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4 Principles to Develop Next-Level Leadership at Your Company
Filling management holes that get created when the company gets bigger is important. Use these four principles to develop the leaders in your organization. For a company to be successful, it must find a way to develop talent. It isn't always possible to hire leadership from the outside. Being able...
Can We Fix What’s Wrong With Continuous Performance Management?
Are you a devoted practitioner of outcomes and key results (OKRs) and continuous performance management? Even if you’ve barely heard the terms, I have two objectives for this article: Introduce three fatal flaws plaguing continuous performance management to apply OKRs. Tickle your imagination with...
4 Ways to Protect Your Business from Cyberattacks
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses have quickly adopted remote working and transitioned to new technologies, such as contactless payments and online ordering. Unfortunately, these adjustments have come with increased risks. According to a 2022 report from Barracuda, a cloud...
How Leaders Can Control Their Frustrations with Team Members
No leader can avoid or hide from adversity and frustration. Intelligent leaders are self-aware and emotionally intelligent enough to realize they can deal with frustration by exercising emotional control. Preparing for rough situations ahead of time allows leaders to respond to frustration rather...
This 35-Year-Old Turned Her eBay Side Hustle Into a $141 Million Company: ‘Here’s the Business Plan I Used’
In 2014, I walked away from my $35,000-per-year job in insurance sales to grow my e-commerce side hustle with my husband Chris. We had been experimenting with selling clothes and accessories on online marketplaces, including eBay and Facebook. Our online community of friends and customers quickly...
Hiring Mistakes You Could Be Making
Bad hires happen. However, they happen a bit too often. Studies show that nearly three out of four employers admit to hiring the wrong job candidate. Maybe HR was in a rush to fill an important role or you hired someone because you knew the applicant and they seem nice enough. Or, someone didn’t...
Why the CFPB’s Expansion of its UDAAP Authority to Target Discrimination Requires Rulemaking
In a new blog post published on the Consumer Law & Policy Blog, Professor Jeff Sovern advocates very strongly in support of interpreting the “unfairness” prong of UDAAP to encompass discrimination in connection with credit and non-credit consumer financial products and services offered by...
Why We Micromanage (Even if We Don’t Want to)
Micromanagement. We have all experienced it – and if you are a leader, you have mostly likely done it. Yet no one ever says that great leaders are micromanagers. If it isn’t effective and we don’t like it done to us, why do we micromanage? The Pressures to Micromanage Not all the items on this...
Three Steps to Make Your Business Harder to Hack
The U.S. Small Business Administration recently launched a new pilot program to help small businesses improve their cybersecurity infrastructure. As business owners everywhere face increasing cyber risks and challenges that could cripple their operations, the SBA has committed to awarding millions...