The 4-Hour Workweek has another great post about productivity and how it was implemented by some other companies.  It includes a picture of a whiteboard in an engineering firm on how to stay productive:
There is also a great checklist that another company implemented on tips that they recommend for their employees.
One of the [...]

Interesting article in Wired about the future valuations of Google vs. Apple. As of today, Apple’s market valuation has surpassed Google’s, which basically means that investors see Apple as a better future investment than Google.
What the Wired article pointed out was that Google made $10B last year compared to $8B for Apple and on [...]

The internet is a curious thing. Not only can your website make some great money for you while you run it, it can also make money when you decide to sell. Just like physical properties, web properties can fetch quite a bit of cash during the resale process, and we’d be happy to take a [...]

If you take time out to seriously consider all that is involved in running a business, you will find that the most prominent tasks and traits are multi-tasking and organization. These are the same qualities that define most Project Management jobs. You have to know what is going on in each aspect of your business [...]

A book that I would highly recommend in assisting you in being successful with your business is David Allen`s Getting Things Done. Allen`s 43Folders, GTD concept has swept the nation and caught the attention of The New York Times among others and has transformed the way that people deal with the “stuff“ in their personal [...]

There are a lot of different business models out there that you can use as a foundation upon which to build a business. But creating a business requires more than just a formulaic model and a systematic approach. It also requires a lot of creativity, inspiration, hard work and individuality. You need to know your [...]

As the person who has the last say in everything that happens in my business, I, like all other business owners, run the risk of trying to micro-manage every last detail. One of the greatest lessons that I am learning is that I must simply let some things [...]

I used to wake up every day and hate going to work. I had to wake up hours before I started work in order to get the kids ready for school, get myself groomed and breakfasted and ready for my lengthy commute – a commute that took me to a place that I didn’t want [...]

As a business owner, it is tempting to wear many hats at one time and take care of all the departments by yourself with some help from employees. Speak to any successful businessman and he is likely to tell you that this is a mis-step which you should avoid. Of course, this does not mean [...]

There was a time when I would wait anxiously for my email client to download my emails every few minutes and add to the list of unread emails in my inbox. With a bit of self analysis, i realized that not only did it cause me un-necessary stress, I got little else done in those [...]