The father of psychoanalysis had a theory about love and work—lieben und arbeiten—which offers great opportunity for leaders willing to consider it. Business leaders are constantly presented with warnings about new trends, often accompanied by prescribed actions that must be taken to avoid serious...
Establishing business relationships can be every bit as confusing and frustrating as it is essential. There are several kinds of potential stakeholders you need to account for, and each connection requires some degree of individual attention and effort. Still, some underlying principles can be...
As companies compete for talent, monthly premiums could become the next casualty of the red-hot labor market. To prevent employees from becoming another statistic in the Great Resignation, companies may want to revisit the health benefits they offer. Some small business owners are embracing a perk...
You probably wouldn’t be surprised to hear that people are more hesitant to speak up at work now than they were a few years ago. I certainly wasn’t shocked when a study our firm conducted in late 2021 of more than 1,400 people confirmed this. After all, we are living in one of the most volatile...
Which organizations do you trust? Government? The media? Business? The Covid-19 pandemic has had a keen impact on how consumers feel about institutions, and it may surprise you that business is actually the most trusted institution in the U.S. — for the fourth year in a row, according to Edelman’s...
Sales consultants can be helpful, but they can also be expensive. Are they worth it? If you're struggling to build sales momentum or if you have a challenging goal you need to achieve, you might consider hiring a sales consultant. Sales consultants have the potential to help you reassess and...
One of the vulnerabilities is called 'sniffing.' If you think your business is completely protected from inbound cyberthreats, think again. A study released Wednesday from the San Diego-based CyberCatch, a cybersecurity platform provider focusing on small and mid-size businesses, reveals that more...
“Hey, can we get meetings both shorter and more engaging?” It’s a question software CEO Jim Szafranski gets a lot from customers, which range from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Szafranski runs Prezi, whose technology allows executives to add visuals and animations to video presentations and...
What if we treated new employees like new customers? It's a provocative question worth considering. In a time when finding, hiring and retaining talented employees is harder than ever, we need to look at how little we spend to turn these employees into loyalists. It may take months or a year to...
No doubt you are working on many challenges daily, but are they the right things for your business? I hear too often from business owners and entrepreneurs that they are bombarded by so many requests and problems, that they have trouble sorting out the daily crises from opportunities with a major...
U.S. employment costs rose at a robust pace for a second straight quarter, wrapping up the strongest year of labor inflation in two decades as businesses competed for a limited supply of workers. The employment cost index, a broad gauge of wages and benefits, advanced 1% in the fourth quarter,...
New Orleans dining spot Boucherie heavily touts its new health-care plan when it recruits staff. Combined with a 30% pay hike, it’s helped the restaurant survive the Great Resignation and attract new workers. The two-site company, which includes fine dining Boucherie and the Bourrée at Boucherie...