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Why Having the Right Advisors When Launching a Startup is So Crucial

When startups don’t have the right advisors, they waste time, money, energy and human resources — but that’s not all. According to Svetlana Kamyshanskaya, a startup advisor with extensive connections in Silicon Valley and founder...

byJT Ripton

September 21, 2022

Your Playbook For Success Means Understanding Your Workplace Rules

This is a modified excerpt from "Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact" by Liz Wiseman. Copyright 2021 by the author and reprinted by permission of Harper Business. ...

byLiz Wiseman

August 30, 2022

3 Tips to Maximize Your Energy to Live an Optimal Life as an Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs are passionate leaders with seemingly endless energy, helping to advance our world one brilliant idea at a time. Throughout my career, I’ve been humbled and honored to speak at conferences filled with entrepreneurs, and...

byRob Dube

August 12, 2022

Avoiding Dumb Decisions in a Smart Tech World: Here’s When to Listen to Your Gut

Technology has become the backbone of how modern businesses function, with all types of organizations using tech applications to manage nearly every aspect of operations, from customer service to employee engagement. Whether using smart tech...

byRikki Roehrich

July 15, 2022

Why I Would Rather Be Guided than Driven

The following is adapted from "Stop Chasing Squirrels: 6 Essentials to Find Your Purpose, Focus, and Flow" by Ted Bradshaw. Copyright 2022 by Lioncrest Publishing. When I was a young businessman, chasing possibilities didn’t...

byTed Bradshaw

June 16, 2022

Using a Startup Mindset to Benefit a Legacy Business

When you think of innovation and dynamism in the business world, what comes to mind first? Maybe it’s a young company that’s growing at hyper speed. Maybe it’s a charismatic young founder who’s using technology...

byShannon Stephenson

June 2, 2022

Is Working Weekends Worth It? Self-Made Millionaires Weigh In

Some top executives believe you need to work on the weekends to be successful in today’s connected world. Others stress the importance of setting boundaries and disconnecting. We asked six self-made millionaires and Advisors in The...

byThe Oracles

June 2, 2022

Resilience in the Face of Crisis: How to Rise Up to Challenges

The following is an excerpt from "Rise Up: Leadership Habits for Turbulent Times" by Mike Watson and Ali Grovue. Copyright 2022 by Figure 1 Publishing. Through COVID-19, my team and I at Ignite Management...

byMike Watson

May 17, 2022

5 Ways to Retain Talent by Using Relational Intelligence

The following is adapted from "Relational Intelligence: The Five Essential Skills You Need to Build Life-Changing Relationships" by Dr. Adam C. Bandelli. Stress affects all of us differently. Since the start of the COVID-19 global...

byAdam C. Bandelli

May 3, 2022

Tough Conversations: It Takes Practice

The following is an excerpt on leadership from "Leading From the Jumpseat: How To Create Extraordinary Opportunities By Handing Over Control" by Peter Docker. Copyright 2021 by Why Not Press. Despite years of facing...

byPeter Docker

April 5, 2022

CEO Excellence: Make Your Team the Star

Excerpted from "CEO EXCELLENCE: The Six Mindsets that Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest." Copyright © 2022 by Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller & Vikram Malhotra. Excerpted with permission by Scribner, a division of Simon...

byCarolyn Dewar

March 15, 2022

Entrepreneurial Studies Within MBA Programs Prepare Students for Real World

The value of textbooks and lectures delivering theory in a graduate business curriculum is unquestioned, but if there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past two years of the pandemic, in these uncertain times they...

byBarry Sandrew

March 4, 2022

9 Reasons Startups Should Hire Internal Candidates

Give one reason why a startup should hire internal candidates when looking to fill a new role? To help startups discover the benefits of internal hiring, we asked hiring managers and startup CEOs this question...

byBrett Farmiloe

March 1, 2022

How Your Startup Can Implement Effective Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Practices

Much of the dialogue about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) plans in the media has been focused on established businesses that frankly have the ability to reengineer current strategies, integrate DEI communication into current communication...

byPhyllis Reagin

February 22, 2022

Keep Burnout at Bay With These Strategies

Many years ago, I was working on a big project for a global brand. It was complex and had a lot of moving parts, but it was manageable. It didn’t require me to work a...

byTanvir Bhangoo

February 18, 2022

3 Ways to Engage Employees from a Place of Meaning, Purpose, Intrinsic Motivation, and Connection

Excerpted from "Mindfully Wise Leadership: The Secret of Today’s Leaders" by Keren Tsuk. Copyright 2021 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Mindful leadership enables us, as managers, to be mindful to ourselves, employees, customers, and the...

byKeren Tsuk

February 15, 2022

Entrepreneurs: How to Focus Ruthlessly and Win in 2022

New and aspiring entrepreneurs often fall victim to impatience and imperfection. When something’s not working perfectly to their standards (or worse, fails), they take it personally and don’t know how to move on to better...

byDmitry Dragilev

January 27, 2022

How To Use a Fishbone Diagram To Resolve Startup Issues

Fishbone diagrams are tools used to help diagnose the cause of problems. They are also called cause-and-effect diagrams, fish disease, fish snap method, and Ishikawa diagrams. Additionally, these diagrams are typically used in the problem-solving...

byJT Ripton

December 15, 2021

How to Take the Leap and Change Your Life

The following is excerpted from “Jump: Dare to Do What Scares You in Business and Life” by Kim Perell, pp. 3-7 (HarperCollins Leadership, November 2021). It’s scary looking down. Especially when there’s a lot...

byKim Perell

November 2, 2021

Company Values Provide a Plan of Attack to Get Back on Track

Excerpted from "The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More With Less" by Sahil Lavingia, in agreement with Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © Sahil...

bySahil Lavingia

October 26, 2021