If we can concede that ‘hype’ is unpredictable, and that watch prices have no underlying rationale such as defined supply/demand constraints, then we must agree that buying watches for potential financial gain is simply speculation.
Category: Performance
8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses
The best managers have a fundamentally different understanding of workplace, company, and team dynamics. See what they get right. Getty A few years back, I interviewed some of the most successful CEOs in the world in order to discover their management secrets. I learned that the “best of the best” tend to share the following…
Productivity Tricks: 3 Ways to Build a Smarter Routine
The highest achievers are strict disciplinarians. Use these three easy steps to boost your odds of success. Flickr photo courtesy of Vicky Sedgwick I am not ashamed to admit this: I am über Type A. I believe in “going hard or going home,” as they say, and pushing to the very end. As an entrepreneur,…
Why Working More Than 40 Hours a Week is Useless
Research shows that consistently working more than 40 hours a week is simply unproductive. For many in the entrepreneurship game, long hours are a badge of honor. Starting a business is tough, so all those late nights show how determined, hard working and serious about making your business work you are, right? Wrong. According to…
Will the next generation of MBAs be up to the task of running our great commercial enterprises?
FORTUNE — I dropped by a famous business school the other day to do what death eaters do when we go to feast on the souls of the young. We talk to them about our industry. We tell them how we got where we are today. Where am I today? At my desk, deconstructing a…
Beat the clock: Choosing the best meeting time
The best time for a meeting is 3:30 p.m. on Monday. That’s the verdict of Mark Ellwood, who runs Toronto-based consultancy Pace Productivity Inc., after analyzing extensive data he has collected over the years about people’s expenditure of time at work, through electronic devices called Timecorders that capture what they are doing. Mr. Ellwood started…
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