When given a task, it may be your instinct to hop in feet first. When starting a company, you may just want to put your head down and get to work. But before step one, there's a step zero - the best of us listen first before creating anything.
The Core Skills Needed to Manage Your Team So you've just got a new job as a manager. Congratulations! Or maybe you've just been given the task of pulling a new team together. What a challenge! Either way, whether your team exists already or it's your responsibility to create it, what do you do next?
Building a successful business requires an understanding of why people buy Most people fall into the same trap: they try to make something their customers want. They think that down the line, there's one golden answer to what it is their customers want. The harsh truth is that your customers will keep on surprising you.
We're all living through an unprecedented moment in modern history, the potential scale of which hasn't been seen in over one hundred years since the 1918 Flu Pandemic. As I sit here at my desk writing this at 8:30pm on a Wednesday night in the midst of the whirlwind of news and uncertainty, I, probably not unlike you, am doing my very best to answer some very important questions.