Leadership
How Respect Drives Engagement and Productivity
As a leader, it is imperative to have the respect of your team. When employees have respect for their boss, it creates engagement, and engagement leads to increases in productivity. So that respect has ripple effects throughout your company. But respect must be earned, and it requires doing the right thing day after day. It…
Read This ArticleBeef ‘O’Brady’s: Learning from Failure
As a business owner, you have to measure failure on a day-to-day basis. If you had a bad day the day before, you have to find the lessons you can and then come back bigger and stronger the next day. Depending on where you are in life, failure can mean different things. For many people,…
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Why You Need a Work Ethic Like Belichick and Saban
If you’re a football fan like me, than you’re living in maybe the most remarkable time in our sport’s history. With apologies to icons of past eras like Vince Lombardi, Paul Brown, and Bear Bryant, we are witnessing the greatest football coaches of all time in both the NFL and college football. Bill Belichick and…
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GSB TV: Building a Culture of Accountability
This week on the GSB TV Leadership Show, Will Adams and Matt Tarkenton talk about some of the key steps for building a culture of accountability. Based on a list of 10 steps, their advice is geared toward helping you build a team with the right people in the right place at the right time.…
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What Bouncing Back from 3 Lost Super Bowls Taught Me About Celebrating Failure
I failed. As a quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings, I failed three times — first against the Miami Dolphins, then against the Pittsburgh Steelers and finally against the Oakland Raiders. Three Super Bowls played, but not a championship ring in sight. I could’ve blamed my teammates, the coaches, bad luck or even the weather. But…
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Common Challenges for Women Entrepreneurs
Women entrepreneurs face not only the challenges common to all new business owners, but also some additional specific challenges. The ADP Blog team has identified some of those common challenges for women entrepreneurs, and, in conversation with Lisa Champagne-Minyard from Women’s Economic Ventures, also looked at ways for women to overcome these challenges. Some of…
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Do Your Job
The New England Patriots have been the most successful football team of the 21st century. This Sunday they are playing in their 7th Super Bowl in the past 16 years, all with head coach Bill Belichick and Tom Brady at quarterback. The source of the team’s incredible success can be summed up in a simple…
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GSB TV: How to Excel at Time Management
This week on the GSB TV Leadership Show, Matt Tarkenton and Will Adams tackle a topic that is near and dear to the heart of every single person in the world: time management. No matter who you are or what you do, everyone is working with the same 24 hours in the day to get…
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The Circle of Technology
Both innovation and failure are indispensable to what we can call “the Circle of Technology,” which continually destroys, creates, destroys, and creates opportunity, markets, and livelihoods. The Circle of Technology is hardly a new concept. What I call the Age of Innovation and Failure began in the nineteenth century and exploded big time in the…
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Best of Mentoring: Mark Murphy on Early Detection
In his mentoring series, Mark Murphy shares the secrets to effective leadership, with an emphasis on small and medium sized businesses. He talks about building a team of people who are both productive and healthy for the company culture, getting beyond seeing leadership as just motivational speaking, and more. In this session, he and Fran…
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