Kim and Todd Saxton: Entrepreneurs create their opportunities
The reality is that the entrepreneurial journey is not even a process of solo creation but rather is one of co-creation.
In the Workplace
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Company holiday parties are back, but with some restraint
More than 57% of companies are planning in-person holiday celebrations this year, according to a survey conducted by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a hiring firm. That’s a big leap from the past two years.
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Mandy Haskett: Here’s what you should be doing for your Gen Z workers
Gen Z workers, more than the millennial demographic cohort preceding them, seem to be particularly head-scratching for older workers—earning a reputation for their unwillingness to work and their high, “woke” demands.
Mark Caswell: Strive for work-life congruence instead of balance
I prefer the phrase “work-life congruence” because it puts “life” and “work” on the same team instead of pitting them against each other.
Shamari Walker: You’ve hit rock bottom? Use those rocks to build up.
As entrepreneurs, we tend to focus on the big picture.
Garrett Mintz: Here’s how we’re using AI to help us set SMART goals
The reason AI can be so powerful in this process is the immediacy of the feedback. Behavior change and positive habit formation occur when one’s pattern is disrupted, and the feedback received is immediate.
Tiffany Sauder: 4 things you must get right to win at entrepreneurship
It took us five years to figure out what business we were in, eight more to grow fast and almost crash into oblivion, and five more to rebuild the foundation of the business for sustainable, profitable growth.
Samantha Julka: Let’s help employees take a (mental) load off
One second I might be contemplating my laundry pile and the next taking a deep dive into why sales are down this quarter.
Kim and Todd Saxton: Observing lessons from a 111-year-old failure
What many people don’t realize is that the Titanic was the White Star Line’s solution to a hyper-competitive market—its own form of disruption.
Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow: How to balance risks, rewards of transparency
Transparency in the workplace can be a double-edge sword that cuts both ways.
Ilya Rekhter: Proposed tax on Bitcoin mining is bad business
The power consumption for this process is no joke, which is why the proposed 30% tax will effectively force all American-based companies overseas.
Kristen Cooper: Women-owned and women-led companies aren’t the same
A “women-led” company might have several women in charge making important strategic decisions on a daily basis; however, those female leaders don’t have enough equity in the company to control a board/investor-level vote.
Angie Stocklin: How open-book management helped us successfully pivot
Major company transitions take time, and I won’t pretend this rollout was quick and painless, but open-book management soon became an integral part of our company culture and was an additional layer of activating our core values, such as, “Act like an owner.”
Mandy Haskett: Leadership development shouldn’t just focus on leaders
Factors like toxic culture, bottlenecks, a lack of strategic clarity, lack of diversity, or cross-functional conflict act as organizational barriers that stifle your good people’s impact.
Tiffany Sauder: Break your hiring process to make it better
It’s easy for urgency to overpower the realization that hiring is one of the most important things we do as leaders. Going fast and on your gut serves no one.
Mark Caswell: When and how to reorganize the right way
The best (and only) use case for a reorganization is to solve a specific business problem.
Kim and Todd Saxton: The power of inflection points in your venture journey
Losing a key team member or a major customer, or having a product fail in the field, can lead to significant declines in revenue, customer trust and optimism.
Gallup: Just 2 in 10 U.S. employees have work ‘best friend’
The Gallup survey found a strong link between workers with best friends on the job and profitability, safety, inventory control and retention.
Garrett Mintz: Generous PTO can’t overcome lack of leadership
Overall, it seems there isn’t one work culture that is better than others. However, to be in the best work situation, I believe it starts and ends with having great leadership.
Ilya Rekhter: Success is more than having a great idea
If an idea is truly great, someone has likely thought of it before but might have hit a roadblock or moved on to something else. The real opportunity lies in overcoming those initial obstacles and finding product-market fit.
Samatha Julka: As leaders, we must be aware of unintended impact
My colleagues’ intention was to help, but the impact was hurt feelings.