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It is important to have good people skills

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"If you look for the best in people, if you motivate people, if you praise people, if you don't criticize people - these are all the skills that are needed to be a great leader," he explains.

In order to develop solid interpersonal skills, paying attention is key.

"You need to be a great listener as well," Branson tells CNBC Make It. "[I] hate hearing leaders just pontificating their own views and not listening to other people."

The last step: "You need to write down what you hear from other people," he adds. Branson espouses the value of taking notes and attributes some of his best ideas to having a pen and paper available.

Even Elon Musk has heard this advice from Branson. In Branson's new book, " Finding My Virginity," the British billionaire recalls a time vacationing with Musk on Necker Island, way before Musk was founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and worth $20 billion. At the time, Branson, who was impressed with Musk's technical knowledge, told him, "If you don't have your own ventures one day, you're welcome to come and run one of mine - just brush up on your people skills," Branson writes.

In his own companies, Branson tries to build a culture that focuses on employees.

"The key to success in business is all about people, people, people," he writes on his blog. "It should go without saying, if you look after your people, your customers and bottom line will be rewarded too."

When it comes to investing in new businesses, Branson is also thinking about people first. To him, the big picture is more important than the details.

"What I am good at is coming up with interesting ideas and then finding amazing people to turn them into reality," he writes in the book. "I see investing in start-ups the same way. I'm not always caught up in the details of what a particular app will or won't do; I'm more interested in the personalities behind the companies, and the purpose within their visions."
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Billionaire Richard Branson: This skill set is the most critical to achieving success

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"If you look for the best in people, if you motivate people, if you praise people, if you don't criticize people - these are all the skills that are needed to be a great leader," he explains. In order to develop solid interpersonal skills, paying attention is key.

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It is a way to help me become a better person for the long term goal

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Mark Twain once said, "I can live for two months on a good compliment."

Yet, many of us struggle with the simple act of appreciating and complimenting the people around us. On a daily basis, many of us feel awkward or uncomfortable with the simple act of giving or receiving compliments with those around us. Greater appreciation leads to improved communication, better relationships, and more fulfillment.

Many people downplay compliments to avoid the appearance of conceit. It's so common that sociologists have categorized the three responses to a compliment: acceptance, deflection or rejection. Rather than humbly accept or outright reject the kind words, individuals often choose to deflect or dilute the compliment.

The hardest part, of course, is learning exactly what to say. Perhaps the easiest approach is to keep things short and sweet: A smile and a simple "thank you so much" works in most scenarios. Of course, feel free to elaborate, and definitely share the credit with others when it's due -- but resist the urge to downplay the compliment in any way.

Mike Robbins' book, Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation, teaches people how to utilize the power of appreciation in their relationships, with co-workers, and in their lives. Greater appreciation leads to improved communication, better relationships, and more fulfillment.

The book offers tips for giving great compliments and for the sometimes challenging task of receiving compliments gracefully:

How to give great compliments:

1. Be Genuine: Say what you mean, mean what you say, and speak from your heart.

2. Make it Personal - You have to know something about the person, what they like, and their personality - it is not a "one-size-fits-all" phenomenon.

3. Be Specific: Let people know exactly what they've done or what quality they have that you appreciate and how that action or quality impacts you in a positive way.

How to receive compliments effectively:

1. Breathe: Take a moment to pause, breathe, and let in the compliment.

2. Say "thank you": Acknowledge the compliment and believe the person is telling you the truth (even if you disagree with their praise).

3. Shut Your Mouth: After you say "thank you," there is nothing else you have to say - don't argue with them or throw a phony compliment right back at them (which is what we often do), just accept it and be quiet.

Conclusion
The most important thing to remember is that you should take an active interest in genuinely appreciating other people -- especially in a work environment. Compliment results. Make sure that your firm's recognition and reward programs are in place, functioning, and well utilized. And after any award ceremony, offer your personal compliments as those will have their own effect on employees. When you see happy and content employees in the corridors or at their desks, let them know how good it feels to you. The compliment generates enthusiasm that, in turn, drives productivity. If you can do that, the rest will follow.
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Many of us struggle with the simple act of appreciating and complimenting the people around us, but doing so can have dramatic benefits for both office harmony and the overall success of your business. Learn more about this and related topics at FindLaw.com.

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The Importance of Weight Loss and Exercise

Carrying around too much weight feels uncomfortable, and it can also damage your health. According the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity rates have skyrocketed in the United States in recent years. As of 2010, more than one-third of American adults have obesity, defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher. Body mass is derived by dividing weight in pounds by height in inches squared, and then multiplying the result by 703 (weight (lb) / [height (in)] ² x 703). You can calculate your body mass by following these three steps:

1. Multiply your weight in pounds by 703.

2. Calculate your height in inches squared.

3. Divide the resulting number from step 1 by the resulting number in step 3.

Obesity can lead to a number of serious health problems, including heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and some types of cancer.

One method that can help a person lose weight is to limit the number of calories taken in through their diet. The other way is to burn extra calories with exercise.

Combining exercise with a healthy diet is a more effective way to lose weight than depending on calorie restriction alone. Exercise can prevent or even reverse the effects of certain diseases. Exercise lowers blood pressure and cholesterol, which may prevent a heart attack.

In addition, if you exercise, you lower your risk of developing certain types of cancers such as colon and breast cancer. Exercise is also known to help contribute to a sense of confidence and well-being, thus possibly lowering rates of anxiety and depression.

Exercise is helpful for weight loss and maintaining weight loss. Exercise can increase metabolism, or how many calories you burn in a day. It can also help you maintain and increase lean body mass, which also helps increase number of calories you burn each day.

To reap the health benefits of exercise, it is recommended that you to perform some form of aerobic exercise at least three times a week for a minimum of 20 minutes per session. However, more than 20 minutes is better if you want to actually lose weight. Incorporating just 15 minutes of moderate exercise - such as walking one mile - on a daily basis will burn up to 100 extra calories (assuming you don't consume excess calories in your diet afterwards). Burning 700 calories a week can equals 10 lbs. of weight loss over the course of a year.

To receive all of the health benefits of exercise, you'll need to mix in some higher intensity exercises. To get an idea of how hard you are working, you can check your heart rate. The basic formula for determining your target heart rate is to subtract your age from 220 and then calculate 60 to 80 percent of that number.

Talk to a trainer or your healthcare team to help you determine your best intensity for each workout. Those with special health concerns such as an injury, diabetes, or a heart condition should consult a physician before beginning any fitness program.

The type of exercise you choose for weight loss doesn't matter as much as whether or not you're doing it. That's why experts recommend you pick exercises you enjoy, so that you'll stick to a regular routine.

Aerobic

No matter what exercise program you implement, it should include some form of aerobic or cardiovascular exercise. Aerobic exercises get your heart rate up and your blood pumping. Aerobic exercises may include walking, jogging, cycling, swimming, and dancing. You can also work out on a fitness machine such as a treadmill, elliptical, or stair stepper.

Weight Training

A big advantage of working out with weights is that, in addition to shedding fat, you'll build muscle. Muscle, in turn, burns calories. Talk about a healthy feedback loop! Experts recommend working all the major muscle groups three times per week. This includes:

Yoga

Yoga is not as intense as other types of exercise, but it can help you lose weight in other ways, according to a recent study by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The study found that people who practice yoga are more mindful about what they eat and, therefore, less likely to have obesity.

The total amount of exercise you engage in during a day matters more than whether or not you do it in a single session. That's why small changes in your daily routine can make a big difference in your waistline.

Healthy lifestyle habits to consider include:

walking or riding your bike to work or while running errands

taking the stairs instead of the elevator

parking farther away from destinations and walking the remaining distance

The average adult male who doesn't exercise requires approximately 2,200 calories a day to maintain his average weight. A female needs about 1,800 calories to maintain her weight.

The following list contains common activities and the approximate amount of calories burned per hour:
Activities Calories Burned
playing baseball, golf, or cleaning the house

240 to 300

brisk walking, biking, dancing, or gardening

370 to 460

playing football, jogging (at a nine-minute-mile pace), or swimming

580 to 730

skiing, racquetball, or running (at a seven-minute-mile pace)

740 to 920

Talk to your doctor before you start a new exercise program, especially if you are planning on doing vigorous exercise. This is especially important if you have:

People who have been very inactive for the recent months, who are overweight, or have recently quit smoking should also talk to their doctors before staring a new exercise program.

When you are first starting a new exercise program, it's important to pay attention to the signals your body is giving you. You should push yourself, so that your fitness level improves. However, pushing yourself too hard can cause you to injure yourself. Stop exercising if you start to experience pain or shortness of breath.

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Our Responsibility in Taking Care of Our Parents

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The first question of moral philosophy, going back to Plato, is "how ought I to live my life?". Perhaps the second, following close on the heels of the first, can be taken to be "ought I to live morally or not?", assuming that one can "get away with" being immoral. Another, more familiar way of phrasing this second question is "why be moral?", where this is elliptical for something like, "will it be good for me and my life to be moral, or would I be better off being immoral, as long as I can get away with it?".

Bringing together the ancient Greek conception of happiness with a modern conception of self-respect, it turns out to be bad to be a bad person, while in fact, it is good to be a good person. Here are some reasons why:

(1) Because being bad is bad. Some have thought that being bad or immoral can be good for a person, especially when we can "get away with it", but there are some good reasons for thinking this is false. The most important reason is that being bad or immoral is self-disrespecting and it is hard to imagine being happy without self-respect. Here's one quick argument:

Being moral (or good) is necessary for having self-respect.
Self-respect is necessary for happiness.
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Therefore, being good is necessary for happiness.

Of course, a full defense of this syllogism would require more than can be given in a blog post, but hopefully, it isn't too hard to see the ways in which lying, cheating, and stealing - or being immoral in general - is incompatible with having genuine self-respect. (Of course, cheaters may think they have self-respect, but do you really think Lance Armstrong was a man of self-respect, whatever he may have thought of himself?)

(2) Because it is the only way to have a chance at having self-respect. We can only have self-respect if we respect who we actually are, we can't if we only respect some false image of ourselves. So, self-respect requires self-knowledge. And only people who can make just and fair self-assessments can have self-knowledge. And only just and fair people, good, moral people can make just and fair self-assessments. (This is a very compacted version of a long argument.)

(3) Because being good lets you see what is truly of value in the world. Part of what being good requires is that good people know what is good in the world and what is not. Bad people have bad values, good people have good values. Having good values means valuing what deserves to be valued and not valuing what does not deserve to be valued.

(4) Because a recent study of West Point cadets reveals that cadets with mixed motivations - some selfish, instrumental, and career-oriented, while others are "intrinsic" and responsive to the value of the job itself - do not perform as well cadets whose motivations are not mixed and are purely intrinsic. ( See "The Secret of Effective Motivation")

(5) Because being good means taking good care of yourself. It doesn't mean that you are the most important thing in the world, or that nothing is more important than you. But, in normal circumstances, it does give you permission to take better care of yourself and your loved ones than complete strangers.

(6) Because being good means that while you can be passionate, you can choose what you are passionate about; it means that you don't let your emotions, desires, wants, and needs "get the better of you" and "make" you do things that you later regret. It gives you true grit.

(7) Because being good means that you will be courageous and brave, in the face of danger and pain and social rejection. It gives you the ability to speak truth to power and "fight the good fight". It helps you assess risk, spot traps, and seize opportunities. It helps you be successful.

(8) Because being good means that you will be wise as you can be when you are old and grey. Deep wisdom may not be open to everyone, since some simply might not have the intellectual wherewithal for it. (Think of someone with severe cognitive disabilities.) But we can all, of course, be as wise as it is possible for us to be. This won't happen, however, by accident. Wise people have to be able to perspicuously see into the "heart of the matter", and this won't happen unless we care about the right things. And we won't care about the right things unless we have good values, so being good will help make us be as wise as we can be.

(9) Because being good means that we are lovers of the good and, if we are lucky, it means that we will be loved by those who are themselves good. And being lovers of the good means that we become good at loving what is good, to the best of our ability. So, being good makes us become good lovers. And it is good to be a good lover, isn't it? And good lovers who value what is good are more likely to be loved in return by people who also love the good. What could be better than being loved well by a good person who is your beloved?

(10) Because of 1-9 above, only good people can live truly happy lives. Only good people live the Good Life.
Headline image credit: Diogenes and Plato by Mattia Preti 1649. Capitoline Museums. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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Benefits of Having a High School Diploma

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The Importance Of Measuring Risk And Goals In Financial Planning

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