Happy New Years Outliers Family! Can you believe another year has come to end? As students, parents, entrepreneurs, over-achievers or even for the newly reformed slacker, we owe it to ourselves to make this year count. Don’t miss out on all your 2016 has to offer, and the chance to re-evaluate your goals! There will be naysayers, echoing the criticism about this annual practice, but we wouldn’t miss the chance for the world. There’s just something about starting fresh on January one. Even if you have to look at them again in February, and again in June. As a quick aside, if you find you are … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2015
Make Up Your Mind Day- 5 Tips for Settling a Matter
I don’t know about you, but somedays I just get stuck in my own brain. Decision like “vanilla latte or coffee with cream?” can seem mind-numbing. With dazzling menu-like options before you everywhere, New Year's best sales competing for your attention, and the internet's lanscape of options, making decisions on how to best spend your time and talents can be a daunting task. Would you believe there is a day dedicated to the difficulty of deciding what we want? It has the most clever name - Make Up Your Mind Day; I wonder if they had a hard time deciding on that? This day is appropriately … [Read more...]
Turning Lemons into Lemonade
From Chapter 11 “Perspective” in Ingredients of Outliers. Lemons? Or Lemonade? You’ve probably heard this century-old bit of wisdom about perspective: “If life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.” Although it didn’t originate with him, the late Dale Carnegie, well-known writer, lecturer and selfimprovement guru, commented on it in his book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. First published in 1946, the book is still in print today, with more than six million copies sold in dozens of languages. “The fool,” he wrote, “if he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says: … [Read more...]
SPACE RACE Innovation Challenge
DECEMBER 22, 2015 The Medical Center of the Americas Foundation has partnered with the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), a nonprofit organization based out of Bethesda, MD focused on accelerating commercialization and creating new entrepreneurial platforms and is leveraging the new Startup NASA initiative, which offers startups the opportunity to license patented NASA technologies with no upfront fees. Startup NASA helps address two of the biggest challenges faced by startup companies: raising capital and securing intellectual property rights. The SPACE RACE will also help the Paso del … [Read more...]
Advancement of Veteran Owned Businesses
SIMI VALLEY, CA DECEMBER 23, 2015 The Veteran and Military Business Owners Association (VAMBOA), a 501(c)6 non-profit trade association, is proud to join forces with the National Veteran Business Development Council (NVBDC), the leading third party certification organization for veteran owned businesses. Together, the two organizations are working towards advancing certification for service disabled and veteran owned businesses (SD/VOBs). VAMBOA founder Debbie Gregory said, “Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the brave men and women who have worn our country’s uniform. In the private … [Read more...]
Keeping Customers Happy
Pages 124- 126, from Chapter 11 "Perspective" in Ingredients of Outliers The Almighty Customer Ask anyone in business, from the proprietor of the corner convenience store to the CEO of a multi-national corporation, what the key to the success of that business is and the answer to your question is likely to be “customer satisfaction.” Entrepreneurs and corporate executives brag about their customer service in such terms as “knock their socks off,” “outrageous,” “unexpected,” “above and beyond,” etc. The headline of a feature article in a recent issue of SUCCESS magazine (August 2012) … [Read more...]