Many people aren't aware that when they begin to make a name for themselves, they are creating a brand… and what’s more, that brand becomes hard to change once it’s become established in people’s minds.
A polite act shows respect. But a new study of a common etiquette -- holding a door for someone -- suggests that courtesy may have a more practical, though unconscious, shared motivation: to reduce the work for those involved.
Tips and tools for professional development include making your aptitudes and accomplishments more visible.
These need-to-know basics should help you consider whether a joint venture is right for you and your business.
Studies reveal that in the dog-eat-dog, look-out-for-Number 1, highly-competitive business world, only the aggressive, risk-taking alpha male can expect to succeed as an entrepreneur.
To truly tap into your creative nature, you only have to realize one thing...
We all know that getting a good night's sleep is good for our general health and well-being. But new research is highlighting a more surprising benefit of good sleep: more feelings of gratitude for relationships.
You might think that a loving partner helps keep you on track -- say, when you want to stick to your jogging or concentrate on your studies.
A reader recently asked, “How can an achievement-motivated workaholic learn to back off, relax, de-stress, and feel good about doing it? I am too driven!”
The trope that the likelihood of an accurate group decision increases with the abundance of brains involved might not hold up when a collective faces a variety of factors -- as often happens in life and nature.
Research suggests that overall happiness in life is more related to how much you are respected and admired by those around you, not to the status that comes from how much money you have stashed in your bank account.
For many freelancers, success and more income come from nurturing and deepening relationships they already have. Here are some ways you can do this.
Fame is attention -- and with enough attention you can generate passive income. Monetizing fame is actually pretty easy.
How do ideas spread? What messages will go viral on social media, and can this be predicted?
This advice is geared towards small business owners, particularly people who are just starting (or about to start) their own business.
Do you have difficulty saying “no”? Are you always trying to be nice to others at the expense of yourself?
Some lessons that apply equally to getting buff and to building your business
Contributors get noticed and attract new friends and opportunities easily, and contributing is much easier than you might assume
It turns out passion is not as elusive as we think.
The people around you dictate your success. They can also forecast our failure.
Happy individuals are predisposed to seek out and undertake new goals in life and this reinforces positive emotions, say researchers who examined the connections between desirable characteristics, life successes and well-being of over 275,000 people.
It is a beautiful thing to create, to produce, to go out there in the world and make a contribution. But it is just as important that we teach others to create and produce, that we encourage them...
Happily ever after isn't a given.
Our attention is often pulled in too many directions, leaving us feeling overloaded, distracted, chaotic, spread thinly, without focus. So what can you do?
How does someone else’s success mean anything bad for you?
Members of a group or team will work harder when they're competing against a group with lower status than when pitted against a more highly ranked group.
Unconscious motivation plays a substantial role in how we respond to challenges. Find out how much.
If you think having loads of money, fetching looks, or the admiration of many will improve your life -- think again.
Extraversion does not just explain differences between how people act at social events. How extraverted you are may influence how the brain makes choices -- specifically whether you choose an immediate or delayed reward, according to a study.
Starting a business is a lot of work. Anyone who tells you it's not is either lying or has never actually started one themselves.