Greatest Hits: 5 Tips for Running a Fearless Business
When it comes to success, there are so many thought-provoking sayings. Consider this one: "The length of our life is finite, but its wideness depends on us." This philosophy just means that our purpose...
View ArticleWrite Your Own Rules
HOW TO SET POSITIVITY IN STONE What personal habits would you like to change? Be they home, work or health related, I'll bet you would see value in instilling some automatic practices that help you...
View ArticleShared Plates: Bring Friends and Family along on Your Healthy Eating Journey
The buddy system works. It works for kindergartners crossing the street and grown adults trying to lose a few pounds and live a healthier life. If you've ever worked with someone else to reach shared...
View ArticleDebating Bezos
Editor's Note: Our Fall 2018 cover story on Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos was a primer on how sticking to well-defined foundational principles can lead to entrepreneurial achievement, but also on...
View ArticleAction Plan
1 GET PREDICTABLE Doubt over predictable income scares too many people from joining the YouEconomy. This weekend, take time to sketch a plan to keep checks rolling in from the same clients at regular...
View ArticleThe Doctor Will See You Now: Mehmet Oz Has Spent a Decade Teaching Millions...
Dr. Oz is like ginger ale. Mehmet Oz, M.D., can relate to anyone. That's why his wife, Lisa Oz, calls him a ginger ale person. Because he's the perfect mixer. She recalls a time early in their marriage...
View ArticleThe Tale of the Tape: A Story-Telling Pro Explains the Power of Stories, and...
We were in the minivan. I was 12 years old, traveling north with my family down rural Minnesota roads on the way to our small lake cabin for the weekend. The scene in the van always looked the same. My...
View ArticleA Moment with Peter Yobo
NEWJERSEY BORN AND RAISED IN GHANA, THIS FORMER UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOOTBALL PLAYER IS ON A MISSION TO EMPOWER AFRICA. * "Ghana has a special hold on my heart. It is in Ghana that I was...
View ArticleSeeing Is Believing: Your Self-Image Dictates What You Will Become
The great Mark Twain was quoted once as saying that humor is the good natured side of truth. That's why we can't help but laugh sometimes in the toughest situations. Gallows humor has a place. It can...
View ArticleChoose for Yourself
File this one under the category of Really Weird and Gross Science: According to research published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B this summer, a mind-controlling parasite found in...
View ArticleFree for All: Understand the Patterns That Lead to Financial Freedom
Anyone can get lucky and win the lottery. Anyone can pick a winning stock from time to time. But if you want to achieve lasting financial success, you need more than just the occasional lucky break....
View ArticleSocial Buzz
[VIA TWITTER @SUCCESSMAGAZINE] "The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only...
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I don't have time. I'm too tired. I don't want to fail. These are the most common excuses people make for themselves. We all have to face different hurdles--tight budgets, full schedules, competing...
View ArticleBreaking the Code: Black Girls Code Is Changing the Face of Technology One...
Kimberly Bryant is a nerd. Her 19-year-old daughter, Kai, is a geek. For Bryant, there's a subtle yet important distinction between the two words. "I was never the geeky kid," Bryant says. Growing up,...
View ArticleManage Workaholism
It goes by many names: the hustle, the grind, going all in. Entrepreneurs wear their long work hours, dark under-eye circles and stress-induced weight fluctuations like badges of honor. We look up to...
View ArticleAsk the Results Guy
Q: I'm having some success with my new business, but how do I make sure it grows sustainably? A: Benjamin Franklin's great advice still applies today: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."...
View ArticleChoose Joy: 3 Ways to Make Your Happiness Intentional
As kids, most of us were very clear about what did and did not make us happy. Play outside? Yay! Go get ice cream? Of course! A brand new puppy? Yes, please! What happened to us? As an adult it can...
View ArticleRADICAL GENEROSITY: Unlock the Transformative Power of Giving
RADICAL GENEROSITY Unlock the Transformative Power of Giving By M.J. Ryan In Radical Generosity, M.J. Ryan describes a common "ledger sheet mentality" that views giving, whether of yourself or a gift,...
View ArticleThe Neverending Summer of the G.P. Crew: Every Year, Five Men Return to the...
They fall to the dance floor during sha-la-la, tumbling backward on middle-aged spines and kicking their legs like waterbugs. There are five of them, all in their 40s and able-bodied, surrounded by an...
View ArticleIT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE CRAZY AT WORK: How Collaborative Problem Solving...
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE CRAZY AT WORK How Collaborative Problem Solving Changes Lives at Home, at School, and at Work By Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson The 40-hour work week doesn't always...
View ArticleMAKE TIME: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
MAKE TIME How to Focus on What Matters Every Day By Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky In a world obsessed with getting more done, there's no lack of books available on time management. But few explain it...
View ArticleYou'll Thank Yourself Later
GETTING OLDER DOESN'T HAVE TO SUCK. FITNESS PHENOM JILLIAN MICHAELS OFFERS A SELF-CARE GUIDE TO LOOK BETTER, FEEL BETTER AND LIVE A LONGER, FULLER LIFE. Did you know there is nothing in our genes that...
View ArticleSurvey Says ... Entrepreneurship Is the American Dream
Eighty-five percent of small business owners believe being your own boss and owning a business is achieving the American Dream. A nearly identical 84 percent of more than 1,000 U.S. small business...
View ArticleMy Way
WHO? Harris Faulkner, anchor of Outnumbered and Outnumbered Overtime on Fox News WHERE? New York City WHAT? Faulkner has climbed the ranks from Fox News correspondent to become the only woman of color...
View ArticleThe Laws of Human Nature
THE LAWS OF HUMAN NATURE By Robert Greene The author of five international bestsellers, most notably The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene looks into ways we can examine our own behavior, and also that...
View ArticleThe Daredevil Inside: Seeking Death-Defying Adventure Built Courage for This...
The door to the airplane banged open. I looked down and saw a lake, a checkerboard of farms and ribbons of gray roads stretching across rural southern Michigan. There was a man sitting to my right. I...
View ArticleCuriously Powerful
PURPOSE IS NOTA DESTINATION SET IN STONE. KEEP SEARCHING. We all want to live in what I call a universal assignment, the point at which your talents, skills, abilities and gifts intersect with a void...
View ArticleThe YouEconomy in Action: MEET THE COMPANY THAT IS REDEFINING THE REAL ESTATE...
After the real estate crash of 2007, broker Glenn Sanford set out to create a more sustainable enterprise--one where the real estate mantra "location, location, location" was set aside in favor of a...
View ArticleAttention Solopreneurs! Our New Columnist Has You Covered
They can't fire you YOU QUIT! Congrats, and welcome to the YouEconomy, the growing movement of passion-pursuers, free time-framers, dignity-defenders and money-makers. In an era when the relationship...
View ArticleConvenience Is King: A Revolution in Customer Service
There's a reason they call it a convenience store--because it's convenient! Customers who shop at convenience stores know the selection is smaller and the prices are often higher yet they still come in...
View ArticleTop 5 IT Firms Hired over 37,000 People in Q2, the Highest since Sept 2015
The quarter ended September was a great one where IT companies were concerned, at least in terms of net employee hiring. In fact, it was the best since September 2015, when the industry was at its...
View ArticleLeaderspeak
Q. The biggest challenge you faced in your careerA. Being an optimist, I consider challenges as opportunities to learn, grow and reinvent. I firmly believe that challenges help shape the legacy you...
View ArticleNo Electronics Please
Wi-Fi cannot be everywhere, all the time, in spite of attempts to ensure seamless, always-on connectivity. Still, there are objects for which connectivity is especially empowering. A group of...
View ArticleTough Times Ahead
Tough times continue for India Inc. and the economy at large. The Indian economy has been buffeted by rising global oil prices and widening current account deficit, leading to a sharp fall in the value...
View ArticleA Marketplace for Rental Businesses
The FoundersHarsh Dhand, an IIT-Delhi postgraduate, teamed up with Oxford MBA peers Abhijit Shaha and Karandeep Singh Vohra (they are no longer with the company) to start a peer-to-peer rental platform...
View ArticleThe Big Gainers
YEAR 2018 has been quite momentous for the Indian modern retail story. While homegrown retailer DMart surprised the market with its high valuations, Kishore Biyani-owned Future Group invested in...
View ArticleOn Cusp of Change
Over the last 15 years, Odisha has been single-mindedly focused on fast GSDP growth and becoming the country's top aluminum and stainless steel producer with the help of big investments. The efforts...
View ArticleConsumer Sentiment Takes A Hit
Who is feeling good about the economy? Not consumers for sure. All recent consumer confidence surveys have largely reiterated that point. The Reserve Bank of India Consumer Confidence Surveys are...
View ArticleBeat the Big C
Are you aware of the triggers that may heighten the risk of developing cancer, often referred to as the Big C? Awareness and self-examination are crucial even though you are young and healthy as...
View ArticleCaught in the Middle
Kamal K. Sharma, Advisor and former vice chairman of India's second-largest drug company, Lupin Ltd., uses the transformation of India's two-wheeler market to explain the ongoing global disruption that...
View ArticleBest in Business
With the spike in air pollution outside, many of us turn to indoor air purifiers for succour and the Mi Air Purifier 2S, from the house of Xiaomi, can be considered a great buy for its smart...
View ArticleOut of Charge
India's electric vehicle story (EV) is unravelling fast. Electric car sales in fiscal 2018 declined 40 per cent - just 1,200 units, even as the government is pushing for at least a third of all new car...
View ArticleBarrelling Through
After ordering nine million barrels from Iranian suppliers, oil companies in India can't find domestic insurers to back the decision. The US has only offered replacement of cargoes from Saudi Arabia to...
View ArticleA Mixed Start
September quarter earnings have been mixed so far with no major disappointments or surprises. Net profit of 126 BSE500 companies that had declared results as of October 26 evening rose 14.1 per cent...
View ArticleSteal the Deal
Of the three iPhones announced recently, the iPhone XR is the most affordable. The basic 64 GB variant costs Rs 76,900, about Rs 23,000 less than the new flagship XS, again the 64 GB version (we...
View ArticleThe Peripatetic Indian
In Kottayam, Kerala, two young men from Uttar Pradesh wash a dozen cars a day. The owner of the car wash charges Rs 200 a car and gives them half and a room to stay in, they inform me. Elsewhere in the...
View ArticleThe Makeover Saga
Storied government enterprises are either too glorified or too harshly criticised by those who care to document them. But this book is not just another memoir penned by a retired bureaucrat about his...
View ArticlePermission Denied
Tech giants such as Google and Facebook, it seems, have finally brought user privacy to the forefront. Apple, with its stricter developer policies, has always been seen as a safer platform compared to...
View ArticleChinese Checkers
When China decided to crack down on some of its most polluting industries in 2017, which also included many blast and induction furnace steel plants, steel export from the world's largest producer...
View ArticleOn A Winning Streak
The Rs 35,218 crore-FMCG behemoth, Hindustan Unilever, is on a high. Not only has the company's average market capitalisation seen a close to 50 per cent jump in the past year (from Rs 2,10,631 crore...
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