The business world has always venerated warriors and studied their strategies. The Art of War and The Book of Five Rings can be found in many business management libraries.

Now a new breed of warrior has arrived. Mixed Martial Arts (the proper term for cage fighting) has exploded out of the underground to emerge as the hottest sport in the world. What might be learned from these modern warriors?

My Training As An Amateur Fighter

Yes. Computer geeks can learn to fight.

I’ve learned a lot while training with some of the toughest athletes in the world. I’m not talking about choking your opponent unconscious or splitting open foreheads with well-placed elbow strikes (although they are fun techniques to learn). We’re talking about tools for success that can apply to any aspect of life, especially business.

Here are the top 5 things I’ve learned while fight training:
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My fiancé Rebecca (also a small business owner) recently expressed her frustration with trying to keep up on the news articles, blogs, magazines, and trade journals she’s interested in. I understand the stress of information overload, so showed her how I use iGoogle to help manage it.

iGoogle takes only 5 minutes to setup.

iGoogle is my favorite online productivity tool. It allows you to easily add widgets to personalize your Google homepage. Widgets are little tools such as to-do lists, calendar and weather info. One of the most powerful uses for widgets is to summarize news, blog & magazine headlines. You can create different tabs to organize your widgets into different categories.

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