Leadership
GSB TV: Think Like an Insurgent!
For any business, complacency can be deadly. Whether large or small, standing still is an invitation for competitors to pass you by. In this episode of GSB TV, Will Adams and Matt Tarkenton offer advice for businesses to help them avoid complacency, think like an insurgent, and as Jeff Bezos of Amazon says, make every…
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Draft Day for Your Business
This week is the NFL Draft, probably the biggest highlight of the NFL offseason. Every team is looking for the young players who will help them win, and we’ll all hear a lot about how these are future stars. Every team goes in looking for different things. They have different needs. They have different criteria…
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GSB TV: Do Less, Better
We all struggle with productivity, and how to get more done. On this week’s session of the GSB TV Leadership Show, Matt Tarkenton and Will Adams talk about productivity hacks based on the concept of Essentialism. The whole idea is to do less, better. Contemporary society rewards multitasking, but the most successful people understand the…
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The Secret To Overcoming Fear Of Failure
Pride is a funny thing. On the one hand, we look at it as a vice, something to rein in, to take control of. If you look up synonyms for pride, the first words that appear are all negative: conceit, egotism, vanity. “Pride goeth before the fall,” says the Bible. It’s a universal sin in…
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Laughing Skull Lounge: Managing People
Marshall Chiles, founder and owner of the Laughing Skull Lounge in Atlanta, says that there are three types of people he works with, and adjusts his employer-employee approach for each. The first group is people who work directly for him at the lounge, running things day-to-day. With this group, he is very hands-off: they know…
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Refuse to Accept Defeat!
When I was preparing to enter the NFL in 1961, I was 6’0”, 185 pounds, and a third-round draft choice. The reason I was taken in the third round was because they didn’t think I was good enough to play. If you play quarterback at a big school like the University of Georgia and you’re…
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Make Time for Strategic Planning
Running your business is an exhausting, all-day-every-day enterprise. You have so many things to do—from the central task of finding more customers to the ins and outs of day-to-day operations. And it’s especially true for a small business, where you don’t have a huge staff of people to spread the tasks around. With so much…
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What I Learned About Business from the Cofounder of Waffle House
Earlier this month, we lost one of the great entrepreneurs. Joe Rogers Sr. was the cofounder of the Waffle House chain of diners, building the company from the ground up, from the first store in Avondale Estates outside Atlanta in 1955. Today, there are more than 1,900 Waffle House locations, and their yellow signs are…
Read This ArticleBeef ‘O’ Brady’s: Entrepreneurial Advice
Reed Parker is the owner of a Beef ‘O’ Brady’s franchise in Dallas, Georgia, and shares his advice for entrepreneurs. He focuses on maintaining a positive outlook: if you’re down on your luck, the best way to move forward is to handle it positively. Set goals, and find what you’re passionate about. If you’re doing…
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Surround Yourself with a Winning Team
Sports gives us such a great window into the rest of our lives. Over four quarters, nine innings, two halves, or whatever frame it uses, a game is a miniature lesson. The coaches and players prepare, come up with a plan. They put it into action. And within a few hours, there’s a winner and…
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