Employees

Building a Business

How Letting Go of the Wrong Clients Helped Me Scale From 7 to 8 Figures

Getting to seven figures is about who you let in. Getting to eight is about who you're willing to let go.

By gidon levy

Building a Business

Exceptional Employees Share These 3 Traits. Here’s How to Spot Them in an Interview.

By Paul M. Wilson

Building a Business

Americans Are Relocating In Record Numbers. Here’s What Employers Need to Know.

By Ben Walker

Building a Business

Your Team Can Be Fully Aligned on a Decision, But Still Hesitate When It’s Time to Act on It. Here’s Why.

By Bayo Akinola-Odusola

Thought Leaders

What Overemployment Reveals About the Modern Workforce — and What Leaders Should Do About It

Employees holding multiple jobs may seem like a compliance issue on the surface, but the real story is what the trend reveals about trust, retention and the future of work.

By Volen Vulkov

Thought Leaders

When You Put People First, Performance Follows. Here’s What I Wish More Leaders Understood.

In a world obsessed with metrics and scale, the leaders who last are the ones who never forgot that people come first.

By Sheldon Yellen

Human Resources

How Employee Recognition Breaks Down as Businesses Grow — and How to Fix It Before It Costs You

Recognizing employees positively impacts engagement and the broader business culture. As businesses scale, leaders need a reliable way to deliver recognition in the moment. Here's how.

By Brent LaBathe

Thought Leaders

I Never Ask My Team to Change — I Ask Them to Grow. Here’s Why It Works.

Don't ask your team to change; ask them to grow. Here's the difference — and how it helps us scale while maintaining culture.

By Chris Sorensen

Human Resources

85% of Employees Experience at Least 1 Tech-Related Slowdown Every Day — and It’s Costing You More Than You Think

Many companies obsess over every touchpoint a customer might encounter. The experience their own employees have every day is often a different story.

By Scott Baradell

Thought Leaders

Your Employees Know What to Do — Do They Know Why It Matters? Here’s Why Teams Need Purpose, Not Just Direction.

Understanding the strategic power of "why" in entrepreneurial leadership.

By Majeed Javdani

Leadership

Your Team Left the Meeting Aligned — Execution Fell Apart Anyway. Here’s Why.

Even when meetings end with everyone agreeing, side conversations can dissolve alignment. Here's how to stop the drift.

By Bayo Akinola-Odusola

Leadership

The High Performer Who Was Secretly Killing My Company

It’s a mistake that too many managers make. Here’s how I solved it.

By Daniel Halvarsson

Thought Leaders

34% of Hourly Workers Rely on More Than 1 Job to Get By. Here’s How Employers Should Respond.

Millions of Americans are juggling multiple jobs. Here's what they really need from their employers.

By Paul Wellons

Business News

Starbucks Is Building a $100 Million Nashville Office. But Seattle Employees Don’t Want to Move There.

The coffee chain is pushing 2,000 jobs to Tennessee, but its first relocation effort is meeting resistance from Pacific Northwesterners.

By Jonathan Small

Thought Leaders

Optimism Is Your Greatest Asset — Until It Starts Working Against You. Here’s What I Wish I’d Known Sooner.

Believe in their potential. But trust their actions.

By C. Lee Smith

Thought Leaders

Why Always Being Available Is Holding Your Business Back (and How to Stop Being the Bottleneck)

Most founders pride themselves on being constantly reachable — but that habit often turns them into the bottleneck. Here's why stepping back is the real mark of leadership.

By Saahil Mehta

Building a Business

How I Leveraged Learning and Community to Drive Lasting Success — and How You Can Do the Same

The companies that win long-term don't just scale products — they scale people, culture and connection.

By Thiru Thangarathinam

Building a Business

Why Keeping Bad Clients Is the Most Expensive Mistake You Can Make

Debunking the myth of "the customer comes first."

By Roy Dekel

Thought Leaders

Why the Quietest Person in the Room Might Build the Best Startup

The startup world celebrates bold personalities and fast pitches, yet many of the most thoughtful innovations come from quiet thinkers who question assumptions and look deeper.

By Mark Smith

Thought Leaders

How to Make Change Feel Normal — Instead of Threatening — to Your Team

Inspiration alone isn't the answer for high performance amid change. Routinizing change may be.

By Kristel Bauer

Thought Leaders

Are You the Problem at Work? These 15 Questions Will Reveal the Truth.

A candid look at emotional intelligence and leadership blind spots.

By Roy Dekel

Thought Leaders

4 Ways Leaders Are Unknowingly Breaking Employee Trust — and What They Can Do to Rebuild It

In an AI-driven era, trust is a strategic asset — and many leaders are unintentionally eroding it. Here are five ways to rebuild it.

By Sam Reese

Thought Leaders

Companies Are Making a Major Mistake With AI Adoption — and It’s Driving Away Their Top Talent

Many organizations are misusing AI-driven productivity gains, and it's costing them their best people. Here's what they're getting wrong.

By EYNAT GUEZ

Business Accounting

How Investing in Employee Financial Wellness Turns Distracted Workers Into Focused Performers

How financial wellness benefits reduce stress, restore focus and deliver measurable productivity gains.

By Jason Lee

Thought Leaders

I Told My Team to Take Walks During Our Biggest Crisis — and It’s What Kept Us From Breaking. Here’s Why.

Most leaders would have demanded 80-hour weeks. We focused on trust and rest instead—and ran faster than ever.

By Prince Kohli

Thought Leaders

How Leaders Can Use the 5 ‘Work Love Languages’ to Better Motivate Their Teams

To truly motivate your team, you need to understand their 'work love language.' Here's what that means and where to start.

By Hope Horner

Run Your Business

Why Your ‘Hardest Workers’ May Be Holding Your Company Back

I managed teams for one of the world's most elite investment firms. I saw how often leaders rewarded the wrong behavior, and limited the company's potential.

By Dave Kline