Your office environment can have a profound effect on your creativity, especially if you work from home. If you have a home office, you need to do everything you can to keep it as separate as possible from the rest of your home, so you don’t find yourself distracted by thoughts of laundry or other. Continue Reading

The discussion on creativity has evolved in recent years. While some people may still persist in believing that only a select few of the population are creative geniuses, many others are beginning to recognize that we are all creative beings, and many of those considered creative geniuses were actually just people who gave more time. Continue Reading

No matter how small your business starts out, there are always going to be more to-do’s on your list than you have the time to complete. That’s why you have to get smart about outsourcing the work that doesn’t require your signature touch. Essential to running a lifestyle business is recognizing your core competencies and. Continue Reading

We all want to be more productive, but what do we do when we can’t even get started?  We have a great plan, we’re ready to go, but each day our start date seems to get put off another day.  Is this procrastination? Resistance? Whatever it is, despite all of our productivity techniques, we’re getting. Continue Reading

Doing More In Less Time A lot of our time is wasted running our business inefficiently.  Often it’s just because we haven’t thought to stop and figure out how to improve our efficiency.  My old software company developed a business process optimization and workflow tool for large transaction-intensive organizations. This was a tool designed to. Continue Reading

Productivity and Value Productivity is one of the keys to a CorePowered business.  In a traditional job you are typically paid based on the amount of time you spend at work, i.e. by the hour, annual salary.  One of the big switches for an entrepreneur is the realization that you are paid (or should be,. Continue Reading

According to a recent study by the Center for Women’s Business Research (Oct. 2009), US women-owned firms generate $3 trillion in revenue annually.  This equates to more than 23 million jobs, or 16 percent of all US jobs!  To get an idea of the magnitude of this, if US based women-owned businesses were their own country, they would have. Continue Reading