Leadership

If you set your bar at "amazing," it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either.[read more]

Studies show that on average a self-employed person works 4.4 more hours per week than an average employee at a company, and they are also more likely to report higher levels of stress than a typical person who is employed by someone else. And yet they tend to be happier. Why?[read more]

What are the top drivers of employee engagement? Find out what works to get your employees fully involved in helping your organization win. According to a survey, 54% said their company did not have an explicit employee engagement program. Thirty-eight percent said they did have such programs. The remaining 7% did not know.[read more]

I am excited about the combination with Yahoo. When Marissa took over Yahoo, I expected that acquisitions would play a role in her transformation of the company. At the time I wrote that the ideal target would be “startups that have very talented people and also interesting products but could benefit from the scale of Yahoo.”[read more]

It’s not your job to defend your team. It’s your job to improve your team. Upon reflection, all of the great CEOs and executives that I’ve ever worked with believe this and behave this way.[read more]

Well known author and academic Richard Florida has written extensively about the rise of the creative class. According to his work, the creative class - a grouping of knowledge-based professions - has rapidly increased its share of total employment over the last 2 decades and now comprises about one third of all U.S. jobs.[read more]

If innovation seems like some mystifying, unfathomable task, these “Playing With Your Brain” exercises can take much of the mystery out of the process.[read more]

Harvest ideas. Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.[read more]

If we're in a position to initiate something new or different, the time we've invested building solid relationships can determine our ability to gain support and moment. The leader who spends time playing corporate video poker may revel in his individual genius, but lacks the relational chips needed to convert that genius into action.[read more]

Three simple yet powerful words can hold the key to getting unstuck when trying to resolve difficult problems. Here’s how to use them.[read more]

The prospects that are the easiest to engage with online--the ones that believe big promises, simple come-ons and garish interfaces--are often the very people who will become your lowest-value customers.[read more]

In alignment with Quantum Theory, our unconscious minds select to focus on only a fragment of the information available to us, based on what we expect and what matches our programs. We delete all the rest of the information, including the options and choices that are associated with that information.[read more]

There is also speculation that we have reached “peak sustainability” in that chief sustainability officer position creation is on the decline. Within that speculation is whether or not sustainability is starting to be adopted as a standard business strategy that no longer needs a specific champion, or if it is being absorbed by the existing c-Suite.[read more]

Margaret Thatcher grew up as the daughter of a grocer; the family lived over the store (there was no hot water or an indoor toilet). At home she learned the value of hard work. Thatcher went on to a brief career in chemistry and ultimately to be Britain’s first woman Prime Minister, a post she held for 11 years.[read more]

According to Professor Sean Wise, who claims to have worked with more than 15,000 entrepreneurs, no matter how great the idea and the opportunity, in the end it is only the execution that creates change and generates wealth.[read more]

I was hooked from the title alone. Intuitively, I know inspired people produce better than uninspired people. 

Kingsley has chapters on ten leadership concepts that create inspiration.[read more]

We make a lot of early stage investments and we work hard with those companies to help them succeed. But if you hung out at USV, you would see that we spend a lot of time on policy stuff. And that begs the question "why do you do that?"[read more]

This is an in-depth book that is likely to make its way into the classic leadership book category. It is research based. I love and believe in their theory that leadership can be learned and involves a number of "learnable skills."[read more]

So when it comes to leadership development, what’s the difference between a CEO that is just “involved” and one that is really committed? Here are 10 things that I believe would give any CEO the best return on their time invested.[read more]

In looking back at your recent work performance, how have you stepped up your game in order to make yourself a better employee, one who could potentially run their own small business one day?[read more]