Tony Hsieh's Delivering Happiness* is a good reminder that sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and follow your passion. Part autobiography, part tale of success-wrought-from-hard-work, part customer service bible, Delivering Happiness is a good read for...
Each week I’m highlighting 3 or 4 posts, surveys, and other news that I have read and/or tweeted about that you may not have seen. As the name implies, I think they deserve a second look. How Ford Got Its Mojo Back: A must-read post about smart business strategy...
A new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) report surveys the entrepreneurial lifecycle in the United States. Drawing on 2008 data, What Entrepreneurs Are Up To looks at who starts a business and why, how start-ups begin, and the impact of public policy. There is...
I intended for my first blog post of the work year to focus on my overall approach to 2010, but instead I find myself looking backwards. Not to 2009 per se, but to the actions I took during my two weeks of downtime that have given me a running start into the new year....
My first podcast is out! I was interviewed by IABC's Natasha Nicholson for CW Radio, and the topic is lessons learned in 20 years of business. The premise: the fundamentals of running a business haven't changed in the last 20 years, but pretty much everything else...
As if I didn't have enough to read already, I've added a few new blogs into my Google Reader recently. Mostly focused on business and technology, but also one great new find on entrepreneurship. If you haven't bookmarked (or subscribed to) the Policy Dialogue on...
We all know the U.S. economy is entering a jobless recovery, which is really a sanitized way of saying that if you're unemployed you can expect more of the same. We clearly need a jobs creation strategy, and fast. So where will the jobs come from? If history is a...
Insomnia can make you a little crazy. If you're prone to it, then you know that there's nothing quite like flipping channels at 2:45 a.m. and discovering that your best options may be a slasher movie or the 20th iteration of LockUp Raw. So I thought I'd found...
Do you have what it takes to be a leader? And is this even the right question to ask? John Ryan, president of the Center for Creative Leadership and a former superintentent of the U.S. Naval Academy, has a great column in Business Week that posits that leadership has...
Have you ever beaten out a bigger competitor to win business? How did you succeed? Succeeding in business is all about understanding your competitive advantages and playing to them. For entrepreneurs and many small business owners, that can also mean leveraging...