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The 7 Traits of Highly Effective Teams

As individuals, we can achieve many commendable goals.  However, significant, large accomplishments that have a major impact in a company, a community, or the entire world, can only be achieved with a group of people.  This article will explore success from a broader perspective, beyond the individual.  We will discuss the 7 traits of highly [...]

| January 17th, 2007 | Continued

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Feature Article #2

Corporate Career Success – How to Become CEO

For many people the ultimate success in a corporate career is to reach the most senior position in the corporate ladder, which is typically accompanied by a C-level title: CFO, CIO, CMO, COO, and, the top company title of CEO.  Reaching the top job in the corporate world requires many years of experience and several [...]

| November 4th, 2006 | Continued

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Feature Article #3

How to Increase Your Income

If you want to increase your wealth fast, and perhaps become a millionaire, but you have already maximized your savings rate and your risk-adjusted investment return , the only option you may have left is to increase your income (see article “How to Become a Millionaire”).   So how exactly do you increase your income?   This [...]

| October 22nd, 2006 | Continued

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How to Become a Millionaire

Would you like to have a million dollars?  For some people this quantity may seem unreachable.  However, if you live in a rich country, like the United States, even if you only have an average income, you can reach the goal of becoming a millionaire.  The quantity of one million dollars nowadays is not what [...]

| October 22nd, 2006 | Continued

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How Many Millionaires are There in the World?

The word millionaire is generally used to describe a rich person.  When we speak of a millionaire, we think about mansions, limousines and yachts.  But what is the most accurate definition of a millionaire?  The most recognized definition of a millionaire is a person who has financial assets of at least US$ 1 million, excluding the [...]

| October 16th, 2006 | Continued

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About this Site

How This Site Came About I have always been very interested in success and the knowledge and techniques used by successful people.  What I mean by successful people is not necessarily the celebrity type, or the guy with the mansion and the Ferrari.  I am talking about people that accomplish many great things, live a [...]

Mark Cuban on Startups

January 23rd, 2012 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

In the last article we provided you with Mark Cuban’s rules for success.   In this article we will focus on Mark’s rules of success for startup companies.  These rules are fully discussed in Mark’s eBook How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It , or you [...]

Mark Cuban on Success

January 16th, 2012 • • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

The hyper successful entrepreneur Mark Cuban has written an easy to read unconventional eBook that you can pick up at Amazon for just $2.51: How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It.  This is not your typical book – it is simply a collection of Mark’s [...]

Learn More About Tim Ferriss

January 9th, 2012 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, interviews Tim Ferriss, author of  The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman.  If you want to know Tim at a deeper level and get to know  more about his early days and what influenced him to become what he [...]

Why Some Entrepreneurs Succeed and Most Fail

January 2nd, 2012 • • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

Silicon Valley start-up companies and their entrepreneurs are the envy of many across the globe. I’ve been working in the start-up community for 15 years.  I’ve been a part of the stellar successes and the flops that no one remembers. Here’s a statistics that shows the hidden side of these corporate celebrities. Venture capitalists only [...]

Even the Rich Don’t Have Enough to Retire

December 26th, 2011 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

According to a survey published by CNBC, even the rich do not have enough money to retire.  Granted, the people the article is labeling as rich, or more precisely affluent, do not necessarily have the kind of money that would allow a person to live on caviar and champagne.   They call affluent any American who has [...]

Increase Your Chances to Get to the Top 1%

December 19th, 2011 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Do you want to be part of the top 1% of earners who have been recently getting  so muck flack by the bottom 99%?  If so, you are not alone.  One of the dirty little secrets kept by the 99 percenters that criticize the one percenter is that they would love to be part of [...]

Meet the Rags to Riches Millionaires

December 12th, 2011 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Rags to riches stories are my favorite.  There is so much to be learned from people who were at the bottom and were able to lift themselves and become successful.  There is so much hope in these success stories for every person out there.  If only our young people were more focused on learning everything [...]

The First Who Concept by Jim Collins

December 5th, 2011 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Continuing with our Jim Collins series, we want to share with you what is perhaps the most important concept in business.  If you master this and truly apply it in your corporate or entrepreneurial venture, you will most likely succeed. You probably have hear of Jim Collins, but if you have not, let me direct [...]

Jim Collins on Motivation

November 28th, 2011 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

In the last post we shared with you an interview with Jim Collins, author of the book Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All , conducted by Charlie Rose. We showed you some great insights from Jim on leadership, greatness, falling from the top, and motivation. In this post we [...]

Great Lessons on Success: Jim Collins Interviewed by Charlie Rose

November 21st, 2011 • • 2 comments • Related • Filed Under

Jim Collins, author of the book Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, was recently interviewed by Charlie Rose.  If you are truly interested in success, you cannot miss this great interview. In this interview Jim talks about leadership, greatness, falling from the top, and much more.  You can learn [...]

US States with Highest Percentage of Millionaire Households

November 14th, 2011 • • 2 comments • Related • Filed Under

About five percent of US households are millionaires.  Millionaire for the purposes of this article is defined as those with $1 million or more in liquid assets (which excludes retirement accounts and real estate).  If you are curious to know where these millionaires choose to live, Phoenix Marketing International analyzes national data to find which [...]

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