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ON CAREER GROWTH
Worried about holding your own in Corporate Politics? There are short reels on YouTube by Robert Green who explains the 48 laws of power in a succinct way.
The career path is not always straight forward, sometimes you have to do what it takes to learn an entirely new industry, it requires a blend of leveraging existing skills, maintaining a learner's mindset, engaging directly with operations, and collaborating with a skilled team. Bellis's journey illustrates that with these strategies, one can navigate and succeed in unfamiliar sectors.
This social psychologist explains: laziness does not exist only unseen barriers do. Remember to take the few minutes of listing and breaking down your workload into specific steps are essential to avoid procrastination and increase productivity.
Being calm, balanced and still is an essential quality for any true professional. The book “Stillness is the Key” by Ryan Holiday, explains that “stillness” is the key to success in every aspect of life.
What ensures productivity and success at work is not necessarily intuitive, achieving the optimal routine does not mean you have to over do it, check out these “workplace paradoxes”.
The competition is real, it is important to make a good lasting impression on the interview and stand out amongst the many candidates for the position. Read ‘How To Be More Memorable In Your Next Job Interview.’
These days earning a certification rather than a degree might be more cost effective for upskilling, as well as being an equally if not more legitimate way to be recognized as a qualified candidate. (The article in the link offers a comprehensive look at the changing landscape of workforce development, making it valuable for HR professionals, organizational leaders, and those interested in macro trends.)
Life-long learning is essential for success, there are free resources such as TradePub that offer valuable publications on industry knowledge and industry skillsets.
Companies hire both generalists and specialists for optimal teams, generalists being all-rounded, cross-functional professionals, and specialists who have very specialized expertise and specific skillsets, companies will always need a balance of both.
Career setbacks are normal, the majority of us will experience it/ have experienced it at some point, what is important is how to overcome such setbacks and here an expert explains 4 ways how to overcome.
Not all of us will follow a monolithic traditional path to success, sometimes you have to switch industries to go further in your career, read this to know how you can maximize opportunities in a non-linear career path.
What works at the workplace can be counter-intuitive to some people, for example working hard and pushing yourself to the limits isn’t always the answer, here are some important principles that serve as a reminder on how to better approach work.
ON BUSINESS BRANDING AND STRATEGIES
Want some advice on how to build a Sales deck? Read the ‘5 things needed for a brilliant sales narrative’ and more.
SEO alert! Check out this update from Google. Google is inserting ‘page annotations’ and says it ‘extracts interesting entities from the webpage and highlights them in line.
Are you still struggling to define your niche? Try Google trends to help evaluating different markets
"Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster" by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz is a highly-recommended practical guide to using data strategically and drive start up growth. It’s especially valuable for those navigating uncertainty and seeking product-market fit.
Check out ‘3 Game Theory Tactics’ explained:
What outcome would be best for both parties and how can we achieve that?
Sunk Cost Fallacy
Minimize your maximum loss - Minimax Strategy. (What is the worse case scenario for me? What can my opponent do to make me worse off? What's the best strategy against that?)
PR is essential for growing small businesses. Here are some PR strategies for small businesses.
CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is the lifeblood of any company, Notion is becoming an increasingly popular tool and can be leveraged to create custom optimal CRM systems for your business.
Businesses have to present their numbers to stakeholders in a variety of scenarios at least on a quarterly basis, here are 10 Excel tips to make your spreadsheets look stunning and professional.
People skills and presentation skills are essential in engaging customers, it might be the very factor that will successfully close the deal or help you persuade the client to see further value in what you can do. There are some habits to keep in mind that will help you become more likeable in business.
In the 2025 economy, small businesses will run into even more challenges to survive and thrive, political instability is making it difficult for businesses to make decisions and define their strategy. At the very least, it is important to focus on cost reduction strategies.
Marketing plans need to be updated and adapt to the current trends, businesses that appear outdated or out-of-touch will get less attention from online communities, an expert recommends these basic tactics to evolve with the market.
The $100 startup is an excellent book that covers the basics of defining your sales strategy: chiselling the value-add and solution your product or service offers, understanding the target audience you should focus on and get in front of, not wasting money and time on elusive or illusory ideas, and not missing opportunities. In the book Chris Guillebeau interviews various successful solopreneurs who made it happen. After the book, you can discover more resources on the website from the same author.
ON SOFTWARE TOOLS
AI’s hard limitations have already been discovered, AI requires power - lots of it. Also the AI industry seems to have hit the diminishing returns regardless of how much more data they use to train it.
Cursor by Anysphere is an AI-powered code editor that has rapidly become one of the most successful SaaS products in history, achieving unprecedented growth and adoption in the software development community.
Excel continues to be the most important tool of any company: and this is why. If you're not maximizing the analytics value of Excel in your day to day, it might be time to take a course on improving your Excel skills.
Cybersecurity is a necessary subject for all IT and business professionals. Become aware of all the recent cybersecurity trends and news, to see what you really need to watch out for.
Planning to create your own tools? Here are the best app ideas for 2025.
Given the level of automation available these days, we can create our own basic software tools without too much coding. GitHub Spark lets you build web apps in plain English.
Whether Corporate Real Estate or management of larger organizations likes it or not, remote working is becoming more normalized, tools to collaborate online are becoming more important, check out the best online collaboration software for your remote team.
Many are not aware that in 2025, Google has deleted tools that they consider are no longer valuable to users and less profitable, here is the list of tools that are no longer available and why.
Many apps/ SaaS platforms are being upgraded with AI integrations, users can benefit from some of these effective AI functions to enhance their workflow within the app and get the results they are looking for more efficiently, check out these common and effective AI integrations.
To optimize and scale your business and decide on strategies, you will need good data analytics and analysis tools, the following are recommended data governance tools that you can start leveraging to gain insights.
Here is a quick checklist for small business owners to ensure they have the essential software for running their business. These 5 types of business essentials are usually adopted by fully fledged small businesses to enable smoother and more efficient operations.
The CRM is the core of any business, you can ensure you provide a better customer experience with these tools, and use them to streamline your management of all renewals, escalations, feedback, etc. The data analytics capabilities will also help you get the real feedback you need for your product/ service and process.