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Leadership

Avoid These 5 Critical Mistakes All Leaders Make

Mistakes are unpleasant and can be embarrassing. If acknowledged and dealt with in a timely manner, they can become a good source of learning and experience.

Leadership

8 Common Mistakes You Might Be Making as a Leader (and How to Fix Them)

Many leaders struggle to find their footing, and may make mistakes along their journey. Here are a few you might be making yourself.

Growing a Business

Think You Screwed Up? These 6 Business Leaders Share Their Big Mistake — and Lesson Learned

Too often, we think a leader has to be right. But these businesses transformed when their leaders realized they'd had it wrong all along.

Growing a Business

I Watch Great Teams Make These Business-Destroying Mistakes All The Time. Here's Where They're Going Wrong (And How To Fix It).

Identifying who you serve and concentrating your marketing efforts where your message will be heard establishes your offering, builds your brand, and strengthens your competitive advantage.

Resumes & Interviewing

Are You Guilty of Poor Onboarding? The Consequences Are Worse Than You Think.

The onboarding process has a profound effect on your employee satisfaction, retention and productivity. Harness these actionable strategies to optimize your onboarding process, ensuring a smooth transition for new hires.

Starting a Business

I Accidentally Became a Successful Entrepreneur. Here Are 5 Mistakes I Learned to Avoid When Starting a Business

PR is, at its core, storytelling. And the story of my now-thriving solo-owned business has been fraught with as many mistakes as successes, as many fall down the ladder as steps up. It's from my missteps, in fact, that I learned even more than from my triumphs, and this article presents 5 of my biggest blunders on the road to a flourishing small business.

Growing a Business

Business Owners: Are You Making These 10 Mistakes?

Don't let mistakes with simple fixes hold you back from growing your business. Here's what to avoid.

Branding

Avoid these 4 Fatal Branding Mistakes or Risk Business Failure

Build an authentic brand by avoiding these mistakes.

Growing a Business

6 Things You Gain By Embracing Failure and Learning From Mistakes

Are you going to look at failure as the end, or are you going to take what didn't work as a lesson and do better? It all depends on your attitude.

Thought Leaders

6 Grammatical Errors That Need to Stop Now

Want people to take you seriously as a professional? Then don't write a message that looks like a text from a high school student.

Growing a Business

'Yesterday Never Happened and Tomorrow Never Will': Why Your Business Strategy Needs to Use This Motto

Our problems are in the past, but solving them is what we can do today.

Money & Finance

Avoid These 3 Common Airbnb Mistakes

Got an Airbnb business that's performing poorly? There are several ways to solve the problem. Let's talk about those here.

Starting a Business

3 Things I Learned in the First 3 Months of Starting My Company

Starting a new business comes with financial, technical and employee-related hurdles that one may not think to plan for ahead of time.

Starting a Business

Building a Business? Here Are 4 Common Challenges You'll Likely Face Along the Way

When launching a startup, knowing where the hurdles are makes it much easier to clear them.

Leadership

This Dangerous Judgement Error Could Cost You Your Business

This mistake happens more often than you think — and in some cases, proves deadly.