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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

Every business I know is intimately familiar with outbound marketing, or pushing your message out to customers through email, newspaper, and television advertising. Only a few equally understand the process and value of inbound marketing, for pulling customers to your brand. In my experience, it’s 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

In this age of social media and world-wide Internet, message delivery from business leaders needs to change, just like the message changes from leaders in your personal lives. Just a few years ago, no one could have imagined getting text messages from parents, or a President prone to communicate vi Read More

One thing is certain in any business – not everyone you have to deal with will be like you, or will like you (and vice versa). These people may include one of your business partners, an investor, a key vendor, or even one of your best customers. In my role as a business advisor, I see more and more Read More