Important skills to acquire or improve


Smooth interpersonal relations

Writing and editing skills

Writing

Grammar testing:

Copyediting

Sales 

Various videos:

Sales trainers:

Schools of selling:

Sales process steps:

Selling a service:

Focus

Miyamoto Musashi:

Prioritization[edit]

Productivity

Organizational skills

Time Management and Prioritization

Managing emails:

Time orientation:

Reading speed:

Helpful Time Management websites:

Entertainment vs. education/productivity:

Being more productive via developing greater concentration/focus[edit]

Project management skills

Project execution:

Free project management software:

Paid project management software tools:

Resiliency, tough experiences and overcoming obstacles

Videos:

General articles:

Books:

Mental Toughness

Therapism

The notion that human beings are fragile and permanently damaged by traumatic experiences.

Books:

Models

Peter Clough and MTQ48:


Dr. Jim Loehr:

Adversity quotient:

General

Dealing with adversity:

Coming back after facing adversity:

Dealing with difficult people

Testing via adversity

Beyond mere resilience: Thriving in adversity and being antifragile

Marketing

Various niches:

Marketing a service/product

Marketing strategies and tactics

Branding and brand repositioning

Persuasion

Asking questions:

Spreading ideas

Changes in marketing[edit]

Publicity and newsworthiness

Public relations in combination with other types of marketing as far a influencing public

Book marketing/publishing[edit]

Writing a book to market your expertise

Small business and internet marketing

Internet economy and small business people

In 2011, CNN Money recently wrote:

- "While the Internet's impact has also killed some jobs, it creates about 2.6 jobs for every one destroyed"

- "Companies using the Internet with a high intensity grow twice as quickly as low-intensity Web companies, export twice as much as they do, and create more than twice as many jobs."

- "In the United States alone, the Internet drove 15% of the country's economic growth between 2004 and 2009"

Independent internet workers vs. other workers:

In November of 2011, CNBC reported:

"MBO Partners found just the opposite. Nearly 80 percent of independent workers in the survey say they are highly satisfied (58 percent) or satisfied (21 percent) with their work situation; just 11 percent are dissatisfied. Only 19 percent plan on looking for a traditional job in the next 24 months. Instead, 63 percent plan to continue as independent workers; 12 percent say they want to build their operations into businesses with employees."

In 2010, the popular news website The Week reported that only 45% of workers reported liking their jobs, so clearly independent workers are much happier with their working life than the average worker.


Entrepreneur marketing articles

Critical Thinking skills

Avoiding errant thinking:

Books:

Cognitive bias mitigation:

Recognizing the tactics of those engaged in disinformation:

Questioning skills

Lines of questioning:

Strategic questioning:

Questions for business:

Teaching skills

General levels of thinking and increasing your level of thinking

videos:

Jim Rohn Books:

Problem Solving

"The first to plead his case seems right, Until another comes and examines him." - Solomon, (Proverbs 18:17 NASB)

Ray Dalios 5 steps to success (problem solving included):

Articles:

Systems thinking:

George Polya's 4 steps to problem solving:


VUCA:

Problem solving Videos

General problem solving:

Mind mapping:

Lateral thinking:

Creative problem solving:

Vuca:

Forecasting:

Multiple strategies

Creativity / Innovation

International Center for Studies in Creativity:

Now here:

CNN - Next, innovation:

Innovation articles:


Ray Dalio: Be radically open-minded:

Strategic thinking

Personal strategic plan

General:

Creating a personal strategic plan:

Personal balance assessment:

Personal strategic plan: workbooks, checklists, etc.:

Strategic and tactical thinking

Sun Tzu:

George Washington:

"Washington’s true genius as a military leader was his refusal to give up. He was also very much inclined as a leader to listen to the other military leaders around him. Invariably, he adopted the consensus of opinion reached by his military advisers in making his decisions. Unlike flashier generals, Washington was always able to maintain a steady demeanor and, most importantly, keep his army in being. A lesser general would have risked all for a spectacular but non-decisive victory against the British. As a leader who valued winning the war more than winning individual battles, Washington knew well that time was on his side given the realities of geography and the larger geopolitical situation." - Command and Control, Great Military Leaders from Washington to the 21st Century by Mark R. Polelle

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all." - George Washington

Sun Tzu and marketing:


Sun Tzu and business:

Communication, marketing and PR

Accelerated learning and memory improvement

Learning faster 

Greater reading comprehension

Increasing ability to memorize

Other tips to improve mental performance: