Whether you have the word entrepreneur on your business card, business leader or manager, it doesn’t really matter; one of your most important responsibilities is inspiring those around you to be the best versions of themselves they can possibly be. It’s about making them more productive, effective and efficient. It’s about boosting their morale and … Read more
Leadership is a quality that makes people feel a certain way in its presence. It’s easy to spot the makings of a great leader. It’s easy to understand when your manager is competent or isn’t. It’s not so easy to ensure you’re committing to the best leadership job you possibly could in your profession. Not everyone has … Read more
Reducing costs can help a business to be able to continue. Overheads can get so expensive that they become too much for an owner to cope with. Finding ways of cutting costs can have a huge effect, and may mean the difference between continuing to operate or having to close down. You may well think … Read more
Many people start up a business every day. In the first year, 90% of startups will fail, and this is usually because they have made some common, but silly mistakes. Entrepreneurs may try to get too big too fast and end up putting what they already had in jeopardy. If 90% of startups fail, you … Read more
Funny enough, most businesses don’t bother evolving with the times when it comes to recruitment. Instead, they use the tried and tested methods which have served them well in the past. In many ways, it’s easy to see why this is a tempting decision. They know these tactics are effective, so why change? The … Read more
We all want to believe that our business will keep going without a hitch for years. No issues, no worries and no panics that it could all come crashing down. Unfortunately, business failures are quite common. Indeed, a rather worrying report suggests that around 90 percent of new startups will fail within their first … Read more
If you’re asked to think about what kind of traits contribute greatly to making an entrepreneur as successful as they can possibly be, you’ll likely come up with a bunch of type-A, alpha characteristics, such as a tendency to be proactive, forcefulness in the workplace, being comfortable with conflict, assertiveness, self-belief, even to a fault, … Read more
Leadership sometimes thrusts itself upon people who were not expecting it. Let’s take the case of entrepreneurs, for instance. They start out with an idea and then find that they can make it a reality, and then before they know, they’re in charge of a venture that’s much bigger than themselves. When they’re in this … Read more
Once upon a time, there was a website which was rigid and inflexible. For years, its traffic grew and it became one of the biggest platforms on the World Wide Web and lived happily ever after. The end. There’s a straightforward way to tell this is a fairytale: the unyielding nature of the site. … Read more
Starting a business is no easy task, so if you’re up to the challenge and willing to take the plunge, then you’ve already taken a gigantic step towards entrepreneurship. More often than not, making that initial decision is a lot harder than most people think and you’d be surprised at how smoothly your business can … Read more
You might think that running a restaurant would be easy. After all, you just need to put in the money to finance the business, and then hire a dedicated team of chefs and waiters to take care of all the front of house, right? Well, in actual fact, it isn’t always that simple. One of … Read more
To clarify, we’re talking about surprising clients in a good way. Surprising clients by delivering a terrible service isn’t the way to become a business giant. But if you can exceed expectations with every customer your company receives, then you’ll gradually start to build a great reputation for yourself. With a bigger reputation, your business … Read more
When running a successful business, the relationships you nurture is everything. The right relationships can help to boost your skills, encourage growth and improve morale. But, are there any simple ways for you to improve your professional relationships? You may find that you are struggling from time to time to maintain that professional, yet personal, … Read more
If you already own a business, but you find yourself ‘feeling some type of way’ about it all, then it could be a sign you need a new venture. Don’t panic: this doesn’t mean you have to completely leave your current venture and move on. It just means you need to get started on something … Read more
Some folks think that to develop those in their sales team all the need do is give a motivational speech each morning, and promise a reasonable rate of commission. Of course, success in sales is much more complicated than that, and in fact, the experiences that you provide for your team can make a huge … Read more