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Your attitude is the reason you’re poor

The Next Web

Is your attitude holding you back from success? Why your bad attitude is losing you money. Researcher Barbara Fredrickson, who I talked about earlier in this article, discovered the tipping point between negative and positive attitudes is a three-to-one ratio. I’ve always been a big believer in positivity.

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Finally, A Clear Shift in Attitudes About Measuring Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I spent a year co-writing on a book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” with measurement guru KD Paine because I felt strongly focusing on vanity metrics such as follower counts or Facebook likes was a waste of time. With shifting attitudes, the skills and will to get past hurdles in measurement follow.

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Best New Leadership And Business Book Of 2020

Eric Jacobsen Blog

This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership and business book for the year. I selected this book because Magnuson tells it like it is, provides clear, practical, actionable advice and speaks with authenticity and in a conversational style that will resonate with young career professionals. Magnuson : So much!

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Top 3 Trends to Fool Proof your Future Fundraisng

NetWits

3) The Shift in Donor Attitudes. If you look at the shift in fundraising over time from door-to-door to the phone, mail, email, the Web and social media sites, you will also be able to see a fundamental shift in donors’ attitudes. We think this will be a huge change from now through 2016 and beyond and want you be ready for it.

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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

.orgSource

I interviewed Hugh for, “Association 4.0 : An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” a book I wrote with my business partner Kevin Ordonez. We selected this group because, as independent business owners, they were acutely aware of the challenges of digital markets and the attitudes needed for success.

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What the Vietnam War and the Stockdale Paradox Can Teach Us About How to Face 2022

The MatrixFiles

Jim Collins , the author of several of my favorite business books ( Built to Last and Good to Great ), got to know Admiral Stockdale at Stanford University many years ago. Keeping my team and my family focused on what we CAN control : our work, our attitudes, our routines.

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The 5-star rating system is terrible for gig workers. Here’s a simple solution

Fast Company Tech

Ratings were conditional on having a job completed, so any customers who held more explicit racist attitudes may have already cancelled. If you leave a four-star book review, you’re not telling someone to read 80% of the book, yet many platforms allow for the evaluator to create their own rubric for what it means, explains Botelho.

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