Business Students: 3 Reasons Why You Should Be Blogging

Top Business Blogs

If you think that there isn’t a place for personal blogging in the business world, you might want to update your logic. In today’s society, blogging is a phenomenon that reaches across all industries. You might not think you have much to blog about, but you would be surprised what you can come up with [...]

Ten Lessons Learned from Lucille Ball, Entrepreneur

I Love Lucy

As I got caught up on my reading this morning, I was amazed how many column inches, pixels (and a Google logo) were dedicated to what would have been Lucille Ball’s 100thbirthday.
The more I read, the more I was reminded that the Lucy we all loved (even my kids LOVE I Love Lucy reruns) was [...]

Professional Networking: The One That Got Away

Pay It Forward Networking

When it comes to networking for my career, I guess you could say I’m a lot like most people. The thought of entering a room full of a whole bunch of people I don’t know and trying to sell myself appeals to me just about as much as throwing myself out of an airplane. Yet, [...]

Are Your Employees Satisfied?

Satisfied Employee

9 Habits That Make Contagious Startup Leaders

Contagious Leadership

Startups provide business leadership with new products, services, and new revenue models, but leadership startups can only be built by entrepreneurs who are leaders themselves, and incent leadership in the people around them. Leadership which incents other people to be leaders is called “contagious leadership.”
John Hersey, in his book “Creating Contagious Leadership,” describes nine required [...]

12 Most Inspiring Blogs for New Entrepreneurs

Startup Blogs

So you’ve decided to spread your entrepreneurial wings. Good choice. Hard choice. Get ready for an adrenaline rush – and the need for a ton of inspiration.
Sometimes that inspiration will come from obvious sources: you, your team or your sphere of influence. Other times it may come from less obvious places like customers, your children [...]

6 Keys that Make a Big Picture Work Better

business sign

Your Big Picture, the overall plan you create for you and your business is made up of many parts.
They need to make sense for you and most importantly need to be working together.
Here are 6 key areas that should be reviewed in determining if in fact your big picture is working.
1) The current business [...]

12 Survival Principles for Career and Business Success

Career Success

“These are times that try men’s souls. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.” – Thomas Paine, from The Crisis [...]

How to Drive a Modern & Remote Workforce Toward Better Results

Remote Workforce Management

Let’s face the facts: As your company moves forward, you will need to adjust to managing a workforce that’s modern — and could quite possibly be made up of remote workers. As a manager, you can keep your workforce made up of Gen Y and remote workers driven by keeping a few things in mind:
Out [...]

Is Entrepreneurship Right For You? Let’s Find Out!

Entrepreneur

There has been quite a lot said lately about how Gen Y has not only the interest, but the aptitude to take the entrepreneurial spirit to new highs.Websites and blogs have discussed numerous stories of 20-Somethings developing new products and services that will take the world by storm.  Of course, we know the rewards of [...]