For Your Inspiration vol. 60

Critical Mistakes New Business Owners Make There’s no doubt that starting a business is exciting. You finally get to have full control over your work and create your own hours … The Startup Magazine Business Entity Types 101: Is It Time to Rethink Your Business...

For Your Inspiration vol. 59

Conducting Productive Virtual Meetings Despite the COVID-19 pandemic shaking up our world right now, business owners, employees, and stakeholders still need to have meetings, maybe now more than ever. Here are 10 tips on how to conduct effective meetings virtually …...

For Your Inspiration vol. 58

Communicating Through the Coronavirus Crisis The coronavirus epidemic seemed far away for me until last week. Then came news reports about someone infected in New Hampshire. Rumors … Harvard Business Review Why Recession Can Lead to Reinvention The current coronavirus...

For Your Inspiration vol. 57

The Key to Inclusive Leadership What makes people feel included in organizations? Feel that they are treated fairly and respectfully, are valued and belong? Many things of course, including an organization’s mission, policies, and practices, as well … Harvard Business...

For Your Inspiration vol. 56

Overworked? Which Tasks to Hand Off Are you convinced that you’re indispensable and that everything you do is critical? Yet you feel underappreciated, stuck in your current position, and torn between prioritizing every task and your own well-being? Meet Suleikha …...

For Your Inspiration vol. 55

Leadership Storytelling Helps You Connect With Anyone When Hubert Joly took the helm at Best Buy from 2012 to mid-2019, one of his first moves was to get managers to connect with their direct reports. Specifically, he wanted managers to understand their employees’...

For Your Inspiration vol. 54

Nothing Is More Valuable In Business Than Relationships On this episode of The Playbook, Managing Partner of SeventySix Capital Wayne Kimmel provides insights on: How a law degree can give venture capitalists an edge on the competition [1:49]. Why you can’t find the...

For Your Inspiration vol. 53

How Busy Are You, Really? Here Are 5 Ways to Find Out Are you busy, or just busy bragging? You might feel personally attacked by this question, but it’s a legitimate one—and one that’s been on minds of most bosses in all industries, especially in the past couple of...

For Your Inspiration vol. 52

Build a Great Relationship with a Mentor The research on the power of mentorship is pretty clear: People with mentors perform better, advance in their careers faster, and even experience more work-life satisfaction. And mentors benefit, too. After all, “to teach is to...

For Your Inspiration vol. 51

How To Overcome Major Life Setbacks A few years ago, I met with a portfolio manager who had a long track record of success. He had built a large position in the stock … Forbes First-time leaders need to stick to these 4 truths to succeed You have just been promoted to...