A few weeks ago, I wrote a special Veterans Day piece focusing on a small, but growing, community of entrepreneurs that have gone largely unnoticed in American society: military spouses. I was so impressed by the women that I met with during my research that I decided to write a follow-up article showcasing, specifically, how […]
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The growing interest in employee benefits has hit a fevered pitch this year. Many large organizations like Netflix, Microsoft, and Facebook have all recently enhanced their benefits packages. Others, like Gravity Payments, made a splash in the headlines with news of higher wages across the board. As a result, I’ve had plenty of fodder for
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Employees are disengaged and blame runs rampant. Customers are letting you know they aren’t happy by taking their dollars elsewhere. Employees read the writing on the wall and you start losing your top talent. These are just a few of the potential indicators that your culture is not supporting your company’s success. Employees “tell” their
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Veterans Day is our annual tradition of pausing for a few moments to acknowledge those men and women who have shouldered arms in defense of our nation. But with only 0.4 percent of the American population currently serving on active duty in the Armed Forces and a scant 7.3 percent of Americans alive today having
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The fearless leader fallacy harkens back to the “great man” theory of leadership, which portrayed effective leaders as those who charge fearlessly into the melee to save the day. They were “born to lead” and “looked fear in the face without blinking an eye.” Maybe this resonates with some folks out there but, for me,
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Entrepreneurship has exploded in the U.S. market in recent years. According a recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) report, there are now over twenty four million entrepreneurs in the U.S., making up 14% of the total population. There may be a number of contributing factors to this trend. Entrepreneurs are often cited as modern day adventurers
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For startups that want to stick around, growth and sustainability are the goals. But growing like Facebook or Twitter is far more difficult in reality. According to the Small Business Administration, only about half of all new businesses even survive to reach their fifth birthday. Only one-third of those make it to the 10-year mark.
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We’ve all heard stories of meteoric growth from companies like Shake Shack, Uber and Slack. And while many of these stories serve as inspiration for entrepreneurs and leaders at all levels, the reality of navigating a company through rapid growth never plays out as smoothly as these stories would have you believe. Anyone who’s ever
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Virtually every article about employee engagement I’ve read recently includes the same or similar stats. 87% of today’s business leaders cite culture and engagement as one of their top concerns (Deloitte). Only 13% of the global workforce is engaged (Gallup). And while these should still be alarming for any business leader, these stats alone don’t
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The comfort trap. It happens all the time and, to a great extent, it goes unnoticed—to everyone but our customers. We don’t do it intentionally and we don’t do it because it’s the right thing to do. We do it because we are continuously trying to find ways to make our own work lives easier.
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