Let’s say you had the chance to take advice from a guy who had a 12-employee, $95,000 company and grew it into a 6,000-employee, $1.5 billion company? You probably would listen, no? That guy is Mark Leslie, and he recently… Continue Reading
From The New Yorker’s really long, in-depth profile of billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn would also purvey business advice. Three years ago, it assembled a group of eight hundred “influencers”—Hoffman, Bill Gates, Deepak Chopra, Arianna Huffington—who began regularly posting on the… Continue Reading
I’ve been working 13 years. I’m about to turn 35 years old. (Less than one month, yay.) The first two years I was working, I taught inner-city elementary school in Houston as part of Teach for America. Then, I worked for… Continue Reading
One of the three things you can’t really discuss — along with failure and sex — is money/salary. As essentially a direct result of this, no one really understands what their salary represents — and that leads to a lot… Continue Reading
Let me try to walk through this logically. I may step on some land mines, and if/when I do, I apologize. If you have a business and that business makes any type of money or gets any type of funding,… Continue Reading
This whole topic is one that I wish more people would discuss more openly more of the time, because if you really get right down to it, the ability to change is pretty much everything in your life. Think about… Continue Reading
That seems counterintuitive, right? You want to be chasing strong ties and strong relationships, no? No. Here’s why, as explained somewhat by Stanford University research (and FSU research): Recognize that weak ties are more valuable for job performance and careers than stronger relationships. That’s… Continue Reading
I talked to my friend about this the other night and thought it was interesting, so I decided to turn it into a quick blog. I wouldn’t say that “smart” and “fast” are necessarily the only two ways that an organization can… Continue Reading