set of relationships among all of these complex systems

The Emily Post Institute: Everyday Etiquette

We have answers to your questions on table settings and table manners, invitations, thank-you notes, attire for all occasions, how to address people, and manners for special places and occasions.

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Damage Control: Communicating Under Stress

Given enough pressure, even the most articulate communicator can wind up screaming at a coworker or avoiding an interpersonal problem. And we all know who gets to deal with these stressed-out workers -- human resources. Which is, of course, stressful.

In this article, we'll take a look at what happens to our communication when stress enters the office, how and why it does, and how we can prevent it from disrupting our work relationships.