Leadership
4 Growth Tips for Modern Marketing Agencies
Thanks to low barriers to entry, low-cost tools, and widespread visibility, starting a digital marketing agency is not terribly difficult. Many firms have started from a home office and continued to be managed independent of…
3 Surefire Ways to Improve Your Relationship with Employees
Management should have a good relationship with employees for a number of reasons. You want to have a way of relating to the people that work for you, but you also need to be prepared…
What Would You Do If Told to “Fail Fast”?
Here’s a question that should strike close to home. Professional investors like to quote this mantra to anyone who will listen. “Fail fast,” they say. But what if you believe so strongly in your budding…
4 Indispensable Traits of Successful Organizations in the 21st Century
To adapt the words of Marshall Goldsmith, “what got top companies to the peak of their industries in the 20th century is not what would get them to compete, let alone thrive in the fiercer…
Reasons Not to Make Decisions Today on Gut Instincts
I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who…
7 Easy Ways to Reduce Paper Consumption in Your Office
Though we now have the internet, email and digital file sharing, paper-pushing isn’t yet an anachronism in the modern office. In fact, we’re printing more paper than ever even though we’re increasingly digital. Yet the…
February Update: Three 2019 New Year’s Resolutions You Must Keep!
Here it is… we’re one month into the new year. January is over… can you believe it? Now the big question… How many of your New Year’s Resolutions have you kept? According to the New…
Why Culture Prototyping Helps Your Company Adapt to Change
I’m often asked how to best help businesses work through transition and change. After all, as the marketplace innovates faster and faster, it’s even more important that our businesses adapt seamlessly to market changes. Toward…
These 5 Industries Know How to Brace for Economic Stagnation. Do You?
The world’s economy operates in a cyclic nature where periods of economic prosperity are experienced, and then recession strikes. During the downturn, many businesses collapse and never recover, which explains why most of the companies…
13 Entrepreneurs on Their Biggest Business Mistakes
If entrepreneurship was easy, everyone would do it. Unfortunately, the reality is that half of all startups close within five years, which means you’re just as likely to fail as succeed. Sometimes failure is out…
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