One of the toughest decisions facing any executive is how to know when to change jobs. Often we feel such loyalty to our place of work that the thought of…
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If you’re a business owner, you’ve probably encountered a situation where you’ve had to adapt your business model to fit a changing market. A good business model change example would…
I frequently talk with entrepreneurs and executives that are entirely self-taught. They are incredibly optimistic and have exceptional technical expertise in their industry. Their business skills are primarily learned on…
Experimentation in business can lead to breakthroughs and improved goods or services. Too many business experiments, while it might feel safer to test every option, can lead to wasted time and mismanaged results.
Have you ever gotten off the highway only to find that normal speed limits feel far too slow? Experts call this “becoming velocitized.” I see this frequently in business leaders—the hard-charging, over-achieving executive adapts their lifestyle to an incredibly fast hybrid blend of business and family life.
Meetings are, without a doubt, the fastest way to waste time in the workplace. Meetings aren’t inherently wrong, but between late arrivals, off-topic tangents, and lack of structure, it’s common to have hour-long sessions where hardly anything gets done. Worse still are the meetings that could have easily been a phone call or email instead.
