Blogelist Business Hacks

Forgot how to focus? Maybe the reason is the fever of multitasking. For decades this "skill" was praised, but now we know it harms memory retention (even causing memory loss), increases stress, and lowers IQ.Does multitasking make you dumber? What Multitasking does to your brain? These and other questions were answered by authors like Cal Newport and Nir Eyal. In this episode, we give you an answer in 7 minutes.

Making a business plan for a small business in 2021, with the reopening of the economy, requires more than ever a certain tool. A tool long used for anyone asking how to write a business plan: the PESTEL (or PESTLE) analysis.In this episode, you will understand how the PESTEL model can help you to write a business plan for startups, cafes, restaurants, or nearly any business that faces challenges of uncontrollable variables. If your questions are about how to make a business plan for beginners or for a proposal, than this video will give you the resource you need to use this tool also called PESTLE.

Among leadership skills training topics, it is unusual to ask what business can learn from the military. But a legendary field marshall from Brazil can offer you some of the greatest leadership lessons from a general in history!In this episode, leadership skills training topics converge with business lessons from military strategy using the example of the Duke of Caxias, also known as The Peacemaker. He is one of the responsibles for the unity of Brazil as a single country

Do you have a micromanagement problem at your workplace? In this video, I will tell you how to reduce bureaucracy in business. Unless you live in some dystopian reality, your situation is similar to what John Seddon described as plagued by control thinking. The solution he proposes (and that worked for hundreds of his customers) is called systems thinking. An interesting, scientific-based approach in answering the question about how to defeat bureaucracy.

You have a great idea for a product or service. It’s so good, that you think you can start a new business and eventually thrive because of this idea. That’s great and all, but the last thing you should do is rush into this without doing a bit of market research. And by doing a “bit” of research, we actually mean doing extensive” research. Not doing your market research is a sure way to doom your business before you even get it off the ground. You need to know the nature of the business as well as figure out who your target demographic is. And don’t rely on basic public data – this simply isn’t enough. Here are the following ways that you can do research in order to prepare yourself to properly start a business.

Today I'm going to share with you how the teachings contained in the Incerto Series from Nassim Nicholas Taleb helped me to save my business during the pandemic economical crisis (which maybe was not a black swan).The Incerto is a series of books composed of 5 volumes: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder and Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life