team players

Growing a Business

Startup Founders Must Embrace These 5 Strategies to Become Strong Team Players and Propel Their Businesses Forward

Your business can only grow to the extent that your abilities as a team player grow, and my experience has shown that cultivating the following five attributes can make you a team player who is well-positioned to see your business grow.

Leadership

Quit Micromanaging and Start Delegating — 4 Ways Successful People Share Responsibility

When you quit micromanaging and focus on letting others provide their highest value, magic happens

Growth Strategies

Defining & Executing Strategy is a Journey, and Each One Has its Own Path

Being a Bottom-line Player can be a perfectly acceptable strategy, if that is what the company wants to achieve and does not want to grab market share

Leadership

5 Secret Tests By VCs To Make Checks On Your Startup Team

Build your team with confidence and bask in the glory of developing a winning startup team

Leadership

10 Ways You Hurt Yourself When You Won't be a Team Player

Consider the feelings of others on the team. They want to accomplish the same things as you.

Business News

Are You a Lone Wolf?

Consider how having a team might be helpful to you.

Growing a Business

Want That Promotion? Rein in Your Quirks, and Be a True Team Player.

Here are three ways to become a shining example of company culture -- a best-bet for a pay-raise.

Leadership

Whether You're For Villanova or North Carolina, Learn How Your Team Can Have Its Own 'One Shining Moment'

Unless you're the '76 Hoosiers, your team will encounter losses or setbacks. It's the champions who are able to re-calibrate after a defeat, learn from it and use it to push them forward.

Thought Leaders

How This Entrepreneur's Staff Saved His Business...and His Life

The collapse of a business taught one founder that the character of the people he hired mattered more than their skills when the crunch came.

Growing a Business

7 Personality Types That Can Make or Break Your Meeting

Review this list and consider some techniques to learn how to run a business gathering that's nearly conflict free.

Employee Experience & Recruiting

5 Ways to Get Naysayers to Participate in Team Building

Off-site activities can help build a company's culture in a way that's relayed back to the workplace. Don't undermine their value by forgetting to highlight their purpose and document them for the future.

Growing a Business

How to Hire People Who Fit a Company's Culture

Hiring employees who understand and exemplify corporate values serves to reinforce the organization's mission and vision and create a tighter team.