5 Signs Your Company Culture May Actually Suck. Great company culture is visceral.
We’re talking about the type of culture that is so real, it envelops you from the minute you step into the office. It’s refreshing, like splashing cool water on your face in blistering hot weather. It radiates from every person in the business. Having a strong company culture is the secret ingredient to modern success.
Planting the seeds for a great online community. The web site's done.
The launch date is set. Now - before you open the site's doors to the world - you have the chance to take a few key steps that will play a bigger role in shaping the community you’re creating than any other measure you’re likely to take. What are the roles and responsibilities of an effective community manager? Start by thinking of yourself as the host of a really good party - one where you're welcoming the guests and keeping them happy, and moving the evening along from event to event, while giving the conversation plenty of room to breathe.
3 Reasons Why B2B Startups Should Charge Their Users Money Early. A lot of startups are hesitant to make their users pay early.
After all, it’s the internet, right?
15 Entrepreneurs On What They Learned From Failure. 10 Things Only Exceptional Bosses Give Employees. Getting The Website Information Architecture Right: How to Structure Your Site for Optimal User Experiences. 117inShareinShare What kind of content should you have on your site?
How should you structure the menu? What should be the first-level menu items? Information Architecture. Simple Yet Powerful Business Lessons From a Broke Entrepreneur Turned Multi-Millionaire. A boy grows up poor in Poland, drops out of high school and moves to the U.S. at age 17 without speaking one word of English, becomes a millionaire, loses it all and rebuilds over and over again, each time with more success.
That may sound like a movie script, but it’s part of the fascinating real-life story of serial entrepreneur Tomas Gorny, co-founder and chief executive of cloud-based communications provider Nextiva -- as well as iBoost (funded by SoftBank) and IPOWER, now part of Endurance International Group where he remains a director. I had the pleasure of speaking with Gorny recently and he shared some of his secrets of entrepreneurial success: Related: Hungry for Success?
3 Business Lessons From the Food Network. Creation is greater than accumulation: Gorny’s biggest lesson came from learning to focus on creation, letting his drive and passion guide his decisions instead of money. Related: All Successful Entrepreneurs Do These 3 Things (Video) 3 Ways Your Ego Can Wreck Your Business — d.science inc. 5 Factors That Make a Great Boss. The best bosses are the ones who can turn a good organization into a great company.
They are the individuals who consistently push their employees to become better, more engaged and enable them to adapt to oncoming changes in the corporate landscape. Instead of suppressing employees, top-tier bosses encourage smart ideas, open conversation and creativity. They reward the employees who deserve recognition instead of promoting those who simply agree with them. Regardless of industry or size of company, studies have showed that the best bosses share common traits that lead to consistent success. 5 Signs You're Not Leadership Material. Success is a matter of signaling.
To Sylvia Ann Hewlett, that signaling is a matter of "Executive Presence," which is the title of her new book. Hewlett says executive presence is a matter of "communicating that you have what it takes. " It's that it quality that draws people — and job offers, promotions, and opportunities — toward you. But getting it wrong can repel people.
In an earlier post we looked at those positive signals, which were identified by Hewlett and her team at the Center for Talent Innovation in their survey of 4,000 professionals in the U.S. 12 Personality Traits That Make You a Rock-Star Boss (Infographic) Relationships can go two ways.
And if a relationship isn’t working, it’s so tempting -- and so easy -- to look across the table to find the problem. But the problem may be you. As a business owner, if your staff is lackadaisical and underperforming, it’s time to evaluate whether you can be doing a better job as a manager. After all, a team is only as efficient, productive and happy as its leader. 5 Fast-Growing Industries Ripe for Entrepreneurs. When you’re thinking about starting a business, think first which industries have sustainable momentum.
How Arts and Cultural Strategies Create, Reinforce, and Enhance Sense of Place. Keypoints #1: Understanding Community Context #2: Reinforcing Sense of Place: Celebrating Community Character #3: Local Implementation Framework #4: Arts and Cultural Programming This brief explores how arts and culture strategies can be used to understand community context, celebrate community character, and ultimately create, reinforce, or enhance sense of place. Main Section. What is a community leader? Ways to make a Community Stronger, Wiser, More Resilient and Engaged. The Co-Intelligence Institute CII home // Y2K home // CIPolitics home Ways to make a Community Stronger, Wiser, More Resilient and Engaged by Tom Atlee Our American culture is very good at keeping us apart -- involved in our own lives, houses, subcultures -- hooked up to mass media and mass economics -- with precious little time or inclination to reach out -- to work, talk and play with people unlike ourselves, or to really engage with the place where we live.
This is great for profits and bad for communities, humanity, nature and democracy.