HOW TO ASK FOR RECOMMENDATIONS ON LINKEDIN
By now you know I’m a big proponent of making the most of your LinkedIn. I’ve written about easy ways to elevate your professional profile — even over your morning coffee, words to avoid, more words to avoid, how to tell your story and more. Today’s LinkedIn topic: How to ask for recommendations.

The ideas is to have recruiters, would-be managers (or employees), clients and other important people in your professional life be able to read what others — colleagues, past bosses, mentors and more — say make you and your work special.

You won’t know if you don’t ask. And chances are you won’t get good response or helpful recommendations if you don’t know how to ask. Here are some tips.
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EVERY POTENTIAL INVESTOR WILL ASK YOU ABOUT THESE 3 THINGS. HERE’S HOW TO BE PREPARED
There’s a quick litmus-test conversation any early-stage VC will have with the founder, and it’s one that you should be as prepared for as your elevator pitch. It goes something like this:

VC: “How much money are you raising?”
Founder: “$8-10 million.”
VC: “What’s your current burn rate?”
Founder: “$250,000/month.”
VC: “So at a constant rate of burn rate you’d be raising enough for 2.5 to 3 years. Why are you raising so much?”
Founder: “Um. Let me check my plan.”
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12 BOOKS THAT SHOW HOW GREAT INNOVATORS REALLY CHANGED THE WORLD
The World Wide Web is one of those rare innovations that both truly changed the world and can also be largely attributed to just one person, Tim Berners-Lee. Working as an IT specialist at CERN laboratory in Switzerland he became intensely interested in finding a better way to store and retrieve scientific documents. So in November, 1989 he created the three protocols, HTTP, HTML and URL, that we still use to surf the web today.

Far more than a technical guide, Weaving the Web tells Berners-Lee’s personal journey of discovery, bringing his hopes and frustrations to the story of how he brought into life one of the most central technologies of the modern world. It is a wonderfully readable, fun and informative book!
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4 WAYS TO LEAD ANY PERSONALITY TYPE ON YOUR TEAM
As a leader, it’s important to know the people you work with. Strong relationships lead to stronger teams, and stronger teams lead to a more productive and more successful company. But getting to know people isn’t just knowing their favorite TV show or the name of their spouse. That’s trivia. To effectively manage your team, you’ve got to be aware of and understand your team members’ personalities.

There are tons of personality tests out there: Myers-Briggs, Big Five, DiSC, StrengthsFinder, etc. All of these seek to categorize people by their innate characteristics and provide a window into their strengths, tendencies, and behavior. While these tests aren’t always perfect, they can really help you understand how to better lead your team — no matter what personality types are on it.
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5 SIMPLE PARENTING STRATEGIES THAT HELP KIDS BUILD MASSIVE MENTAL STRENGTH
When my first book, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, hit the shelves, readers kept asking me the same question over and over again; “How do I teach my kids how to be mentally strong?”

I was thrilled to learn so many adults were invested in helping their kids build mental muscle. As a psychotherapist, I’ve seen countless adults endure years of suffering because they lacked the basic skills they needed to deal with hardships, setbacks, failure, and rejection.
Read more.......http://valourdigest.com/5-simple-parenting-strategies-that-help-kids-build-massive-mental-strength/