Bradley W. Smith, CEO & Co-founder,Rescue One Financial In our fast-paced digital economy, time goes by at the speed of your bandwidth. Balancing competing priorities at home and at work can make it easy to fall behind on crucial job responsibilities and leave you with almost no time to devote to your family and friends. […]
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John Hope Bryant Leadership is not just about making businesses profitable. As a part of their community, business leaders have the ability and an obligation to help their communities thrive. When community members feel a sense of hope–because they have an opportunity to participate fully in our free enterprise system, build savings, and care for
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Lynn D. Ahbonbon The life of corporate executives or entrepreneurs is fast-paced and stressful. As a result, they end up eating fast and convenient foods. Today, we eat highly processed foods, loaded with trans fats, salt and sugar. Unfortunately, many people eat the wrong food, thinking it is good for them, because, they are bombarded
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Lawrence Polsky, MD, PeopleNRG.com Are women business leaders still subjected to a double standard and called “bitchy” just for doing their jobs? Based on the responses of a recent survey we conducted, the answer is yes. Working as an executive team coach over 20 years, 90 percent of the leaders I have coached are women. I
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Dr. Martin Turner, Co-Author, What Business Can Learn From Sport Psychology Pressure is a perception. It manifests in situations where you perceive the importance of performing well to be high, and where you perceive the demands of the situation to be great. That investment pitch, that presentation, or that interview. Your business environment is full
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Fred J. Conforti, Author, Beyond Goals…Beyond LEAN In the previous article we talked about needing a vision for the future. We also outlined the typical shortcomings keeping any company from being the best it can be. Now let’s look at one of the most common shortcomings keeping companies from reaching their vision– no Plan. Not
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Anton MItchell, President, Quviant We all have a war story about the boss who just couldn’t help themselves and needed to touch every process and nook and cranny of the project. This behavior puts employees in CYA mode and crushes creativity and calculated risk taking. Whether micro-managing is a control issue, delegation gone wrong or just a
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Anton MItchell, President, Quviant Based on my experience working with hundreds of teams compelled to use EVMS to bid large scale defense contracts, I’ve become a fan. EVMS or Earned Value Management System is the most comprehensive trend analysis technique available for managing programs and projects. By using trend data, EVM, aka performance measures are proven to
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Fiona Brophy, Partner, Perkins Coie There was much fanfare around the passing of the JOBS Act, especially around the relaxation of the securities laws with respect to the use of “general solicitations.” Notwithstanding the excitement in the blogosphere, the revised rules also come with some hidden costs that CEOs should be aware of and that make
Jeremy Kingsley, President, OneLife Leadership The generation that by most definitions we call the Millennials are becoming well established in the workforce. They’ve paved the way for their elders to become more accustomed to tattoos, more appreciative of diversity, and less insistent on spending office hours in an actual office. So now it’s time to start preparing
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