Building a Business
4 Keys to Choosing the Right Vendor
Make sure it's someone you believe in, want to listen to and can trust.
By Greg Hong
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Thought Leaders
Accepting These 6 Painful Truths Will Make You a Better Leader
Leadership is rewarding, when it isn't painful.
Building a Business
How to Focus Employees Who Are Too Helpful With Their Ideas
Managers must find ways to encourage input while also insisting employees get their work done.
Building a Business
5 Skills of World-Caliber Managers
For a business to grow it needs to rely on strong managers with a special set of skills.
By Ken Dunn
Building a Business
Are You a Business Owner or a Puppet?
If you're too reliant on a few big suppliers, products or customers you may be working for them instead of for yourself.
By Sam Harrop
Building a Business
Father and Son Business Owners Share Their Secrets to Success
In time for Father's Day, successful father and son business owners share how they balance their personal and professional relationships.
By Lisa Evans
Thought Leaders
Sumner Redstone’s Battle Is a Lesson In How Not to Lead
Redstone's battle with his Viacom team and board shows why founders or CEOs have to learn to bow out gracefully.
Building a Business
Donald Trump and The Art of the Reboot
Define and redefine roles on your team as your work evolves, and seek to put the right people in those roles.
Building a Business
4 Ways to Lift the Curse From Your Business
Bad vibes are intangible but you can feel them. Changing the mood can change the course of your business.
By Marty Fukuda
Thought Leaders
Leading a Startup in Stage Four: Self-Sustainability
The travails of stage three have been surmounted; finally things are going well. Now it's time to disrupt your own company.
By Derek Lidow
Building a Business
Why Everybody Respects Professional But Nobody Likes Corporate
As founder and CEO, you get to define the company culture, and it should always be professional. What it shouldn't become is impersonal.
Building a Business
6 Sacrifices Facing Every Entrepreneur
No one said that starting a business would be easy. But as long as you know going in what you'll need to give up, you'll be able to thrive.
Thought Leaders
The 5 Leadership Lessons That Fixing Cars Taught Me
The problems you face with your company aren't so different from the ones with that old Mustang you had up on blocks in your parents' driveway.
Building a Business
What An Accelerator Taught Me That I Could Not Have Learned at Google
eing a part of an accelerator will teach you core principles for running a startup.
Thought Leaders
5 Reasons Your Boss is Clueless
Surveys show there is a disconnect between employees and employers.
Thought Leaders
The 6 Biggest Myths About Meetings Today
Dispelling these fallacies will help bring positive change to your company.
By Paul Axtell
Building a Business
5 Keys to Retaining Your Best Employees
Retaining top talent is the fastest and most effective way to grow your business.
By Zech Newman
Building a Business
4 Business Lessons From the Legendary John Wooden
The great UCLA coach taught his championship teams that details create success.
By Eric M. Ruiz
Building a Business
You Can’t Control Speed at Scale
Managing the sequence of activities keeps focus on producing the right things first.
Thought Leaders
35 Masterful Quotes to Inspire Healthier Workplace Relationships
Conflict in your workplace? Handle it using negotiation skills, patience and a healthy dose of emotional intelligence.
Building a Business
3 Ways to Start Looking at Managerial Candidates in a New and Better Way
Just because someone has been with a company 15 years doesn't mean he or she automatically deserves a promotion.
By Andre Lavoie
Thought Leaders
4 Signs a CEO is ‘Holding the Stick Too Tightly’
The best shots in hockey come from a firm but relaxed grip on the stick. Business leaders need that same sort of hold on their organizations.
By Ken Dunn
Building a Business
4 Ways to Make Your Business Better in the New Year
Looking at trends and competitors and simply dropping anything that is holding you back are essential going into 2016.
By Ken Dunn
Building a Business
3 Destructive Employee Syndromes No Boss Can Tolerate
Mostly, it's good when people take ownership of their jobs but, taken to an extreme, it turns toxic.
Human Resources
4 Ways to Balance Company Rules With Values
How do you keep your business flexible and efficient at the same time?
Thought Leaders
What No One Tells You About Having a Co-Founder
Co-founder conflicts cause startup failure. These five questions can help you avoid one.
By Renée Warren