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Dramatically Increase Productivity By Understanding Employees' Temperaments
The best leaders have an acute understanding of their employees’ temperaments. In the book "Colour Savvy," authors Susan Geary and Anne Bulstrode discuss four different temperaments—Inquiring Green,...
View ArticleFew People Understand The Difference Between Risk And Genuine Uncertainty
What are the odds that your new idea will succeed? If it does, what will the return to you be?One of the problems that we have in business (and life!) is that we often can’t know the answer to...
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13 CEOs Who Get Paid Shockingly More Than Their Employees
In the past 30 years, compensation for chief executives in America has increased 127 times faster than the average worker's salary.An annual list from Payscale compares the ratio of CEO to employee pay...
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8 Common Bad Habits That Ruin Client Relationships
When you’re running a small business—especially in the early stages—it’s easy to simply focus on how to stay afloat. The problem is, that mindset will keep your company mediocre at best and fighting...
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What The Future Workplace Will Look Like [SLIDE DECK]
Technology and globalization has completely changed how we live and work, and employers are trying to figure out how best to run their companies. If people are happier and get most of their big ideas...
View ArticleStartups Should Just Drop Their Marketing Team
I recently had a conversation with a marketing veteran, who came complete with an elite school MBA in marketing. I asked what he considered to be the purpose of a current marketing campaign. His...
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VC: This Is My Favorite Entrepreneur Story In A Long Time
Venture capitalist Mark Suster loves a good story of an entrepreneur driven by the desire to provide a great product.Suster recently wrote a post describing his favorite entrepreneur story in a while....
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INSTANT MBA: 'It Takes The Same Energy To Think Small As It Does To Think Big'
Today's advice comes from Shark Tank's Daymond John on Entreprenuer.com:"When I first got into business I made a lot of bad decisions. If I miss 10% to 20% of opportunities because they're a timely...
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4 Reasons Atlanta Is A Great Place For Entrepreneurs
In recent years, some smaller cities have been able to compete with larger areas — such as New York City and San Francisco — as places for entrepreneurs to start new businesses.In the South, Atlanta...
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4 Good Work Habits That Can Totally Backfire For Managers
Becoming a true leader requires an incredible amount of self-awareness. It involves knowing when to eliminate behaviors that are no longer working, even if they worked in the past. In his book "Tipping...
View ArticleA Great Idea Without Action Is Just A Regret
"Idea" should really be a verb, because no idea is ever truly real until our inspiration has been turned into action.No idea is ever a truly great idea until we actually do something with it.I should...
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One No-Brainer Reason To Set Up Your Company In A Foreign Country
May 8, 2013 SingaporeThe worldwide movement to tax, confiscate, and regulate everything imaginable turned a new page earlier this week when the “Marketplace Fairness Act” passed in the US Senate.The...
View ArticleA Struggling Small Town Entrepreneur Inspired Me To Try To Keep Other...
"What can I get for you?" the old man asked when I walked in the store. The expression on his face was expectant and hopeful, almost uncomfortably so.I was on my bike, two mountains into West Virginia...
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Obamacare Could Lead To 33% More New Businesses Over The Next Few Years
Despite objections by businesses to parts of the Affordable Care Act, there could be as many as 33% more new small businesses over the next few years as a result of the law, reports the WSJ. The...
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8 Ways To Be A Memorable Boss
I remember all of my bosses. Some were bad. Most were good.But only one was truly memorable--in the best possible way.Memorable bosses possess qualities that may not always show up on paper but do...
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INSTANT MBA: Give Employees The Tools They Need To Be Successful
Today's advice comes from Brooke Denihan Barrett, co-chief executive of Denihan Hospitality Group, via The New York Times:"You have to set certain standards that you want people to live up to. And if...
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6 Traits You Need If You Want to Lead
A treasure, hidden for centuries, awaits the lucky retriever. Three brothers each go on a quest for the treasure with the opportunity to claim it as his own.The two older brothers fail; the youngest...
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Work For Yourself Or Collect A Salary From Someone Else — Here's How To Think...
A salary is Fixed IncomeEarning a salary, working for someone else, is earning ‘fixed income,’ which means you hope it comes close to covering your lifestyle expenses. Like all fixed income, however,...
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Watching The Goldman Sachs IPO As An Analyst Was A Huge Lesson About...
This is a continuation of a theme started earlier, in this post On Entrepreneurship, Part IFounding an investment firmA friend from college once explained to me that, growing up, he didn’t realize his...
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9 Management Lessons We've Learned From The Office's Michael Scott
After nine long years, The Office came to a close last night (sad!). And while there are plenty of things we’ll miss—Jim and Dwight’s pranks, Kevin’s one-liners, and all the Andy drama—no one will ever...
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