Seeking help and guidance from a mentor is a strong business move for any business owner. Especially if you are a new business owner, having access to a collaborative partner, their well-built network, and their (likely vast) experience can be priceless. It definitely can reduce time and energy lost to costly mistakes your mentor can […]

  Being successful in today’s world has a lot to do with determination and perseverance. With both of those key factors in play, along with a bit of help from the connections you’ve made networking along the way, you’ve basically set yourself up for success in the business industry.   It’s very likely your professional […]

  Innovation… some would say it’s the key to business growth.   After all, one of the biggest elements of business success is widely acknowledged to be the ability to see a “gap” in the marketplace for which there is a demand and then fill it better, cheaper, or faster than the competition.   Truly, […]

Innovation in your business or organization can’t be your sole responsibility. Sure, maybe at first it might work if you are the sole innovator.   Over time, however, this is not sustainable. After all, if your business cannot survive and grow without you, then you don’t “have a business” but rather you ARE THE BUSINESS. […]

Recently, we discussed ethics in business and organizations. We clarified what “ethics” mean and specifically, what ethics and ethical behavior mean to — and in — a business. But what if your business doesn’t currently have an Ethical Code? Do you just randomly practice what you personally think or feel ethics to be? [H2] What […]

Ethics. Very rarely does a single word bring up so many different connotations, definitions, and even, applications.   Yet, are “ethics” really so subjective that so many people have so many different ideas of what the word even means, much less how to apply “ethics?”    And what about ethics in business?   If ethics […]

Microsoft recently performed a study, steeped in significant analysis of a ton of data, to determine the, “…ideal number of hours for leaders to work.”   An article in Inc. magazine on the Microsoft leadership and sleep study likened it to baseball’s famous statistical experiment—Moneyball:   “As anyone who follows baseball or saw the 2011 film Moneyball knows, […]

  For business owners, experiencing or feeling a certain level of “uncertainty” is a fairly normal or common thing. After all, most of the decisions we face as business owners might have more than one “right” decision, be dependent on the beliefs or actions of others, or even encompass a variety of factors that fall […]

Listening… it seems like such a simple thing to do. Yet, “not listening” is one of the biggest reasons that relationships fail. This is true whether those relationships are personal or professional (see https://www.websitemagazine.com/blog/the-impact-of-listening-to-customers). The statistics in a recent Infographic produced by Eureka (linked above) seem to prove this without a doubt. Pretty much everything […]

You’ve probably heard, thought and talked about “credibility” more than a few times in your life. But have you REALLY thought about—your credibility, the credibility of your business and what both mean to your success? First, it’s important to understand what exactly credibility is by definition. Credibility is the quality of being believable or worthy […]