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3 Tips From Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch on How to Drive Innovation at Any Company
Founded by , General Electric is a company that was built on innovation. The company currently works in hundreds of countries around the work with some 300,000 employees involved in everything from train car development, to jet engines.
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How CEOs Can Improve Sales Leadership
Savvy and forward-thinking CEOs recognize that good leadership is about more than just rallying the troops and getting people to show up on time. The best CEOs are able to boost sales leadership and expand revenue from quarter to quarter.
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How to Earn a Billion-Dollar Valuation For Your Startup
I'm sure all of you know one or more of the 200 or more young companies that are currently valued at $1 billion or more by investors and stockholders. These are popularly called "unicorns." Some of the most well-known include Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat, Xiaomi, and Pinterest.
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4 Steps Proven to Obliterate Vacation Shaming in Your Company
What's your philosophy about time off and vacations? Do the people who work for you know it? Increasingly, I find myself in rooms with CEOs having conversations about vacations.
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Remembering Shimon Peres: 13 Inspirational Quotes
After the loss of Arnold Palmer just over 48 hours earlier, the world lost another icon of entrepreneurship and leadership in Shimon Peres, the iconic Israeli statesman.
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
Culture by Design: The Essentials
Last week, we published the first installment of our 3-part series on company culture. In that first piece, we began to demystify a concept that I'm calling culture by design. This week we'll explore the essential that my firm provides to clients when building cultures by design with them.
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Are You Brave Enough to Start a Business in an Unpopular Industry?
Many of today's most lucrative industries are controversial, disliked by some members of society, or just plain unpopular. Take Ashley Madison, the dating site for cheating married people that's been a lightning rod for criticism and most recently a massive cyber-attack.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
NetApp’s CEO Credits His Family for His Leadership Skills
Four years after he joined NetApp, George Kurian was promoted to CEO—his first time ever holding the title. That’s not to say Kurian was unprepared to helm the $6 billion global data-storage company based in Sunnyvale, Calif.
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The One Quality That Separates Great Leaders From Good Ones
The MPW Insiders Network is an online community where the biggest names in business and beyond answer timely career and leadership questions. Today’s answer for: “What’s the key to great leadership?” is written by Andrea Thompson, partner at McChrystal Group.
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Crack the Code on Work-Life Balance
Tony Bridwell is a Partner for Partners In Leadership, a leading management consulting firm, where he works with leaders to create greater accountability across the workforce and facilitates enterprise-wide culture change. @BridwellTony
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
How the Creator of Sam Adams Used Science to Build the Perfect Beer Glass
The term, which today can describe everything from cocktails to pizza, originally was applied to beer. Craft brewing traditionally involves small, independent producers who use a mix of traditional and innovative processes and ingredients to create distinctive, high-quality quaffs.
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12 Leadership Techniques That Don't Work
There are dozens upon dozens of leadership techniques that entrepreneurs have used over the years to help motivate and inspire their team as well as steer their company to success. However, not all leadership techniques are created equal and, in fact, some procedures or processes don't work at all.
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Monday, September 26, 2016
Try These 3 Tricks When Working With Difficult People
Growing up in an Italian-American household meant you had to watch The Godfather Parts I and II every time they came on television. My father, John Gambardella, couldn't wait for Marlin Brando, a.k.a. Vito Corleone, to utter his infamous line: "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."
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7 Toxic Thoughts That Are Sabotaging Your Success
Your thoughts are powerful. It may sound farfetched to say that what you believe will come true and what you think about will come to you. But it's not really such a stretch. Your thoughts are directly connected to your actions and therefore to your outcomes.
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Sunday, September 25, 2016
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Culture By Design: A Call to Action
This is the first installment of an important 3-part series on Company Culture that I will be bringing to my Inc. readers. The series focuses on how to become more deliberate in creating a work environment that enables and empowers your organization to achieve and exceed all your expectations.
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Thursday, September 22, 2016
How to Motivate Freelancers to Perform Like Rock Star Employees
Somewhere between the start of the Great Recession of 2007 and the Age of the Unicorn, America ushered in the era of the freelance economy. Today, the workers powering our most innovative companies are increasingly likely to be independent contractors, rather than W2 employees.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
How to Turn a Loan From Your Father Into $26 Billion: an Exclusive Interview with Roger Penske
While it will be really hard to do, take a second and try to imagine that the racing organization you started fifty years ago has won over 400 races and 29 championships, including sixteen Indy 500s and two Daytona 500s -- and just two days ago won your 14th IndyCar championship during a season in w
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016
4 Signs You Might Have The Worst Boss Ever
Be careful who you forward this to. In my experience both leading teams and working on teams over the years, there are a few clear signs when you have a terrible boss. I'm not talking about the kind who embezzle money or do something illegal. Those bosses aren't terrible, they're criminals.
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If You Want to Destroy Your Career, Do This
My first boss in the tech industry was a highly respected engineering manager named Dick. A former college football lineman who looked just like Mr. Clean but without the earrings, Dick tried his best to teach me lessons that I was unfortunately too arrogant to appreciate.
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Monday, September 19, 2016
11 Leadership Lessons from Puppy Training
Earlier this year, we got a new poodle puppy. Grunt, the chocolate brown miniature, is the 5th poodle to grace my world. Some think poodles are silly, but actually as dogs go, they are among the smartest, most versatile, and most loveable canines.
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Saturday, September 17, 2016
No, Apple, Putting a Canadian Onstage Does Not Make You Diverse
About 18 months ago Apple announced to the world that it was investing $50 million in diversity efforts because, the new head of HR told Fortune, "we are dogged about the fact that we can't innovate without being diverse and inclusive.
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Failure and Possibility: What Henry Ford, Richard Branson and Elon Musk All Have in Common
I often wonder what "that thing" is that great innovators share. It's what allows them to break boundaries not just in their fields but in general about what we even conceive of as possible.
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5 Secrets of Great Leadership
Great leaders are not born into the role. They exhibit traits that have been learned, refined, honed, and improved over many years. There's no single trait that makes someone a great leader. It is a collection of refined attributes.
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Richard Branson on Leadership
In an exclusive Inc. video interview, Sir Richard discusses his management style and the part of it that people imitate the most.
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Friday, September 16, 2016
Bad Writing is Destroying Your Team's Productivity, According to Harvard Research
When we think of essential business skills, delegation, time management, and networking are probably at the top of everyone's list.
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Thursday, September 15, 2016
Receiving Leadership Lessons Via a New Antenna
Have you joined the revolution? The New York Times reports that while “cable is the dominant mode of TV delivery for all age groups…nearly a fifth of younger adults don’t subscribe and are content to connect their TV to the Internet or use antennas for broadcast.”
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
How Johnson Controls’ CEO Plans to Unite Two Giant Companies
Alex Molinaroli is facing the biggest job yet as CEO of Johnson Controls. Now that his building-products company has closed its $14 billion merger with Tyco International, he has to unite the two giant companies into one.
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Leadership Lessons From Sully
It’s been almost eight years since Captain Chesley Sullenberger miraculously landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River. It began on a chilly day in January 2009 when his plane encountered a flock of geese upon departure from New York’s LaGuardia Airport.
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