How Do You Shift from a Restricted Mindset to Thinking Excellence for Greater Success? In this briefing, I share a few tactics from my personal experience of exiting the realm of mediocrity to a mindset of excellence that leads me toward success. I also discuss some observations and principles that have been helpful in acquiring knowledge and acting on it....

Management skills tend to play a very important part in business. It is thanks to these skills that company directors can assign, assess and stay aware of the work completed by their teams. They decide, implement actions and take control of each situation. Their skills and roles should necessarily match their career ambitions. In this article, I suggest 10 skills in Business and Management to own in order to be productive and to be considered as a good Manager....

Just Keep Moving Forward....

Right from the start, look for quick wins, and do your best to achieve them. You have to find something you can do as soon as possible to show some quick positive results. This will lower the pressure you feel and help you get more confident. Also, it is important to secure these early wins because they help to build your momentum and establish your credibility....

Several of my readers have expressed some anxiety when it comes to getting their first chance. Many think they are hopeless, as they have never done it before. By not having certain socio-emotional skills and languages on their "psychological resume", they feel like they have an obvious flaw, as if applying for a job were like asking someone out. Given their lack of experience, others worry that their first opportunity will be a complete failure because they wouldn’t know how to handle it. So let's talk about that first time....

A few months ago, I left my job in order to become my own boss. Well, that's what I thought. But I could learn a few lessons from this experience that I would like to share. 1. Fun working When you do a job you love, it turns out that you do not really work. You have fun while learning and making money....

Monty Oum was the Bruce Lee of Digital Arts. That was the man who never slowed down, who always wanted his artistic life to be efficient, quick and as productive as possible. He was litterally a personification of motivation and determination, here are some of his best lines:...

There are some people who are willing to sacrifice almost everything, including their time, resources, sometimes even their social life, their sleep and some "normal" pleasures of life. All of that, in order to work hard and focus on their vocation, to improve things or try and make their world a slightly better place. Your grandparents had a word for that: Saints. Today we refer to them as Entreprenerds....

A fresher sent me the following query: Hi Necemon, thank you for accepting my invite. I am new to the IT field and I would appreciate if you could give me some guidance. Based on your work experience, can you tell me what companies look for in a computer guy ? I have heard about you from senior students at Christ University, I am in Bangalore and I like computer science but I do not know what to learn and how to begin. Actually, I think I like programming but I am told that the C language is no longer relevant, and I am also told about Ruby, C #, Python, etc. I'm confused....

A couple of years back I shared my reading list and wrote about the books I found most interesting. But then I have been reading some more over the past few months, here are my recent favorites:...