How to Inspire Inspired Leadership
I’ve often said that creating and building a business is not a one-man show, even though it usually springs from the mind and determination of one person – committees don’t…
Leadership Posts
Building the Co-Founding Startup Team
If you are a first-time entrepreneur, I often recommend that you team with a co-founder with experiences, connections, and a skill set that complements but doesn’t duplicate yours. Even experienced…
Crash Course in Entrepreneurial Leadership
Starting and building a company is all about leadership – formulating an idea, building a unique plan based on vision and experience, and forging a path over and through all…
Good Ethics is Good Business
Did you ever wonder how a new entrepreneur knows how to “do the right thing” for his business? Most experts believe that the essence of doing the right thing is…
Reap Rewards with the Right Advisory Board
Every startup faces a myriad of challenges that are well beyond the scope of any founder, so you need a few guiding lights to illuminate the road ahead. These should…
Spot Dysfunction at the Top
Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and leadership. Sometimes…
Are Women the New Men?
It looks like women have caught up with men in numbers in the workplace. For the first time in history, women in the USA now outnumber men in the workforce,…
Be the Leader Teams Love to Follow
Startups provide business leaders with new products, services, and new revenue models, but leadership startups can only be built by entrepreneurs who are themselves leaders, and who incent leadership in…
The World Doesn’t Owe You Funding
Where did this pervasive sense of entitlement in our culture come from? I’ve written about this before, but I was surprised again recently at a conference for startups when a…
8 Signs of Trouble in Startup Paradise
Starting a business is a lot like starting a marriage. At first, all parties are in dreamland, with a vision of changing the world, having lots of fun, and raking…