How Entrepreneurs Can Help Others
“With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility.” Given the amount of Spider-Man films (and reboots) we’ve seen for nearly two decades now, we should all be quite familiar with the famous phrase at the center of the comic book hero’s ethos. It is an ethos more people in...
Three Tips for Growing a Healthy Team
Think of the great sports franchises in the world. What do they all have in common? Aside from a staggeringly high payroll and stars that make more in a year than most of us will make in a lifetime, these franchises have mastered the art and science of team building....
Is Work-Life Balance a Myth?
It’s one of the great myths about modern working life, one we desperately want to believe and yet increasingly find unbelievably challenging to manage. It’s something at the heart of the middle-class dream, and yet as America’s middle class has shrunk over the past...
Tips for Creating a Meaningful Company Culture
One of the most difficult yet necessary tasks for any new business to accomplish is to cultivate a healthy corporate culture. For as much as the bottom line matters, that can’t be all that matters to your company. Focusing on money alone isn’t just a shallow endeavor,...
Why Mission Statements Still Matter
It is fair to say that the face of business has changed radically in several ways over the past couple of decades. Forces such as digitization and globalization have changed the way we do and think about business. With change so abundant, it can be tempting to think...
Why Employees Are Companies’ Best Investments
It’s almost something of a cliché by this point to say that our employees are our most significant investment. However, that doesn’t make it any less true. On the contrary, the fact that this notion is so widespread and often repeated says something about its...
Quick Tips for Leaders on How to Champion Change
One of the most critical questions any aspiring entrepreneur has to answer is, “Why?” Why do you do what you do? Why are you interested in the field you are pursuing? Why do you think your vision is worthwhile? Just what is that vision anyway? Because you need a...
How Managers Can Improve Performance Reviews
One of the great struggles for anyone looking to give performance reviews in any profession is making that feedback helpful. Football players don’t need to hear their coach simply yelling at them about what they did wrong – they have to know what they can do right....
Two Tips for Working Efficiently in Recruiting
When you get right down to it, recruiting is one of the most important parts of any successful business – and one of the toughest to pull off well. You know that you need to recruit quality employees to make your business a success, but first, you have to find them....
How to Create a Collaborative Work Environment
Groupthink is one of the most pernicious byproducts of modern corporate culture, and is likewise one of the most limiting and damaging. Not only is there something horribly wicked about expecting or demanding everyone in a group to think alike, but such an attitude...