Denise R. Green Founder, Brilliance Inc. Your people are suffering — but they won’t tell you until it’s too late. Recently, a CEO received public praise when he tweeted his appreciation and approval to an employee who announced to her team that she’d be taking two days of sick leave for her mental health. While the news […]
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Leaders aim to make their mark on business operations, imprint their philosophies on their staff, leave their legacy on the organization. They hope the team will remember their leadership as unique, profitable, and pleasant. Understandable goals. But all too often, new leaders start out with similar clichés and concepts—lines that set their staff members up
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A New York Times Best Seller, The Creative Act: A Way Of Being written by Rick Rubin, who is a multiple-Grammy-winning record producer is not exactly a business book. But entrepreneurs are creators too or at least need to be creative in their thinking and outlook, as must be all leaders. So this is a
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David Zimmerman, CEO, LC Technology International A recent headline about the exposure of voter records by a contractor working with the Republican National Committee (RNC) turned heads due to the size of the breach (nearly 200 million potential voters) and how such information was stored in an unsecured cloud account. The records could be browsed without
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Chris Schafer & Brent Carter, Authors, Intrepid Professionals: How Principles from the Military Mindset Build Extraordinary Leaders, Teams, and Businesses In a world where adaptation to chaos is a consistent requirement, leaders need an intrepid mindset – a mode of seeing, thinking, and acting that is hyper-vigilant. There are few challenging areas that need intrepid mindsets
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Felena Hanson, Author, Flight Club – Rebel, Reinvent, and Thrive: How to Launch Your Dream Business My calendar is jam-packed – It’s not unusual for me to work 12 hour days. As an entrepreneur, there is always something I “should” or “could” be doing. This isn’t a complaint but a declaration that my life is full,
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Hector Castillo, Founder & CEO, Noysi “I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy, but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.” – Plato. Music permeates my earliest memories and has always been the unique lense through which I view the world. From the age of
Rory J. Clark, Creator and Innovator, Focus Selling It may be called the “summer slump,” but it’s really a revenue slump. It happens every summer. It is the phenomenon called the “summer slump.”While vacations can be fun, it’s also a time of decreased productivity and missing creativity. Inaccurate forecasts and missed revenue targets are the norm. To
Research at the Harvard Business School has shown that Emotional Intelligence (EQ) – the ability to manage our own emotions and connect to the emotions of others – counts for twice as much as IQ and technical skills combined in determining who will be successful in their career and in life. This is true if
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The business plan. It has been the “must” for every would-be entrepreneur. When I first started out, I read all the books about how to create the perfect one before I ventured out to get funding. While everyone has their own twist on what to include, there are some typical components. They range from an
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