I'm productive, am I?

Bringing all the ideas about productivity together, we may come up with a definition that goes a little something like this: Productivity means getting more done in less time by working smarter not harder.
This is all well and good, but how do we go about getting more done in less time by Working Smarter, Not Harder? Well, it’s a process. And Adam Sicinski explains it to us in his article The Productivity Process

 

The Productivity Process
by Adam Sicinski from IQ Matrix

 

http://blog.iqmatrix.com/productivity-process

4 Reasons Why Amazon and Facebook Are Gaining on Google

Interesting article and good reminder of the strongest entities in their respective zones of dominance : Facebook with social, Amazon with retail, Google with information and how they are gaining on each other.

 

"4 Reasons Why Amazon and Facebook Are Gaining on Google"

by Ellen Gipko from Search Engine Journal

Photo from Search Engine Journal

 

Google beat Yahoo and everyone else in its path. In fact, Google is now the most used search engine on the web and owns at least 67 percent of search traffic.
Over time, Google faced competition, if you can call it that, from Yahoo and Microsoft (which later became Bing), and that was mostly a battle for PPC dollars. Now, Google faces inspired competition from Amazon and Facebook. Neither is trying to simply copy Google. The battle is much bigger than that.
Here’s why Amazon and Facebook are about to make things more interesting.

Read article: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/4-reasons-amazon-facebook-gaining-google/120324/

Happy WOW day! The 3 P's to success

 

The 3 P's: What We Can All Learn From Top Female Entrepreneurs

by Maria Pinelli from Forbes

These exceptional businesswomen can teach us some powerful lessons.
And as today is Women on Wednesday (#WomenWOW), which aims to identify and support women-owned or women-led businesses, I am excited to share three common qualities of the world’s most successful female entrepreneurs.

 

Lesson 1: Purpose

Lesson 2: Persistence

Lesson 3: Passion

           
Read article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ey/2014/12/03/the-3-ps-what-we-can-all-learn-from-top-female-entrepreneurs/