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Ignore Toxic Employees at Your Peril
It takes a lot of work and commitment to grow a great team and a great company culture. It doesn’t take much to topple it. Just one toxic employee can have a cascading effect on…
Blockchain Technology: The Innovation That May Change Intellectual Property Management as We Know It
Over the last several years, it’s been impossible to ignore the disruptive force of blockchain technology. From banking and healthcare to energy and security, industry sectors across the board are hailing it as a revolutionary…
What Does It Mean to Be a User Interface Developer?
Let’s imagine that you have an idea for a startup. You have conceived an application of a very-important-for-you-sphere, which will help people do very-important-human-things. Back-end developers will help you with the technical component of the…
6 Ways to Incent Breakthrough Innovation in Your Team
Breakthrough innovation is the dream of every entrepreneur, but it’s still a scarce commodity. Selecting and nurturing people who are likely to help you in this regard is an even more elusive capability, and one…
4 Ways to Delegate at Work and Boost Productivity
As an entrepreneur, it can be tempting to try do it all yourself. Your business is your brainchild, your passion project, your reason to get up in the morning. It makes sense that you’d want…
4 Ways of Successfully Scaling Your Global Startup
There are over 214 global startups that claim to have attained the coveted “unicorn” status—meaning they’ve reached a billion-dollar valuation. Becoming a unicorn may not be the end goal of all entrepreneurs, as some may…
Don’t Let Personality Trump Performance When Performing Employee Evaluations
Conducting reviews for a company is not always straight-forward. Regardless of the sheer numbers themselves, it can be difficult to go about rating someone’s job performance. Complicating this is the fact that management often forms…
Entrepreneurs: Employment Law is Not on Your Side!
Small companies most often scrape by with borrowed or invested funds, doing everything possible to grow and prosper with limited resources. So, it is like a punch in the gut when an employee makes a…
Why You Need to Upgrade Your Onboarding and How to Do It
See if you’ve ever had a first day at a new job that went something like this: You spend a half hour or hour with someone in HR, signing papers. The person gives you a…
The 4 Cs of Contact Center Customer Service
Recently I had to call the contact center of FootJoy regarding an order I had placed on their website for golf shoes. With a size 11 woman’s shoe, it is almost impossible to find golf…
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