Last year I celebrated 10th anniversary of entrepreneurship. Over the past years, we (Atria Group) set up some procedures that are still being used, although they should not be. Some things are done only because someone worked like that before. And if we go back to the very beginning, many of these activities were once urgent,
During the 2009 and 2010, I had the great honor and pleasure to be Dr. Marilyn Atkinson’s (founder and president of Erickson Coaching International) teaching assistant at training “The Art and Science of Coaching”. At that time Marilyn was coming quite often to Belgrade. On one of her visits, besides open training, we
There are not many people who like sales calls. Actually, I know a few who like it. Salespeople, especially, don’t like “cold calls”, calls to unknown people. This is normal as facing rejections is not easy. Even when you don’t take things personally, hearing “no” many times during the day
Although it is common sense, there is much research that shows responsibility, optimism and positive emotions can dramatically improve our life in many aspects. From the decisions we make, the opportunities we pursue and people we connect with, to sales we’re recording and the level of performance at work.
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In the past couple of weeks, I had the opportunity to attend two football matches that had a similar set-up, similar dynamics and ended with almost identical results. In addition to many similarities, there were a couple of interesting differences.
These were matches of the younger categories teams (boys ages
I love chess. In elementary school I competed, however, since then, until a couple of years ago, I did not play it at all. Today is easy to find an opponent online and that does not require any special engagement, so I began to play it almost on a daily
15th of September 2018 marks the tenth anniversary of my entrepreneurship journey. Its seems like it was yesterday when I was thinking about leaving a safety of regional position in international company and starting my own business. Actually, I’ve never planned to be an entrepreneur. All I wanted in my professional
Few days ago, I started reading the book “The Black Swan” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Few chapters into it and I had the impression that someone slapped me, or really shaken up my beliefs. In short, Nassim uses the term “black swan” for everything that is unknown, for mankind, for science,
As a coach I support my clients first to understand the drive behind any objective they bring and only then to develop a strategy and to take committed action in order to achieve what they really want. “Work-life balance” is one of the regular topics that clients bring to coaching sessions.
Many successful professionals talk about importance of focus. They manage to maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. Jack Canfield says that successful people stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need