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Written by Stephen Shapiro
Many years back, I led classes on Stephen Covey’s “Principle Centered Leadership” for Accenture’s managers. Over 75 percent of the attendees said that achieving balance in their life was their number one reason for taking the course. This is not surprising given the fast pace of life today. But what does balance mean?
Balance implies two opposing forces that reach equilibrium. This is not easy to do. Remember when you were a kid trying to balance with someone else on a seesaw? Either you were up or you were down. But rarely were you balanced. In life, either we are working hard or playing hard at any given moment. But we rarely are in balance. And when most refer to work/life balance being out of alignment, it is typically not because they are enjoying too much play and not enough work.
Maybe balance is not the solution. So what’s the alternative? Integration.
Find ways of integrating your work and personal life together. In doing th ...
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Written by Michael Halper
Being able to build rapport with potential prospects will be a very valuable skill when trying to launch a new business. This is important because not only do people buy from people they like, but also because having rapport will greatly improve an entrepreneur’s ability to control and manage an opportunity through a sales cycle. Below are a few tips that can be used to try to positively trigger rapport with prospects.
1. Display Humility
Finding times to display humility can sometimes establishing a friendlier atmosphere when dealing with prospects. This might actually sound counterintuitive as we have always been taught to act very confident and assertive as an entrepreneur and showing humility in many ways is the exact opposite of that as it is showing that you are modest and at times imperfect. You certainly want to be confident in whom you are, in the products you sell, and confident in the company you have built. But to sh ...
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The PowerPoint Broadcast Slide Show makes it easy for PowerPoint 2010 users to share a presentation on the fly with anyone, anywhere. Just send a link, and in one click everyone you invite will be watching a synchronized view of your slide show in their Web browser, even if they don’t have PowerPoint 2010 installed.
To broadcast your slides to an audience, follow the directions below.
Starting a broadcast
To start a broadcast from PowerPoint 2010, click Broadcast Slide Show on the Slide Show tab.
Ensure the PowerPoint Broadcast Service is selected and click Start Broadcast.
Sign in with your Windows Live ID. (If you use Hotmail, Live Messenger, or Xbox LIVE, you already have a Windows Live ID. If not, it only takes a minute to sign up.)
PowerPoint will provide a public link that you can send to up to 50 remote attendees. Anyone who receives a link to the broadcast may watch it. Keep in mind that if an attendee forwards the link to someone else, that person ...
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Shortcuts are generally good:
When training to do heart surgery? Not good.
When developing software that helps people be more productive? Not good.
When using software more efficiently? Good.
These last two are obviously related: When the developers of Outlook created the program, they did not take shortcuts so that you, as the user of aforementioned software, could. And Outlook has a bevy of really great, really easy to remember keyboard shortcuts that you should know if you want to speed up your everyday interactions with it. (Keyboard shortcut: individual keystrokes—or combination of keys pressed at the same time—used to execute commands.)
10 favorite Outlook keyboard shortcuts from some people who use the program all day, every day
Switch between Mail, Calendar, and Contacts
Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3: (Mail is Ctrl+1, Calendar is Ctrl+2, and Contacts is Ctrl+3)
Create a meeting request
Ctrl+Shift+ Q
Move a message from one folder to another
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Log into http://register.agnitek.com
Click on the Domains header in the left menu
Click on the Manage Domains link
Click the [M] icon just below the domain you want to add ID Protection to
Click on the green ID PROTECT button
Check the box to show that you understand that ID Protect order are non-refundable, then click on the Order Now! button
Click on the Proceed to Payment button
Complete the order by filling out your billing information.
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We have just pushed out ManageIT definition update 2.06.030 from testing to stable on the distribution server. Your next ManageIT CheckIn should pick up this new version.
This update includes:
• Update Mozilla Firefox Rapid Release branch from v8.0.1 to v9.0
• Update Mozilla Firefox 3.6.X branch from v3.6.24 to v3.6.25
• Java Run Time 7.X branch from v7 update1 to v7 update2
• Java Run Time 6.X branch from v6 update29 to v6 update30
• Update iTunes from v10.5.1 to v10.5.2
• Update Safari from v5.1.1 to 5.1.2
Look for updates for Adobe Reader 9.4.7 and a build of Thunderbird yet this week. If you have any questions on the changes in this version or anything else with ManageIT please feel free to contact support or call 888-4-AGNITEK.
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No, I’m not talking about having a party but rather one of the hottest topics in technology today. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is becoming an absolute factor in almost every business today. Your employees, vendors, and guests all probably bring some type of personal communication device or their own notebooks to your workplace every day. Many employees are using their own devices to connect to your business networks, if for nothing more than the receipt of your corporate email. So why is BYOD a hot topic?
Many companies provide their employees laptops and smartphones to serve as their business computing and mobile communications devices. The business owns those devices, and as a result, the business can control the security of those devices and any business data that the user had downloaded to them. When Blackberry was a standard, Blackberry server handled many of the business security concerns present in mobile devices. Today, we see that burden of security falling back on the business and their IT d ...
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