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You can't survive as a new business founder without resilience, because you are going to fail at least once, maybe multiple times. That's the nature of trying something that's never been done before. Resilience means not giving up and being energized by what you have learned. As Thomas Edison said, Read More

During my experience in business, I have met or worked for many executives who are strong and recognized leaders, and dealt with others who have similar positions and titles, but are unable to lead effectively. The differences always seemed more mental and emotional, rather than skill or experience Read More

As a business advisor, one of the most disheartening things I see in business today is a serious lack of commitment at all levels, consistent with various global engagement surveys, finding that less than twenty percent of workers fully engaged in their job. I see people walking around every day li Read More

More business owners want to be socially responsible these days, but fear a negative impact on profits, growth, and the ability to find investors. In the short run, there are real costs associated with the triple bottom line of maximizing profit, people (social), and planet (environment). But very Read More

As a business advisor and former angel investor, I often get asked how venture capitalists (VCs) pick winners when they invest, and what to look for in innovative new growth opportunities. Everyone seems to recognize that existing business are very slow to innovate internally and often get overrun Read More

In case you hadn’t noticed, the world of business is becoming more and more a “gig economy.” This simply means that the number of people with a long-term single-employer agreement is going down, and the number of short-term contractors and freelancers is going up. It’s good for professionals, who g Read More

Any business founder with a vision can postulate a new business, but it takes the collaboration of many people to make it a success. Today the complexity of forces required for success include multidisciplinary skills, competencies, and experiences in which the whole is greater than the sum of the Read More

Every business founder wishes that he could predict whether his idea could be the "next big thing," before he spent his life savings and years of energy on it. Investors, on the other hand, typically don't even look very hard at the product or service but prefer to evaluate first the business owner Read More

As a business consultant, I too often encounter pressures to support business processes or decisions that seem to skirt the boundaries of ethics, all in the name of improving the business or solving a competitive incursion. I’m a firm believer that the benefits of ethical decision-making always out Read More

Every dedicated business professional I know can’t find enough hours in a day to do their best work, and yet they often find themselves saying yes to new requests from the people around them. In some cases it may be fear of retribution by the boss, but more often they just hate to disappoint others Read More