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A self-employed consultant I worked with some years ago once told me: " Being self-employed, I work 12 hours a day, and worry the other 12 ." This is the lot of both self-employed professionals and small businesses owners.  You awake each morning only to stare your boss straight in the eye as you shave or put on makeup.  You're it.  You're the one with the weight of your business squarely on your back. The question becomes, how do you manage yourself so you don't burn yourself out?  Even if you absolutely love what you're doing, the never ending grind of running your enterprise can and will take a toll on your home life and your health.  Unless you learn to manage yourself. This paper from the University of Central Florida points out two simple ways of not taking home your work stress. Walking daily. Getting adequate sleep. Additional benefits based on other vetted research clearly shows that daily walks and adequate sleep are also key to keeping your creativi...

It's a given: how a business owner treats his or her employees is how the employees treat the customer. It goes further.  how a business owner talks about his or her business effects how the employee views the business and their job. What do you say about your business?  Are you upbeat with  positive view of your goals and what you are trying to accomplish?  Does a negative attitude toward your customers and employees color your speech?  Or worse, are you vague and nonspecific about what is in your enterprise for customers and employees. It's part of the discipline of running a business to keep any negative emotions and opinions to yourself, and to present a positive, confident persona. *  *  *  *  *  Picture this: How the language of leaders drives performance The language of leaders has a profound effect on the performance of their employees, new research shows. The research shows that how a company presents its vision and values is de...

Source:  themajors.net What should you do when an employee leaves. . . and later asks to return? It may be an emotional instinct to react by rejecting their request to return. But why?  If you take it as a personal rejection when an employee leaves, you may be cutting off your own nose to spite your own face. As these studies from the University of Illinois point out employees leaving then asking to return may just be offering you a big compliment to the way you do things.  Perhaps they thought they'd be better off elsewhere only to find they were well off where they started.  Not a bad message for other employees to hear if nothing else. Boomerang Employees   Organizations of all types are beginning to recognize and embrace the value of recruiting and welcoming back former or boomerang employees. From infantry soldiers to chief executives, accountants and professional basketball players, many organizations proactively recruit and rehire former employees as a wa...

  Source:   DESIGN SNIP | DESIGN, MARKETING AND INNOVATION As has been pointed out  many times, too much knowledge is a bad thing. Why? Research by John-Erik Mathisen & Jan Ketil Arnulf of the BI Norwegian Business School from among other studies shows that graduates with a Masters in Business Administration demonstrate LESS creativity than non-MBA graduates. The reason is simple: our educational system focuses on training students in logically linear thought processes, while creativity and innovation involves lateral thinking, seeing connections between seemingly unconnected ideas. For example, before Einstein linked them, physicists from the time of Newton saw little if no relationship between energy, E, and mass, M.  In his 1905 paper on optics Einstein showed the specific relationship in his equation E=MC2, the relationship being the speed of light squared.  Big idea, perhaps the biggest of the twentieth century. Had Einstein relied on his knowledge of e...