The email you drafted at 11pm and shouldn't have sent
It was clear, direct, and absolutely correct. It also cost you the relationship. Being right at midnight is the most expensive form of being right.
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The reorg that was a layoff in disguise
The deck called it 'aligning to the strategy.' Nine people read the org chart, found their name missing, and updated their LinkedIn before lunch.
The founder who couldn't be on vacation
He flew to Lisbon and answered Slack from a café. The company didn't need him on vacation. It needed him to leave.
Stop Calling It Delegation
Trust is not the absence of the manager. It is a specific structure most managers skip because they mistake it for micromanagement.
How to Excel in Your Career and Entrepreneurship
Learn how to excel in your career and entrepreneurship by connecting with experts and leveraging their advice. Connect with Experts to Boost Your Business and Career Growth The Power of Networking
Taming the Tigers: Regaining Focus in a Distracted Team
Learn how to refocus your team and reclaim lost productivity. Practical Tips to Boost Team Concentration Let's face it, distractions are everywhere. From buzzing phones to overflowing inboxes, even
Success is About Habits and Mindset, Not Just Talent
How Habits and Mindset Drive Business Success The Power of Habits Understanding Habits You're staring at the week's P&L, trying to figure out where the cash went.
Embrace Success and Failure in Business
Learn how respecting success and embracing failure can transform your business and drive growth. How Respecting Triumphs and Embracing Failures Can Transform Your Business In the world of business,
Entrepreneur vs. Businessman: Ideas vs. Scaling
Learn the distinctions between entrepreneurs and businessmen, focusing on their roles in ideas and scaling. Unravel the Key Differences and Impact on Business Growth When it comes to business,
Anyone Can Make a Business, But Not Everyone Can Build a Company
Learn why building a company goes beyond making profits. Discover the importance of culture, vision, and the right team. Building a Sustainable Company Requires Vision and Commitment Starting a
Small Business Delegation: Trust to Grow
The Owner's Bottleneck: Why You Can't Grow Alone You're at your desk at 11 PM, the glow of your laptop screen the only light. Another day ends with your to-do list still stretching, half-finished.
Bill Campbell's Top Lessons for Entrepreneurs
Learn Bill Campbell’s top lessons for entrepreneurs to create a positive and productive workplace. Unlock growth and success today. Wisdom from Silicon Valley’s Legendary Coach Bill Campbell, often
Personalizing Business Interactions for Success
Discover how personal connections can enhance business relationships and lead to greater success. The Power of Personal Connection in Business In business, knowing who you're addressing can make all
Preparing Your Business to Scale: KPIs and Strategies for Success
Scaling Your Business: The Hidden Costs of Growth Metrics and Moves for Owners You've seen the numbers tick up. Sales are climbing, new clients are calling, and your team is hustling.
4 Words to Make You Persuasive
You’re trying to get a client to sign, a team to adopt a new process, or a supplier to cut a deal. What if four simple words could shift the conversation? Dr.
The Theory of Games Applied to Business: Embracing the Infinite Game
You, the owner, just hit your best quarter. Sarah, who runs a 12-person marketing agency, closed $800K in collections last month. But the stack of overdue invoices on her desk tells a different story.
The Power of Empathy in Leadership
Learn how empathy in leadership fosters a positive and productive workplace with practical tips and strategies. The Power of Empathy: Leading with Understanding and Compassion Empathy is a crucial
The Right Way to Delegate: Eliminate, Simplify, Automate, Delegate
The Four Steps to Real Delegation You hired Sarah last quarter to handle client onboarding. Yet, at 11 PM, you're still drafting the welcome email. Why? You're not alone.
How Positive Thinking Sets Top Players Apart
The Reset Button: How Top Players Handle Setbacks You've seen the difference on the court: two athletes, similar skill, one crumbles after a missed shot, the other shakes it off.
Aim for the Right Goals to Reach Business Success
Climb the Right Mountain: Achieving Business Success You're staring at the P&L, a stack of invoices on your desk. Another month, another 15% revenue bump. Good, right?
Harness the Power of Discipline to Achieve Business Goals
Learn why discipline is more reliable than motivation for achieving business success and how to cultivate it. Why Discipline Beats Motivation for Business Success Motivation is often fleeting. One
Sustainable Business Strategies for Success
Your business just closed a record month, maybe $500K in new revenue. The team is buzzing, but your bank account feels lighter, not heavier. That cash gap after a big win? It's a signal.
The Power of Positive Company Culture: Benefits and Strategies
Learn about the benefits of a healthy company culture and strategies for creating a positive and productive workplace. Company culture is an organization's personality. It includes the values,
The Future of Work: Technology's Impact on the Business Landscape
How Technology is Changing the Business Landscape The founder of a 12-person marketing agency in Medellín, let's call her Sofia, stared at her monthly payroll. It hit $50,000 this month.
The Art of Decision Making: Techniques for Making Better and
You're staring at the spreadsheet, the numbers blurring. Another 45 minutes gone. The payroll decision sits, unmade, while your team waits for direction. That paralysis?
The Art of Decision Making: Techniques for Making Better and Faster Decisions
You're staring at the spreadsheet, the numbers blurring. Another 45 minutes gone. The payroll decision sits, unmade, while your team waits for direction. That paralysis?
The Role of Digital Leadership in Today's Corporate Landscape
Your best salesperson just quit. She’s moving to a fully remote company, and you’re still trying to figure out how to run a hybrid team from your office in Medellín.
86% of People Are Stuck in Short-Term Thinking: Here's How to
The next time you chase a quick win, ask yourself: what are you actually giving up? Short-term thinking: the hidden cost to your business We want everything now.
Warning signs of a bad boss from a psychological perspective
Uncover the warning signs of a bad boss from a psychological perspective and learn how to avoid them in your workplace. A lousy boss may make work uncomfortable and have a detrimental influence on
Weighing the Benefits and Drawbacks of Being a Loyal Employee
Duke University’s researchers determined that "Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation." This study was published in a recent issue of the Journal of Experimental
The Top 3 Leadership Mistakes You Might be Making
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. John C. Maxwell 1. Failing to delegate.
How To Be Persuasive At Work
The key to being persuasive at work. What you can achieve alone does not compare to what you can achieve with the help of others. That is why, the better your ability to influence others, the more
3 Steps to Develop Loyal Employees
You've watched the good ones walk out. Maybe it was Maria, your best bookkeeper, after five years. Or the promising new hire who lasted three months, leaving…
Performance Punishment - An Easy Way to Burnout Your Employees
You might be punishing your best player's performance, and she/he might be about to walk out the door. Watch a top performer's desk. Often, it carries a heavier load than anyone else's.
Easing Your Company into the Next Stages of Growth
You've built a business from scratch. Now, the phone rings more, orders stack up, and your team scrambles to keep pace. But what happens when that growth feels less like a win and more like a trap?
Discovering the Work Habits of the Millennials (Infographic)
Your next hire might not walk into an office. They might not even live in your city. This isn't a future trend; it's the current reality shaping how SMEs operate.
How To Promote The Long-Term Success Of Your New Hires
A new hire walks in the door. What happens in their first few weeks doesn't just shape their performance; it carves out their entire future with your company.
Dealing With Difficult Situations in Your Business
Sooner or later, all businesses face problems. How to deal with them is the key to the success of our organization . Did you realize that the average Westerner spends around 90,000 hours at work
Building Loyalty From The First Interview
A successful employer-employee relationship requires mutual investment to create common value. From the first interview, both must identify if they share common goals that they can achieve together.
How to Recruit Passionate Employees
Recruit employees passionate about life. Employee work passion is a reflection of great leadership within an organization. You’ve seen the numbers.
How to Earn Your Employees' Trust
The best way to increase your team's performance is to earn your employees' trust. Winning the customer's trust, in your products and services, is as important as getting employees to trust each
Young CEO = Innovative Company
You've built your business on hard-won experience. The stack of quarterly reports on your desk tells one story: stability. But what if that very stability blinds you to the next big shift?
Why You Need a Strategic Plan?
Strategic planning concentrates the energy and resources of the organization towards common goals. What’s your business strategic plan for growth? If you’re not sure how to answer, then odds are your
Workplace Analytics is Not About Spying On Your Employees
My friend, Marco, once showed me the security camera feeds from his small manufacturing plant. He had a dozen cameras, microphones too, watching his 15-person team.
How to Make Your Employees Care About Your Company
There is no reason for your employees to care about your business if you do not care about them. Many growing businesses and established companies experience, at some point, working with employees
Intuition - The Key to Business Success in Tough Times
From 2002 to 2008, as the economy buckled, professors Barbara Bird and J. Robert Baum tracked a group of business owners. They wanted to know why some SMEs survived the recession while others folded.
Companies Need Women Leadership Style
Leadership has historically worn a masculine face. The idea that men make better leaders than women still persists. In some societies, like parts of Africa, people believe men lead and women follow.
3 Simple Strategies to Foster Innovation at Your Company
1. Provide lots of free time to think You know your team has good ideas. But when do they actually get to think them through? Accenture found employees have an entrepreneurial drive.
Are You Listening To Your Employees?
Leaders who listen are able to create trustworthy relationships, which allows them to effectively inspire the professional development and overall performance of their teams. Studies have shown that
How to Help Employees Understand the Big Picture
Employees who understand how their work contributes to the strategy and business plan of the company, develop a greater sense of ownership and performance. For an employee at a company, the most
4 Traits of a Great Workplace
One of the main business challenges today is how do you create an environment where people are intrinsically motivated to succeed. As described by Robert Levering, co-founder of Great Place to Work ,
Why Employees Quit Their Job
Knowing why employees walk out is the first step to keeping your best people. You've seen the viral videos. In late September, Marina Shifrin posted one on…
How-to Spot a Great Leader
In an increasingly competitive world, where products and services are easily imitated, we need to identify the leaders, through the organization, which can promote the growth and development of the
Stop the Blaming Game: Increase Employee Accountability
If the employees and leaders of your organization are constantly excusing themselves and pointing at others for their failures, is a red flag. You must improve your employee's accountability. When
How To Delegate Successfully?
No matter how good you are and the time you devoted to your work, if you can only accomplish a limited number of tasks alone, you have limited success. Delegation is the tool used by leaders to
Your Employees Need Feedback
Feedback, if used well and on time, is a key tool for increasing productivity and for motivating employees. "If you have ideas and information that will help someone perform better; it's hostile not
How To Make Better Decisions, Faster
Employees used to be hired to follow orders, not to take decisions. Nowadays, it is more likely that a leader is fired for avoiding making decisions than for taking risks to promote the company's
Why Introverts are Good for Business?
Introversion is generally perceived as negative. However, behind the big ideas and success of many companies you will find introverted employees and leaders. What percentage of the population are
How to Engage and Retain Top Employees
The labor market for top talent is never slow. The key talent of your business may be leaving your company tomorrow if you cannot engage them today. Nowadays, it is easy to find managers placing less
Should Companies Invest in Innovation or Leaders?
Business leaders pay far too much attention to innovation and far too little to cultivating talented entrepreneurs. Many focus on finding a great idea, creative and innovative, which assures the
Top Tips for Building a Great Team
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” Henry Ford You might gather a dozen people, assign them the same project, and put them in the same room.
Top Benefits of Playing at Work
You, the owner, watch the clock tick past 11 PM. Another 12-hour day blurs into the next, the blue light from your laptop screen a constant companion. Your team pulls long hours, too.