How to Prepare Your Small Business for Growth
Few people are prepared to grow a local company into a thriving medium-sized or large company. Here are three things you need to do to grow your small business right.
Can Dropshipping Boost Your Retail Business? Weighing the Pros and Cons
Dropshipping is an arrangement in which a distributor ships products directly to the customer on behalf of a business. Could it save your retail store money and time?
Dress Codes and Set Working Hours: Beneficial or Outdated?
Flextime options and casual dress in the workplace are hallmarks of modern business—or are they? I asked ten new and successful entrepreneurs for their take.
10 Tips From Successful Entrepreneurs on Achieving Your Company’s Long-Term Goals
Having long-term vision is one of the keys to good leadership, and necessary for any successful business. With long-term visions come long-term projects—and the longer-term the project, the harder it is to manage your team's progress towards completing it.
The Gamification Behind Loyalty Cards
In today’s world there’s a card for everything. We take a look at the gamification behind cards and other methods brands utilize to engage customers.
4 Classic Coaching Clichés That Can Help Your Startup
If there is one thing coaches love, it’s clichés. There is practically a book of coaching catchphrases that every coach and manager breaks out for pep talks. If you’ve played a sport, you’ve heard quite a few. However annoying these seemingly repetitive catchphrases are, there’s a method to the madness. The thing about clichés—what keeps them alive...
Why Founders Sometimes Fail as CEOs
Writing in TechCrunch, Ben Horowitz offers three reasons why founders fail as CEOs. The most interesting is the third: The founder doesn’t really want to be CEO. Not every inventor wants to run a company and if you don’t really want to be CEO, your chances for success will be exceptionally low. The board panics....
5 Ways to Turn Your Employees Into a True Team
That said, merely working together doesn't allow me to really know all that much about my teammates. The way I've gotten to know my teammates is through all of the team bonding activities my office puts on.
