Opportunities stem from the diversity, strengths, and shortcomings found within teams. The African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child,” can be tweaked slightly to apply to business, as “It takes a team to achieve success.” The key to creating a more positive and influential work …
Strategizing Articles and Interviews (category)
The most successful business owners are always thinking ahead. If you are a new business owner, strategizing about mission statements, corporate culture and business plans are things you would be smart to address early on. More seasoned business owners can benefit from articles on everything from setting client expectations to creating a niche for your small business
How to Support Someone—Even if You Don’t Like Their Ideas
We’ve all been there before: you’re in a meeting when someone throws out a proposal or says something that you think is dumb. Cue the eye rolling. Get back to the phone and the laptop. Tune out. Communication is the public theater of improvisation. In the face of an uncertain and unscripted …
How Has Big Data Transformed Business Operations?
Data is the information provided by tools used to measure, record, and extract information from phenomena. These tools are known as Big Data. They are designed to answer questions based on their experience with prior data sets instead of being instructed to look for specific patterns in new data. …
5 Benefits of Hiring a Lawyer for Your Small Business
At some point, most small businesses will need to hire a lawyer for one reason or another. Whether it is because you are starting a new business and want to make sure that you have all of the paperwork in order, or because your current company has outgrown its current location and you need help with …
Here’s a Blueprint for Your Business Success
Many people graduate from high school or even college without really knowing what they want to do with their lives. After graduation or perhaps following a few years out in the working world, you might decide that you'd like to work in business. Maybe you have something specific in mind, like …
The Proper Way to Conduct a Trademark Search
Many entrepreneurs, especially smaller ones, are violators of trademark infringement. Instead of investing the money in having a proper trademark search done, they rely on their intuition to just assume it will be okay to call their yoga pants "Nikke," assuming that if they just add an extra letter, …
