Building a Business
Curiosity Might Have Killed the Cat. But Don’t Let It Kill You.
Ask questions! Without curiosity, there's no direction.
By Jeff Boss
Problem Solving | Page 7
Building a Business
How Asking ‘Why’ 5 Times Can Change Your Life
Getting to the root of the problem is the key to finding the real solution.
Building a Business
How Crowdsourcing Can Help You With Ideas, Content and Labor
This modern method is often the best -- and most inexpensive -- way to come up with new ideas, generate content and supplement labor for your business.
By Chuck Cohn
Building a Business
8 Problem-Solving Practices That See Startups to Success
Creating an innovative new business is guaranteed to test your skills, patience and determination, and you need to derive satisfaction from the journey, as well as the destination.
Thought Leaders
Want to Succeed? Stop Trying to Be Happy All the Time
Find out why the fastest route to failure might just involve searching for external motivation and trying to sweep your problems under the rug.
By Steve Tobak
Business News
How Writing Regularly Can Boost Your Creativity and Clarity
Entrepreneurs deal with a storm of surprises and self-doubt, and they need to constantly learn and adapt to steer the ship to safety. One of the best solutions to help overcome these challenges is writing.
By Paul Jun
Building a Business
5 Problems Business School Won’t Prepare You For
There's a limit to how much classroom learning can get you ready for the real world.
Thought Leaders
6 Remarkably Simple Steps to Becoming a Real Problem-Solver
History's greatest leaders may have complained from time to time, but they all built legacies around their innate abilities to find and execute solutions to their biggest gripes.
By Peter Gasca
Business Funding
5 Tips for Dealing With a Personal Crisis or Health Issue While Running a Business
Personal troubles happen. Don't let them derail you.
Entrepreneurs
3 Ways to Get Stress Working for You
Anxiety and stress are unpleasant but powerful motivation to to take action and solve problems.
Entrepreneurs
Why Entrepreneurs Who Complain Are Setting Themselves Up to Fail
Did you know that complaining destroys neurons in your brain's problem-solving hippocampus?
Building a Business
Being an Entrepreneur Is Stressful But Don’t Worry About It
The more we worry about what things beyond our control , the less mental energy we have for what we could do something about. Like building a business.
Building a Business
5 Questions to Help Decide If Outsourcing Is the Solution
Determining whether a problem should be solved by your team or through outsourcing requires careful analysis.
By Asha Saxena
Thought Leaders
The Secret to Winning Customers and Growing Your Business
All of your business strategy should come down winning and keeping customers.
By Steve Tobak
Thought Leaders
When Looking for a Solution, Stop Staring at the Problem
When analysis hits a deadend, walk away from the problem to free your creative mind.
Thought Leaders
4 Tips for Mentally Preparing for Overwhelming Challenges
While it is impossible to know how you might react to a situation that threatens your business, tap these strategies so you're not caught with a "stupid face."
By Peter Gasca
Thought Leaders
Why Entrepreneurs Should Be More Like ‘Gas Stoves’
Allowing yourself to quickly burn off frustration and move on from stressful situations is an incredibly valuable attribute to refine.
By Peter Gasca
Building a Business
To Grow Your Business, Start Creating Solutions Instead of Just Managing Problems
Success requires overcoming our natural tendency to protect what we have to focus on creating more of what we seek.
Thought Leaders
Stop Reacting and Start Responding
Virtually all of your thoughts and feelings are conditioned responses to past experiences. But if your strategy is flawed, you'll continue to get low returns on your efforts.
Thought Leaders
A Simple Solution to Taking Things Personally and Overreacting
When you are facing an issue, just ask yourself a simple question before taking any action.
By Stephen Key
Thought Leaders
Leadership Training Backed by Former U.S. Presidents? It’s Happening.
The first class of the Presidential Leadership Scholars program has begun.
By Nina Zipkin
Building a Business
The 3 Traits of ‘A’ Players Who Drive Companies to Success
Hiring is a notoriously tricky process. Finding the stars you need requires knowing what to look for, and how to spot it.
By Zachary Poll
Entrepreneurs
Solitude Can Be Your Most Powerful Thinking Tool
Life can be hectic at times and get the best of us. Find time to be alone with your thoughts and find solutions.
Building a Business
Throw Out the ‘Painkillers,’ ‘Vitamins’ and Other Bad Metaphors in Silicon Valley
A CEO decries a venture-capital focus on companies that provide quick fixes to symptoms rather than long-term prevention.
Tech
How to Solve a Problem In 3 Steps — Define It, Redefine It, Repeat
Often, it is only when we seek a solution that we realize the complexity what the problem really is.
Building a Business
Not in the Mood to Battle Corporate Customer Service? Get a Jerk to Do It For You.
If you're a jerk looking for work, the former head of Reddit just might have a job for you. Nice guys need not apply.
Entrepreneurs
25 Business and Life Lessons I’ve Learned Since My Mother’s Death
Achieve a breakthrough after enduring a personal loss.
By Meiko Patton