Every Day Drills to Maintain Physical and Mental Wellness During Times of Stress
Market ups and downs, emotional ups and downs, working from home, and a recession has caused many companies and individuals to have feelings of uncertainty, fear, and doubt. This is a natural reaction. But how do we overcome these feelings and move forward?
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4 Things to Check to See If Your Business Is Ready to Reopen
Every business has been uniquely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Likewise, the process of deciding and preparing to resume normal--or "new-normal"--operations will be just as different on a case-by-case basis.
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Daymond John’s ’20 Percent’ Rule for Starting a Business
Why FUBU founder Daymond John thinks you shouldn't quit your day job to start a new venture.
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New Study: Female Employees Receive Less Useful Feedback
Most of the time it's great to hear positive feedback at work. But there's one obvious exception: when the praise is a white lie. While being told your work needs improvement isn't fun, at least if you know where you're falling short you can strive to improve. If no one tells you you're underperforming, you'll continue on blissfully ignorant right up to the day you get fired.
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Amazon Sues an Ex-Employee Over a Non-Compete Clause. He Says His Boss Called It ‘Unenforceable’
Amazon has filed suit against Brian Hall, a newly hired Google VP and former VP of product marketing at Amazon Web Services (AWS). It's a lawsuit business leaders should watch closely.
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5 Steps to Protect Your Career As We Turn Toward Recovery
Due to the devastating impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the restaurant industry, one of my coaching clients, Alex, an entrepreneurial executive who served as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) in a regional chain of 24 diners in the Northeast, wanted to explore switching to a different industry.
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Reopening? Learn How to Help Your Employees Feel Safe Psychologically
As the doors to stores, offices, and manufacturing plants open again, leaders are grappling with new local and federal safety procedures to prevent the spread of Covid-19. But whatever number of facemasks or bottles of hand sanitizer are on hand, business owners still need to make sure employees feel safe, both in the workplace and around customers.
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If Your Employees Are Always Busy, You Have a Problem
Few things warm an entrepreneur's heart more than walking around your business and seeing your whole team busily working away. You're paying your employees to get stuff done, after all. But according to experts, if your people always look busy, you might have a problem.
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Why Empathy Is One of the Most Overlooked Skills in Business
It was a sunny day in April. The air was crisp and the walk ahead of us enjoyable.
I stared at the beautiful Embarcadero situated near our San Francisco office, feeling grateful for working close to such a stunning view.
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Why COVID-19 Is Inspiring Empathetic and Quiet Leadership
A return to normalcy.
Here we are, 100 years later, and Warren G. Harding’s 1920 election slogan seems more appropriate than ever. For the business world, "normal" isn’t in the vocabulary and may never be again.
For leaders of companies big and small, the test to remain steady and inspire hope is a daunting one. But quietly it can be done.
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