The founders of lean startups don’t begin with a business plan; they begin with the search for a business model. Only after quick rounds...

What will be your most promising growth opportunities? Form a small team, give them ninety days, and ask them to do the following: Blitz...

In human cognition, decision making occurs in two main ways: a fast, involuntary, unconscious manner call System 1 by Daniel Kahneman,...

What are the personal traits and backgrounds of people who become successful entrepreneurs? No matter what your background is, an...

This post from Tom Albrighton draws on academic research into political storytelling, and other sources, to argue that the most effective...

Key performance indicators (KPIs), also known as key success indicators (KSIs), are the suite of highest-level measures linked to an...

What will be your most promising growth opportunities? Form a small team, give them ninety days, and ask them to do the following: Blitz...

Richard Legion of the Association of Governing Board of Universities and Colleges (AGB) detailed the following ten habits of highly...

When interviewed, entrepreneurial managers will ask bold questions, take the initiative in the conversation, exhibit little anxiety about...

These lessons have become dogma in the startup world. Make incremental advances. Grand visions inflated the dot-com bubble, so they...

Be curious. Curiosity makes everything new. It invites exploration. It makes everything play. Most of all, curiosity is going to help you...

Be happy with you’ve got. Don’t always be looking for something better. Don’t buy anything you don’t need. Don’t buy what you ought to...

Successful people do the following 16 things on Monday mornings. They wake up early. Successful people go to sleep at a decent hour on...

Define your organization’s purpose and stick to it. Describe the mission of your organization in a way that would make your children...

An inspiring, strategically sound vision leads the way to greatness (especially if you write it down!). You need to give customers really...

Is our current success making us self-satisfied and complacent? Are we inwardly focused? Do we punish risk takers who fail? Are creative...

To succeed as a leader, you need to unify: Your purpose. The driving ambition that shapes what you and your organization aspire to...

There's a myth that planning is a concept that everyone needs, but no one uses because the world moves too fast for us to commit to a...

A trick to great planning is to involve a wide swath of stakeholders with diverse perspectives while simultaneously being decisive about...

Planning is commonly thought of as a process of inclusive decision-making about what the organization needs to do next. This is, of...