Can the strict rules applied in the army be useful in business and life? Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, who were commanders of navy SEAL special forces, askthis in their book Extreme Leadership. The Navy SEALs elite tactics prove that the answer is “yes.” The Navy SEALs are elite U.S. military units that were created […]
Leadership
How to Use COVID-19 Crisis to Refocus Your SME
There may be no business in America that has not felt the impact of COVID-19 one way or another. SMEs are more likely to be disproportionately affected by the crisis; in fact, more than 60 percent of smaller businesses believed that their revenue was likely to shrink in the next six months. Where larger businesses […]
Why Great Leaders Need to Develop Emotional Intelligence
Leading a team isn’t an easy job on a good day. Our current circumstances, driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, mean that good leadership is more important than ever, but also more difficult than ever. What can leaders do to blaze the trail for their teams? Right now, the best way to improve your leadership skills […]
Especially Now: Play nice!
To survive this nasty Covid-19 surge facing businesses of all types, leaders must make decisions that hurt but are necessary. Keep the employees for the SBA PPP requirements regarding loan forgiveness, or furlough or let good employees go, so they can file unemployment claims? And what about termination decisions you make affecting just the few […]
Solving Digital Challenges as a Bridge to Leadership
Sound leadership might be defined as the quality associated with being able to navigate a group of people through a complex set of challenges. In 2020, with much of the world experiencing an unprecedented upheaval as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak; current circumstances have separated the wheat from the chaff when it comes to […]
Could You Be Your Company’s Bottleneck?
So many tasks; so little time As a manager, you have a number of critical tasks that are general to your position as opposed to specific to your industry. These include ensuring the continued health of the organization, setting the moral compass for your stakeholders, providing for succession by training and documenting, leading the effort […]
Remember the FAIRNESS Doctrine to Avoid Lawsuit Threats
Reduce the emotion; reduce the threat of lawsuit. You’ve almost certainly experienced an angry “it’s unfair” outburst from an associate or employee. Usually it’s just after they’ve learned of an action that they took as “unfair,” no matter how rational the explanation by the decision maker. Most emotional responses to decisions in business are generated […]
A Culture of Teamwork Starts at Home
My parents’ example was a lifelong lesson in the most fundamental fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Dad pursued his two passions—religion and education—while always finding ways to keep us fed, clothed, and housed. He never put our welfare on the line. He might have been a preacher, but he never preached to us. He walked the walk. […]
Just 5% of Small Business Owners Have Received PPP Money
Small business owners are anxiously waiting to see if Congress will inject more money into the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the federal rescue program that failed to reach the vast majority of small businesses it was intended to help the first time around. A new LendingTree survey found that just 5% of business owners have […]
The Future of Work-Life Balance? Over Half of the US Supports a 4-Day Week
New survey finds majority of Americans have experienced symptoms of workaholism Just 47% regularly get 8 hours of sleep each day, but 71% work at least 8 hours With large swathes of the world population working from home in quarantine and isolation among these uncertain times, the line between work and leisure can easily be […]
