Leadership

What can your small business learn from Harley Davidson’s recent stock plunge? Even when you’re not a big, publicly-traded company, there are four, important take-aways from Harley’s experience: 1. Sometimes Sales Matter More Than Earnings Sure, we all want to make money. But whether you’re building a small company or you’re an established icon like…

I’ve been thinking a lot about the upcoming NFL Draft and how teams try to find the players they want– evaluating talent based on 40 times, bench presses and Wonderlics. Despite these metrics and years of research, teams still routinely get it wrong. Are these really good indicators of how well a prospect will perform?…

I recently watched a profile on New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin. He has a very strong reputation for being a real hard-nosed, tough, disciplined coach. Certainly not a touchy-feely, “players’ coach” kind of guy. In this feature, his wife was telling the story of how he prepared his team before one of the…

Have you ever been told that you can’t do something? Most of us have. Simply put, failure is a fact of life, especially for entrepreneurs. It can be devastating, but you can’t let it get you down. Here are 7 famous quotes from people whose success was rooted in failure, and the stories that inspired…

I’ve had the same morning routine for decades. Sticking to a routine has always brought me clarity of thought, a positive mindset, and most of all, successful results for the rest of the day. First and Foremost, Take Care of Someone Else Every morning, as soon as I wake up, I feed my two German…

So many times, especially in business, we find things that can drag us down. We knock on doors, we keep knocking on doors, and yet they close, close, close. Am I Good Enough? We want to make more connections. We want to make more sales. We want to have more customers, and we struggle without…