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As a business leader, you have to improvise and adapt quickly to survive and thrive in the face of the unpredictable challenges of the market. But this improvisation a not a comedy, although there are some distinct correlations, in relation to reacting, adapting, and communicating. In business and Read More

When I started mentoring aspiring founders and small businesses a few years ago, I anticipated that I would get mostly tough technology questions, but instead, I more often hear things like "Where do I start?" I find that the basic questions are actually the hardest to answer, just like your parent Read More

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is "What's the right social-media platform for my business?" Is it Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, or one of the other 100 active and emerging platforms vying for attention these days? The right answer is that not all of these are wor Read More

If you are just plain tired of working so hard or your business is not getting the traction you expected, should you shut down cleanly or just file for bankruptcy and walk away? For those who think that bankruptcy is always the easy way out, think again. Bankruptcy should always be the absolute las Read More

Everyone knows that all businesses are risky, but they also expect that the right job will be exciting and potentially very lucrative (think early employees at Facebook and Google). Yet we have all heard stories about the high turnover, toxic work environments, management biases, and unpredictable Read More

We have all heard about and perhaps envied the current crop of billionaire business founders, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates, who seem to have it all because of their financial success. Yet I am convinced, after mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs for many years, that more are motivat Read More

A business lifestyle that continues to gain in popularity these days is being a social entrepreneur. In the simplest of terms, these are people who seek to generate social value rather than profits, and use traditional business and professional career principles to provide solutions to social issue Read More

Effective communication is an absolute requirement for successfully starting or being highly productive in a business, but it doesn’t come naturally to many new venture founders and other business professionals. Communication is considered a social skill, and accountants and engineers, for example, Read More

I’m sure we have all seen business owners or professionals with high levels of passion and energy touting an idea that seems to make very little sense to us. Of course, we never see ourselves in this mode, yet we need to recognize that all humans see reality differently through a built-in set of “ Read More

One of the toughest questions I get as a mentor to business leaders and professionals is how to handle and communicate bad news and failures to employees and other constituents. The concern is exposing business weaknesses and losing the confidence which you have worked so hard to build. In my exper Read More