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Author of Real Leaders Don't Follow at Invisor Consulting

Steve Tobak is a management consultant, columnist, former senior executive, and author of Real Leaders Don't Follow: Being Extraordinary in the Age of the Entrepreneur (Entrepreneur Press, October 2015). Tobak runs Silicon Valley-based Invisor Consulting and blogs at stevetobak.com, where you can contact him and learn more.

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Building a Business

Career Choices are Hard But This Is How You Make Them Easier

If you stay true to yourself and let your life unfold organically, everything will work out fine.

Building a Business

Here’s Why You Should Quit Reading and Start Doing

Contrary to what you may have read, we learn more from experience than from books and blogs.

Business News

Will You Thrive in the Trump Economy?

If you make an honest living, you will love Trumponomics. If not, it's about time to start.

Thought Leaders

Why Experience Makes You Fearless

People who seem fearless are not. They're just experienced.

Building a Business

Theranos Debacle Triggers an Avalanche of Lawsuits by Investors Who Should Have Known Better

Very wealthy people dazzled by founder Elizabeth Holmes stampeded to invest huge sums. Now they want their money back.

Building a Business

Why Millennials Have Their Priorities Screwed Up

It's great to live in the moment, but if you want to live a great life, you have to focus on long-term goals.

Building a Business

Chasing Success Is No Way to Achieve It

You succeed by following your own unique path, not someone else's.

Thought Leaders

The Trouble With Divisive Leadership

Workplaces are becoming more political, and that's never a good thing.

Business News

Donald Trump Won the Election and Now America Needs to Navigate the Transition

In tumultuous times the most important consideration is what values absolutely must remain the same, such as the sanctity of our democracy.

Entrepreneurs

My Best Career Moves Were Getting Married and Staying Married

Making your way in life too tough to do alone.

Building a Business

5 Lessons From 7 Months in Startup Hell

Not every startup is founded on self-serving generalizations and unsubstantiated hype but lots are.

Thought Leaders

What It Takes to Be a Great Boss

Experience, perspective and alignment are the three essentials to becoming a great leader.

Thought Leaders

Why Most CEOs Are Frauds

Calling yourself a CEO doesn't make you one.

Online Presence

This Is Why Social Media Analytics Are Essentially Worthless

All that data tells you is how you're doing on one platform over time, not if it's time or effort well spent.

Thought Leaders

Live Your Own Life, Not Someone Else’s

Don't fall into the trap of letting others' opinions dictate your actions.

Building a Business

The Virtuous Cycle of Work, Achievement and Reward

Our culture is obsessed with quick and easy ways to achieve fame and fortune. There is no such thing.

Thought Leaders

10 Lessons You Should Learn Sooner Than Later

There are some truths you only learn the hard way. How hard is mostly up to you.

Building a Business

Quit Wasting Your Brain and Learn to Think for Yourself

As our culture becomes ever more cautious, employers are desperate for people who think critically and creatively.

Thought Leaders

Why Technology Disruption Is Not Better for Entrepreneurs

Respect the persistence and profitability of old-school businesses.

Building a Business

This Is How to Manage Your Career Like a CEO

Make every opportunity count, know your limitations, and don't be your own worst enemy.

Online Presence

Can Twitter Censor Terrorists and Trolls Without Silencing Free Speech?

Social media, once a bastion of open discourse, is under mounting pressure to define and remove "hate'' speech.

Business News

6 Lessons From the Demise of Gawker

Gawker was crushed by a libel suit brought by Hulk Hogan and financed by Peter Thiel. Gawker founder Nick Denton is no victim; he did this to himself.