Stories and lessons from the struggle and success of those who have realized their entrepreneurial dreams whether as first timers or veterans.
Feeling Stressed? Don’t Suppress As a CEO you are under pressure seemingly from all sides. Maybe you feel squeezed by the need to make more revenue without more staff. Perhaps you are suffocating from long work hours with no end in sight. Stress can leave you irritable, tired and short-tempered. That is not a good […]
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Hubert Zajicek, CEO, Health Wildcatters According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), there are approximately 27 million working-age Americans currently starting or running new businesses. That means 14 percent of the population consider themselves entrepreneurs! Many startups in the U.S. have become highly successful in their respective marketplaces over the past few years. Just think – we
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Did you ever play a game as a child when you made up the rules as you went along? I’m guessing that those evolving rules often proved to be a source of contention! Leaders at work find the same to be true. When managers decide to disregard their moral compass as the official business handbook,
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Why Closing Your Eyes is a Powerful Leadership Tool. Look around. Take in everything that you see. There’s the stack of sticky notes with calls to be returned; a report that needs to be reviewed; the partially finished cost proposal for your big client; and a half-eaten sandwich sitting next to the book club book
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Pamela Evette, President & CEO, Quality Business Solutions I founded my business as a sole proprietorship in 2000 and struggled for many years through the normal growing pains associated with a start-up – deciding when and where to invest, identifying new target markets and prospects, and determining when the time was right to add new
Julie Cottineau, Founder & CEO, BrandTwist Whether you are a CEO of a Fortune 500 company or the founder of a start up with big plans, looking at branding best practices from successful brands such as Kool-Aid, Avon, Apple, and Virgin can yield some valuable lessons that can then be applied to your brand for big impact.
Simon Slade, CEO & Co-founder, SaleHoo Hiring staff can be one of the greatest challenges for a business owner because expanding your team with great talent is a constant necessity. The trend of remote work is a response to that challenge. GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics.com suggests that 50% of the US workforce holds a job that is compatible with partially
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Managers hear questions every day. Some serious; some trivial. “Are the merger rumors true?” “How much is our budget being cut?” “Can we extend our deadline a couple of days?” “Is our team going to have to work over the weekend?” But the ONE question that you have to answer correctly every single time is
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You’re wired to see what you already believe. It’s a simple statement but the implications for decision-making are complex. What you already believe is built layer upon layer from your experiences which create a filter through which you see the world. Good decision-making relies on understanding how your brain’s filter colors perception and influences interpretation.
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Michael Stausholm, Founder & CEO, Sprout It all started with an idea from a group of students at MIT in Boston back in 2012. When they got the challenge of developing ”the sustainable office article of the future”, they came up with the idea of a plantable pencil with a capsule of seeds in the
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