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How to make a difference: 5 powerful action steps
When you ask most people if they want to make a difference in the world, the answer is almost always, “yes.” How to do that, however, isn’t quite as obvious—and many people can become discouraged if they feel like they haven’t fulfilled their purpose or made an impact. The world is a big place and it can be hard to know where to start.
Kat Boogaard
5 things you need before approaching a venture capitalist
If you’re running a startup (or thinking about creating one!) you’ll likely have spent countless hours and sleepless nights researching one of the most critical elements of bringing your idea to life: funding. And that means you’ll have run into the big guns of company funding, the venture capitalists.
Catie McHugh
11 traits of transformational leaders and how to develop them
When it comes to bosses, there are those who fuel our creative fire, pushing us to reach for the stars and then there are those who are just fine with business as usual.1 The former uses transformational leadership to ignite the passion in each individual and boost team performance.
Anam Hassan
Creating a culture of excellence: the Goldilocks approach
At Fingerprint for Success, our core belief around leadership and culture-building rests on the importance of empathy and being understanding of each other’s unique circumstances, while coaching for performance and wellbeing.
Ted Bauer
Can someone please explain this startup fundraising stuff to me?
They say money can’t buy you happiness. But it’s pretty crucial when launching a successful startup.
Jo Foster
How less consumption and more gratitude can make you a better entrepreneur
Thanksgiving brings a whole lot of festive familiarity: lots of turkey and all the trimmings, family engagements to rush around dutifully to, and eye-popping sales that seem to bring out the best in deals and worst in humanity.
Catie McHugh
How to answer 'what am I good at?' according to an Ivy League Career Coach
As a career coach for the past 20 years, 'what am I good at?' is one of the most common questions I hear from executive clients, entrepreneurs and students. While the context may differ, the sentiment remains the same. Making a career transition is scary, whether you are just starting out in your professional life or putting everything on the line to launch a new venture.
Tiffany Franklin
Lionel Richie: Leading LA’s startup investing surge
Grammy-getting, Oscar-obtaining, Golden Globe-grabbing legendary singer-songwriter Lionel Richie, is adding another feather to his cap as one of LA’s most prominent celebrity startup investors.Upon backing doctor-on-demand service, Heal, Richie got bitten hard by the modern tech bug. And he’s not stopping there.
Catie McHugh
Micromanagement destroys teams — here's how to nip it in the bud
Feeling burnt out at work? If you're in a senior position, it might be because you have micromanagement tendencies and haven't made the transition to a true leader yet.
Michaud Garneau
4 amazing employee wellness programs to inspire yours
Founder of the Virgin Group, Richard Branson once said, “If you take care of your employees, they will take care of your business.”1
Jessica Orika
How digital destruction will actually save your business
If you look at the Fortune 500 list from the year 2000 right now, you’d probably only recognize about half the listed companies.
Jo Foster
How to deal with burnout at work
Research shows that burnout at work is on the rise, with 42% of people saying they feel occupational burnout. This particularly affects women and workers under 30.1
Amy Rigby
Is time tracking the ultimate productivity hack for busy entrepreneurs?
You’re an entrepreneur on the rise, dedicating every skerrick of resources to realizing your business dreams. However, there’s one thing no venture capitalist or Kickstarter backer can raise for you: time.
Catie McHugh
Team management: The ultimate guide to managing calmly for happy, productive teams
Calm team management should be an all-the-time thing, not just during a crisis.On November 8, 2018, project management software Basecamp went down for almost five hours—the company’s largest outage in a decade. But instead of losing their heads, co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson saw it as a “stress test” of the very thing they promote in their book, It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, and had been practicing all along: calm work.
Amy Rigby