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By Peter Banerjea and Joy Ghose

Scaling Up Your Business: 33 Leaders on the Biggest Mistakes to Avoid

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Scaling up a business is a very different ball game from starting a business.  A new level brings with it numerous challenges. If you get it wrong, you will either lose a lot of money, or worse - you might even have to shut down. The best way to avoid some of these mistakes is to listen to leaders who have successfully scaled up and learn from them. To know more about what mistakes one should avoid, we reached out to several leaders who have built and/or grown successful businesses. We asked … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Startups Tagged With: entrepreneurship, startups

By Steve Benson

4 Valuable Leadership Lessons From My Google Days

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I believe that Google is one of the best big companies to work at. They do a great job of building an amazing culture and they really care about their employees. It’s very impressive how they’ve been able to maintain a small company feel, in terms of speed and agility, by keeping the teams small and breaking up the company into several parts. Culture is hard to define in a company, but if everyone seems to have something in common, has the same goals, and functions as one unit, they probably … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: Leadership

By Rob Jackson

Why Managers Love it When their Teams are Uncomfortable Working Together

When you think of teamwork, do images of comradeship, triumphs, and smiles come to mind? On the surface, that's exactly what great teams look like. What you don't see, however, is the effort it takes to paint such a picture.  Good teamwork doesn't just happen. It takes careful direction and full participation from every person on board. Even then, you may still have people who don't always get along. If that is the case, your team may be positioned to become the best team yet. Yes, you read … [Read more...]

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By Peter Banerjea

How UnitedHealthcare is making Small Business Insurance Simple and Affordable

This is a sponsored post by UnitedHealthcare. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Let's face it. Small businesses have a lot of trouble attracting and retaining good talent. The most talented people still prefer to work for larger companies. And it's not always about a higher paycheck or a about the reputation of working for a bigger firm. The Staggering Insurance Gap One key reason is that smaller businesses don't offer the best health benefits. Only 54% of SMBs (with less than 200 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: health, Leadership

By Andrea S. Kramer and Alton B. Harris

Why Women Need Impression Management to be Successful at Work

The most important markers of a successful career are challenging, skill-enhancing assignments, recognition as a talented, highly motivated individual, and ever-increasing responsibility and visibility. A career with these characteristics depends in large part on the people controlling your workflow, exposure, and training having very positive impressions of you. Hard work and first-rate work product are essential, but make no mistake: unless your supervisors, colleagues, and customers/clients … [Read more...]

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By Vinnie Lynch

6 Tips to Develop a Winning Execution Plan

Whether you are launching a new business or implementing a new sales plan, a 90-day execution plan that details what needs to be done week by week and by whom provides a structure that delivers successful results. This post is essentially the “deep dive” into how you are going to deliver on the plan. Why 90-days? It’s important to allow enough time to deliver a successful project, keep the team focused, allow for unexpected challenges to be resolved and time to pivot all while having a clear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: execution, Leadership

By Jeff Thompson

How Short Term Results Obsession Damages Business Productivity

The heat is turned up, the pressure is building, the board or your boss is pushing  for action. For many of us the last economic down turn  was  a memorable struggle that tested our short term vs long term priorities. Do the values on the wall of the corporate headquarters really matter? Do those speeches during orientation or at the annual staff gathering really count? There is usually a big gap between the short term, not exactly values driven solutions and  the long term goals.  The short … [Read more...]

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By Joy Ghose

Want Better Productivity? Focus on Your Health

Want to be more productive? Want to being your 'A' game to office everyday? Keen on tackling your daily tasks with motivation? The solution is simple: Give importance to your health! It may sound unimportant or downright silly, but what you eat, how much you exercise, whether you smoke or not, all directly impact your productivity levels. A healthy diet promotes good health, and employee wellness is tied so closely to worker efficiency that 77% of lost productivity is attributable to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Productivity Tagged With: Leadership, productivity

By Peter Banerjea

How to Simplify Buying Small Business Healthcare Coverage

This is a sponsored post by UnitedHealthcare. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Let’s face it! Health care is not something that most of us prioritize. Few of us appreciate the likelihood and ramifications of the health risks we face. Around 80 percent of Americans admit that they delay or forgo health care in favor of other priorities like family or work obligations. Moreover, a large percentage also turns to Google and WebMD to self-diagnose and treat themselves at home when they do … [Read more...]

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By Peter Banerjea

7 Reasons Why Coaching Works Brilliantly as a Leadership Development Tool

Remember that time when your boss gave you that piece of advice? Your boss thought the advice was great. You did not! You were thinking, “He/she doesn’t really understand my problem!” Remember your friends telling you about how their bosses gave them bad advice? It happens to everyone right? What about when you are the boss? How often do you give advice to your team members? How do they really take it? Do they always act upon your advice? How often have you wished your people would… … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Human Resources, Leadership, Learning and Development Tagged With: Coaching, Executive Coaching, Leadership, Leadership development

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