Entrepreneurship

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Harvard Business Review

Are you working longer hours, attending more meetings, taking shorter vacations, answering more emails and eating lunch at your desk, if you eat lunch at all? Does demand in your life just keep getting higher, so you're struggling more and more just to keep up?
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John Greathouse

 According to a January 2012 Forbes article, nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. When one considers the 400 richest people on the entire planet, the percentage of non-college graduates doubles.
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Dr. John Sullivan

Recruiting is important at any firm, but it is super critical at startup firms. This is because when you have thousands of employees, you can still get by after hiring a few turkeys. At a startup, however, you are so lean that every hire must count and a single bad hire can cause incredible damag
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Harvard Business Review

Managers have little choice about facing challenges, whether they come from competitors, economic conditions, or customer demands.
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John Greathouse

This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE. Philo Farnsworth created a technology which underlies one of the 20th Century’s most ubiquitous products, yet he died
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Gururaja Yellapur

It is common practice that managers of successful line units keep getting promoted and head functional units and some of them eventually get promoted to run an entire business. However, the skills, outlook need to run a specialized functional units are more focused to usually one discipline and re
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Dave Crenshaw

Entrepreneurs, especially new ones, often think that getting a partner who shares their vision and energy is the fastest way to grow a business. Unfortunately, they’re most often wrong. It’s not because business partnerships can’t succeed. They can. However, partnerships that fa
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Gururaja Yellapur

It is very important for entrepreneurs to stay abreast of emerging trends, new technologies and tools, as it can be the differentiator in gaining competitive advantage over others in the space. Also, we can assess whether the current product/solution we are pursuing is part of a pie that is increa
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Harvey Mackay

With each passing birthday, some wise guy asks me if I'm finally going to retire. Oh, how I hate that question. I love my work, and I love to work. And as it turns out, I'm part of an emerging demographic: the longevity revolution. It's also an underrated generation. To confirm my s
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Fast Company

Several years ago I was in the Thomson Building in Toronto. I went down the hall to the small kitchen to get myself a cup of coffee. Ken Thomson was there, making himself some instant soup. At the time, he was the ninth-richest man in the world, worth approximately $19.6 billion. Enough,
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