Leadership Posts

Search for the term mercenary or missionary in business or entrepreneurship and you will find that there are several articles written on the subject. While most authors seem to favor…

Marty Zwilling, our firm’s Chief Knowledge Officer and the Founder & CEO of Startup Professionals, could not have known about Covid-19 back in May 2019 when he wrote an excellent…

Entrepreneurs are problem solvers. Most begin their business because they noticed a problem and have created a solution that they want to share with the world. Once the journey of…

Learning is at the core of entrepreneurial success. Not only do successful entrepreneurs know how to learn, they know what to learn, and they organize their work/life schedule so that…

Lessons I Learned from My Father About Leadership In my prior post, I described how my father influenced my views on leadership and how I used these lessons in my…

Lessons I Learned from My Father About Leadership My father ran a small HVAC company in the Midwest. Growing up, I didn’t know much about it until the summer I…

Successfully starting and running a business requires leadership skills, and each phase of your business will need different abilities to do so effectively. Additionally, markets and society rapidly change, which…

If you listen primarily to the popular press, they could easily convince you that all successful startup businesses are built by one smart person, such as Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook…

History is full of leaders who were confident, charismatic, and completely wrong. From Custer’s last stand to Napoleon, leaders have been overly confident and ignored warnings. How is today’s entrepreneur,…

What is the difference between an argument and a thoughtful disagreement? You might think that it’s the decibels of the voices or the intellectual value of the topic, but underneath…