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Are You Curious Entrepreneurs? " We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths ." - Walt Disney Entrepreneurs and small business owners, curiosity has the power to unleash your creativity that can lead to breakthrough innovations. Curiosity can ignite your internal fire and propel you to make amazing things! Best of all, when you are curious, you are never idle. You are always thinking of doing something new and interesting.  Walt Disney said: " When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do ."  So let us commit ourselves to always Be Curious !  Share your story with us on oGoing.com - the Local Small Business Community. We will spotlight your story in front of over 25K local small businesses.  Be Curious. Always!

Quite often, today's innovators become tomorrow's laggards, and many either die or just stop growing. The real question is: Why? Some of the popular and innovative companies of yesterday such as Hollywood Video, Borders, THQ, KB Toys, Frontier Airlines, Trump Entertainment Resorts, Nortel, Habitat, Polaroid are dead. Some reasons for the eventual demise and the death of innovation at these companies are: 1. Dependence on the familiar - Most companies become over-dependent on existing products for far too long, keep on adding bells and whistles and additional features that current customers keep on asking for, until they realize that these products are now bloated and obsolete. Worse yet, new customers don't want to buy the bloatware, and existing customers are also getting tired of the extra things that are not needed. 2. Change of management structure - Many times, as the company grows, the culture, leadership and management becomes more and more process oriented, and les...

" It's (Creativity) a grossly underrated skill ," observed Gene Lindman, who heads EP&M International, a marketing company in Albany. " Having people who can think and create is super-important to us ." " Successful businesses get it ," said Chris Marblo, director of the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy. " They realize without a doubt creative thinking is important. " Bottomline: What do you think? Do you believe creativity is super-important for innovation and beyond? Over 1,500 CEOs according to IBM study believe that creativity was more important "than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision" if companies are to succeed in an increasingly complex global economy. Learn more about creativity and innovation Reference: Key to innovation

Rooted in traditional Toltec wisdom beliefs, four agreements in life are essential steps on the path to personal freedom. As beliefs are transformed through maintaining these agreements, shamanic teacher and healer don Miguel Ruiz asserts lives will "become filled with grace, peace, and unconditional love." Amazon.com Review Sit at the foot of a native elder and listen as great wisdom of days long past is passed down. In The Four Agreements shamanic teacher and healer don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple yet effective code of personal conduct learned from his Toltec ancestors. Full of grace and simple truth, this handsomely designed book makes a lovely gift for anyone making an elementary change in life, and it reads in a voice that you would expect from an indigenous shaman. The four agreements are these: Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best. It's the...