Thought Leaders
5 Essential Traits Leaders Should Embody
Embodying these traits may help you become an impactful leader.
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Thought Leaders
5 Social Skills Every Entrepreneur Needs to Master
During uncertain times, communication is the glue that holds organizations together.
Building a Business
3 Social-Intelligence Methods for Building Strong Stakeholder Relationships
If you want to foster trust, start listening and keeping them laughing.
Thought Leaders
When To Fire Yourself, or Change Before You Have To
More than 50 percent of founders are replaced by the third round of financing. Here's how to know if you'll be one of them.
By Jocelyn Kung
Thought Leaders
Why Good Listening Is a Critical Skill for Founders and Entrepreneurs
Here are seven ways to improve your listening skills ... and your business.
By Aytekin Tank
Human Resources
You Won’t Know What You Don’t Know Unless You Listen to Diverse Voices
Next time you visit a field operation, skip the management meeting and ask a service rep to take you on a customer call.
Business Funding
Effective Networking Requires Mastering These 5 Skills
Good networking is a learned skill, and all entrepreneurs have made mistakes with their networking at some point.
Human Resources
How to Become a Master Communicator by Following This One Rule
If you're ever talking with strangers at a networking event and want to identify the most successful person in the group, look to the one who's quiet but really listening.
By Kara Goldin
Thought Leaders
Leadership and Legacy Lessons From Former Intuit CEO Brad Smith
People who demand excellence don't get it nearly as often as people who inspire it.
Human Resources
3 Communication Techniques to Accelerate Your Organization’s Effectiveness
Listen, be brave, and manage your body language.
Human Resources
4 Culture Pitfalls to Avoid After Big Success
Success always brings new problems.
By John Rampton
Thought Leaders
How Listening to Your Employees Can Improve Your Business
Create 'Hero relationships' with your workers so you foster a team environment that helps fix mistakes and makes your business stronger.
Human Resources
Losing Employees to Clients or Competitors? Culture Is the Secret to Retaining Them.
Smart companies recruit and retain top talent by using these four culture-related strategies.
Thought Leaders
Are You Really Listening? 7 Barriers to Listening Effectively.
Being present and really listening to what others have to say takes patience and practice.
By John Stoker
Entrepreneurs
16 Characteristics of Critical Thinkers
Intuition is trustworthy after you have probed deeper to gain information and insight.
By Deep Patel
Business Branding
18 Ways to Showcase Your Intelligence
Geniuses can afford to be eccentric, but the merely smart need to look like they are.
By Deep Patel
Thought Leaders
Stop Interrupting and Listen to the Question
Not letting the questioner finish makes you look hasty or lacking in confidence.
By Stacey Hanke
Thought Leaders
15 Traits That Set Influential People Apart
Influential leaders spark change for the better.
By Deep Patel
Human Resources
8 Communication Tactics to Eliminate Wasting Time at Work
Listening is the best way to get your point across.
By John Rampton
Entrepreneurs
12 Actions You Can Take to Become a Better Person and a Better Leader
Leadership has little to do with dominance and a great deal to do with understanding the problems and motivations of other people.
By Deep Patel
Thought Leaders
Steven Jobs’s Wisdom Lives On
Here is what a crypto PR specialist learned from the most iconic American entrepreneur of our time.
Thought Leaders
Practice This Important Skill to Get Your Way Every Day
Listening is a powerful tool to deepen trust and understanding.
Thought Leaders
Yes, It’s Possible to Have a 100 Percent CEO-Approval Rating on Glassdoor
Want that rating for yourself? Think about transparency, stewardship of your office culture and really, really good listening skills.
Human Resources
Effective Communication Is Something You Learn, Not Something You’re Born With
Listening actively and expressing thoughts clearly are hard-earned, high-level skills.
Thought Leaders
This Entrepreneur’s Leadership Success Secret Is Simpler Than You Think
In this video, this food entrepreneur shares the importance of listening to both employees and customers.
By Rose Leadem
Human Resources
15 Ways to Command a Conversation Like a Boss
If you're the one talking, it's your responsibility to make sure others are listening.