Entrepreneurs
Employee Engagement and the Pursuit of Happiness
Most workers aren't happy. They're just going through the motions.
By Erin Peck
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Thought Leaders
How to Increase Accountability Without Breathing Down People’s Necks
One of the toughest balances to achieve within an organization is between building a culture that gives people space while maintaining an environment of accountability.
Thought Leaders
5 Leadership Secrets Stolen From Famous People
The traits of authentic leadership are timeless, even if conspicuously absent these days. Here's a refresher.
By Phil La Duke
Building a Business
How to Avoid 4 Key Causes of Failure
The majority of failures are self inflicted and easily avoidable if you follow these four steps.
Marketing
9 Ways to Speed Up Content Creation and Connect With More Users
Apply agile marketing practices to crowdsource knowledge, prioritize critical tasks and know when it's time to move on.
By Andrew Raso
Entrepreneurs
Prepare Now so Your Team Can Enjoy the Holidays and Still Be Productive
Holiday distractions are inevitable, but they don't have to stunt productivity.
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.
By Steve Tobak
Thought Leaders
To Achieve Your Full Potential Stop Telling Yourself These 5 Lies
Stop focusing on what's beyond your control and start considering what you can improve.
Entrepreneurs
3 Ways to Drive Continual Improvement
Prepare before you have to, observe how others approach challenges and hold yourself accountable for the process as well as its outcomes.
By Jason Womack
Thought Leaders
The 9 Cs of Entrepreneurial Success
Leadership lessons from a follower in the Hanoi Hilton POW camp.
By Lee Ellis
Entrepreneurs
In Prison I Found Freedom Through My Personal Discipline
Even when we have no control over external circumstances we retain control of actions and reactions.
Building a Business
3 Key Steps for Crisis Communication
No business is immune to experiencing a crisis, but how a company responds determines if it can weather the storm or not.
Entrepreneurs
Stop Planning Your Career and Start Taking Action
If your career is stuck in neutral it's time to be honest about your future prospects and be willing to change direction.
Entrepreneurs
4 Rules to Provide Flexibility Without Losing Accountability
How can employers ensure that flexibility won't torpedo their companies' productivity?
Business News
3 Reasons the Imposter Syndrome is Valid (And How to Fix It)
The name alone makes us shudder, but the only way to overcome the fear of being found out is by confronting it head-on.
By Paul Evans
Entrepreneurs
8 Ways Successful People Beat Procrastination
We all procrastinate, but the truly successful have the tools to get past it and get to work.
Building a Business
4 Small Changes That Will Make You More Productive
Focus only on what you can control and/or influence.
By Beth Miller
Thought Leaders
Why a CEO’s Credibility Is More Fragile Than a Politician’s Chances for Election
Business leaders are paid for results much easier to measure than the promises that get candidates elected.
Building a Business
Why My Company Approved Unlimited Vacation Time for Our Team
This was a move on my part to strengthen the company and boost our bottom line by putting faith in people -- not processes.
By Jeff Booth
Building a Business
3 Ways CEOs Can Empower Teams to Embrace Collaboration
Think: collective vision, transparency and monitoring of results.
Building a Business
3 Decision-Making Tools to Help You Draw the Right Conclusions as Your Business Evolves
Don't try to manage your newly complex business with the same decision-making tools you used when it was small.
By Les McKeown
Entrepreneurs
How to Accomplish Your No. 1 Goal in Just 100 Days
Start by breaking a vague goal into concrete steps.
By Jon Nastor
Thought Leaders
Real Leaders Own Their Mistakes
There's an epidemic of business and political leaders making lame excuses, playing the blame game, and failing to hold themselves accountable.
By Steve Tobak
Thought Leaders
8 Essential Attributes of a Successful Mindset
Before you decide to start a new business, take a hard look at your own values, discipline and way of thinking.
Building a Business
4 Ways to Teach Personal Accountability to Your Employees
Create team members who are resilient, committed to results and accepting of the consequences of their actions -- good and bad.
By Cy Wakeman
Building a Business
6 Steps to Turn Resolutions Into Realities
You started the year absolutely certain you'd establish rock-hard abs in two weeks. Oh, but that didn't work? Here's why -- and here's what will.
Thought Leaders
Why Entrepreneurs Must Fight Mediocrity
The partial-reinforcement extinction effect is a real threat, which is why it's up to competitive business people to keep standards high.