Everything comes with an expiration date. Your college diploma, your knowledge and experience become dated, even your life won’t last forever. Yesterday is gone, and with it all the old rules, processes and techniques. Business is evolving at a staggering rate, and if you are not on the steamroller you will be under it. There [...]

The concept of power is an important thing for entrepreneurs. As the owner, one might say that you’ve achieved your position in your company because you have more power than the others. But what would happen if you gave some of that power away to your subordinates? Many leaders are reluctant, even loath, to hand [...]

You don’t know everything. You do know that, don’t you? As humans we have the capacity to do amazing things that our ancestors couldn’t fathom. Let me list a few of the accomplishments of the 20th century: the incandescent bulb, phonograph, telephone, automobile, airplane, nuclear power (and bombs), space travel,  transistor, personal computer, artificial hearts [...]

The turning of the year is an opportunity to think about our strengths and identify our weaknesses — the blind spots in management skill that may be keeping our businesses from being more successful. In a recent article for GigaOM, entrepreneur Amber Singleton Riviere of Upstart Smart identified three common leadership blind spots. I’ve got [...]

If you’re eager to put the past year behind you and start fresh, you’ve got plenty of company. More companies are shifting focus from tactical topics, such as sales, to more strategic topics, such as leadership, according to AmyK Hutchens of AmyK International Inc., a leadership and sales training company based in San Diego, Calif. “Everyone was so [...]