Top CEO’s on How to Conduct Meetings
Top CEO’s on How to Conduct Meetings Drake Baer, Business Insider writer and entrepreneurship expert, shares some fantastic principles from a few of today’s top execs on how to conduct meetings. Here are a few excerpts from his article (full version here): Opsware CEO and Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz likes to have one-to-one meetings. Horowitz, who spends much of his time mentoring young leaders, says that most important job for a CEO is to architect the way people communicate in a company. The one-to-one meeting is essential to that process, he says, as...
Read MoreBaby Steps: Personal Finance
Baby Steps: Personal Finance Money. One word with lot’s of emotions behind it. Today, we’d like to change gears a bit and talk about personal finance. Here are what Dave Ramsey calls the 7 baby steps to financial peace: 1: Get an emergency fund Save up $1,000 for when those emergencies happen. It’s not a matter of if they will happen… it’s a matter of when. If your income is $20,000 or below then you can start out with an emergency fund of $500. 2: Get out of debt This is probably one of the hardest things for people because we think it’s...
Read MoreThe “How To” of Goal Setting: Objectives and Key Results
Image courtesy of myrestoredhealth.com Every small business owner knows that goal setting is a key to success. We all know why we need to set goals but the how is where we get hung up. And that’s where Google comes in. Their system of Objectives and Key Results (OKR’s) provides an excellent framework for goal setting and measuring. Here’s a brief intro to the method. In the first year of Google’s operations, John Doerr, big-time venture capitalist and entrepreneur, presented the idea of OKR’s to the founders. He committed them to a test run and now it’s become part of the...
Read MoreThe Measuring Stick: Determining the Strength of Your Workplace
Image source: tothministries.org via Google search Revenue, profit, sales volume – that’s easy enough for us to measure. But what about employee morale? Company culture? A manager’s effectiveness? Overall strength of a workplace? Now that’s tough. But, the Gallup Organization believes it’s possible, and so do I. Over the course of 25 years Gallup studied these and other questions by interviewing over a million employees and gathering their answers to hundreds of similar questions. In the end, Gallup ran an in depth and extremely complex statistical analysis that...
Read MoreWorking with Gen Y, the Millennials
Tips for Working with Gen Y, the Millennials With each new graduating class, more and more millennials are entering the workforce. Although Gen Y, a.k.a. “millennials,” born between the early 1980s and 2000, are often viewed as lazy or entitled this new generation can be a great asset to your business. Read on to learn how to make working with Gen Y employees a strength for your business. Gen Y Strengths – Tech savvy, especially with social media- Strong multi-taskers – Hold high expectations of themselves and employers- Prefer to collaborate and work in teams- Seek...
Read MoreBiggest Challenges for Small Businesses
Challenges Ahead for Small Businesses With the new year upon us, it time to get going and look forward to what is in store. Here are some of the biggest challenges small business owners will face in 2014. Read on to wise-up and make plans to overcome these potential stumbling blocks. Photo Credit 1. Funding While there are signs that the tight credit markets for small companies are loosening up, the loosening is happening slowly. In November 2013 big banks approved 17.4% of small-business loans which is up from 13.2% in 2012, small banks approved 49.7% 2013 versus 49.2% in 2012 according to...
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