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Zoom’s Return-To-Office Could Doom The Company
Exceptional leaders often excel as skilled storytellers, and for good reason. Once a company hits a certain level of organizational complexity, one of the most important tasks the CEO has is to craft intellectually coherent and captivating narratives about the firm, its purpose, and its performance. Failure in this task means undermining the very existence of the company; a sin…
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8 Ways to Build a Business That Can Run Without You
Entrepreneurship is a hard road. There's no rule book, and as a business owner, it can feel like you're always on call.Each summer, before my children start school again, I put that life on pause. We load up our RV and head out for a multi-week trip. I don't invite…
10 Underrated Podcasts Every Entrepreneur Should Listen To
As entrepreneurs, we're constantly bombarded with recommendations for the same big-name podcasts (How I Built This, The Tim Ferriss Show or Masters of Scale). They're good, but they've become the mainstream playlists of the entrepreneurial world. The real edge comes from discovering voices that are flying under the radar —…
The Most Dangerous Word in Entrepreneurship is “Try”
Image credit: Courtesy of Carla OndrasikIf you want to build a business, there's one word you need to eliminate from your vocabulary: It's the word try.Sometimes, we aren't even given the option to try. For example, when the airline issues your boarding pass, the message isn't "try to be at…
The 5 Leadership Habits That Quietly Kill Trust in a Team
In times of crisis, employees pay great attention to what their leader is like. It is in these moments that trust shifts from a "soft value" to a strategic asset that directly affects motivation, retention and even financial results.Companies with high levels of trust outperform competitors in efficiency by up…
Can Startup Founders Become Great CEOs?
As your business evolves from startup to growth stage, so must your role. You may decide to stay small, especially if you like to do everything yourself, and that's okay. But if you dream of scaling up, you will need an effective CEO. Until you have enough money to bring…
How to Build a Reputation That Survives Any Crisis
When we imagine power, we often think of prestigious titles, millions of followers or frequent media appearances. But in entrepreneurial practice, these are fragile assets: A single crisis can erase them in hours. The difference between those who survive and those who vanish? Reputation — an invisible form of capital…
What Leaders Can Learn From the First 1,000 Days of ChatGPT
This September marks 1,000 days since ChatGPT entered public consciousness. In that short time, the world has undergone a seismic shift. AI, once a buzzword, has become a foundational force — reshaping workflows, boardroom agendas and entire industries. No organization or country, large or small, was immune. Generative AI, alongside…
3 Continuity Plan Failures That Toppled Industry Giants
A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is often something that many professionals do not pay close attention to. History has shown us that even industry giants can be humbled and collapse or lose significant income when they overlook critical vulnerabilities in their preparation for crises.This can range from overconfidence in their…
How to Protect Your Company From Deepfake Fraud
In 2024, a scammer used deepfake audio and video to impersonate Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna and attempted to authorize a wire transfer, reportedly tied to an acquisition. Ferrari never confirmed the amount, which rumors placed in the millions of euros.The scheme failed when an executive assistant stopped it by asking…
‘Quiet Cracking’ Is a New Workplace Phenomenon
We've all heard about "quiet quitting," when employees perform the very bare minimum of their jobs. Now, new research from corporate training platform TalentLMS identifies an early stage of that problem, which can be just as detrimental to worker and employer happiness: "quiet cracking."TalentLMS defines quiet cracking as "a persistent…
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