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Technical proficiency, once a guarantee of lifetime employment, has become commoditized in today’s job market. What employers now want, and what truly differentiates high and low performers, is attitude.
Read More »Box CEO Aaron Levie: To Create Something Exceptional, Do Sweat The Small Stuff
Business schools and most jobs don’t teach you how important it is to sweat the small stuff.
Read More »Give Your Organization a Reason to Believe in Itself
Three questions you should ask to define the purpose of your company, and why. In my research into the origins of organizational purpose one thing impressed me about those leaders in the social service sector.
Read More »Toss the Bad Apple Employee
One bad employee can quickly turn a positive working environment into a divisive and negative atmosphere. The comedian Larry Miller once quipped "I don't understand couples that break up and get back together—especially couples who divorce and remarry. That's like pouring milk on a bowl of cereal, tasting it, and saying, 'This milk is sour
Read More »Gen Y Is Entrepreneurial? Who Says?
Commentators are claiming that Gen Y-ers and Millennials are start-up naturals, and great salespeople.
Read More »Easing Your Company Into Workplace Flexibility
The "Flex and the C-Suite" series periodically showcases leaders who have made flexibility at work a key strategy for achieving smarter and better business results.
Read More »10 Steps To Great Leadership
I never went to CEO school. But here's how I learned to drive my business forward profitably. Hint: Its not just about number crunching
Read More »Confessions from a Silicon Prairie Start-up Founder
You're far from VCs and surrounded by people who don't like risks. Then again, the potential to be a big fish in a small pond is huge. Launching a tech start-up outside the VC-obsessed Silicon Valley and New York City comes with a catch-22.
Read More »The Company That Outlawed Email
What if you came into work everyday with zero messages in your inbox? What if you didn't even have an inbox
Read More »Golf, The Abominable Game That Won’t Help Your Career
On a summer day in 1975, I stepped up the tee at the Liberty Country Club .
Read More »Your Employees Need a Tree House
Rope bridge? Check.
Read More »Cheap Ways to Boost Company Morale
Don't show 'em the money (even if you have it).
Read More »Why Entrepreneurs Should Celebrate this Thanksgiving
We have plenty of reasons to complain. High unemployment, a frozen political system, an economy still struggling to get out of recession. Let's focus on the good stuff instead.
Read More »Entrepreneurship Everywhere
Seven million people in 115 countries are participating in Global Entrepreneurship Week competitions, awards, and other idea-generating activities as you read this. In honor of the third annual Global Entrepreneurship Week, BizBuySell, an online marketplace of businesses for sale, tells the entrepreneurship story from Canada to Colombia with statistics and other fun facts. BizBuySell, a marketplace of businesses for sale, offers about 45,000 U.S.
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