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Money motivates people only if you don’t pay them enough to want to do the work in the first place. After that, there are three factors that lead to better performance and personal satisfaction: Autonomy, Mastery and Contribution. The embedded animated video is a great watch.

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Book publishing is an archaic industry long over due for a revolution. In this Internet age, when information is instantly available from anywhere on the planet, it doesn’t make sense to go through a long publishing cycle only to have a product that is already dated. Books should be a work -in-progress of constantly enhanced and updated material. Books need to be a community, not a static product. While there are many experiments with the new mode of publishing, Leo Babauta of ZenHabits, latest book Focus is most likely going to be one of the early large scale successes.

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RSS feeds and blogs are a good fast way to get content but there is definitely a need for professional level content somewhere in the middle between magazines and blogs. Micro-magazines are a great opportunity for aspiring publisher/ entrepreneurs. This format is also likely to reach a much larger audience of readers who are not comfortable with social media yet.

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Economic success is no longer a product of the scarce resources you control. The only real differentiation arises from the quality of ideas and your ability to command an audience.

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Companies, bloggers and authors are not giving away free content, they are buying attention. That is what social media marketing is, free content.

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If your business is struggling maybe it is time to start implementing new business models. Actually, the time was probably a lot earlier then when you noticed the problem.

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Business Model Generation is a brilliant idea.
“Business Model Generation practices what it preaches. Co-authored by 470 Business Model Canvas practitioners from 45 countries, the book was financed and produced independently of the traditional publishing industry. It features a tightly-integrated, visual, lie-flat design that enables immediate hands-on use.”
Business models are such an integral part of the [...]

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