I’m a Survivor: 5 Things Successful Entrepreneurs Do

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Small businesses are vital to the American economy, accounting for over 45 percent of the GDP and around 80 percent of jobs. However, the statistics on small business failure are bleak. Statistics indicate that one-third of businesses fail within the first two years, and only about 50 percent survive beyond...

Behavioral Patterns vs. Qualifications: What Every Hiring Manager Should Know

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Good employees are hard to find. Great employees are almost impossible. You may think you’re upping your chances of landing that next great employee through your current hiring methods, but instead, you may be hurting your chances from the start. When you decide it’s time to add a member to your team,...

Enhance Your Leadership Presence with Acting Improvisation

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] To enhance your leadership presence and credibility when you make presentations, pitch to clients/prospects, and speak your “elevator speech”, borrow a technique from actors! One of the most powerful ways to become more persuasive when you speak is to practice the serious fun of acting improvisation. The power to speak with...

3 Motivation Killers Every Entrepreneur Needs to Avoid

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] One of the big challenges you face as an entrepreneur is self-motivation. I’ve been journaling on self-motivation for many years now, because I struggle with it myself. Aside from taking care of my clients and doing the things that I absolutely love to do, there’s a lot of less exciting tasks...

Why I Love Insignificant Things (And You Should Too)

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] I spend a lot of time observing insignificant things. The only reason I first realized this was because of an annual ritual I started more than five years ago where I would collect these bits of insignificance and arrange them into curated ideas that I felt described a shift in how consumers...