Consciously practice thinking more about the positive consequences of your being rejected. What opportunities can you now see that have been hiding behind the clouds of the status quo?
Rejection can, in fact, be a glorious unveiling of new possibilities.
6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Any experienced entrepreneur or manager will tell you that as a business grows, one of the biggest challenges is leadership. That challenge begins the moment you hire your first team member, and the challenge only grows with each addition.
The actual term for a leader who upends the power pyramid to put others' needs first was introduced by Robert Greenleaf in his influential 1970 essay "The Servant As Leader" in 1970.
Empathy. Give trusted co-workers the benefit of the doubt by assuming the good in them. It goes a long way toward instilling loyalty and trust in you from your team.
Awareness. Care deeply about the welfare of the team members. Don't view them only as cogs in a machine.
Building community. Build community where both employees and customers can thrive.
Persuasion. Rely on persuasion rather than coercion to create internal motivation required to complete the task effectively.
Conceptualization. Servant-leading entrepreneurs focus on the big picture and don't get overly distracted by daily operations and short-term goals.
Growth. Care passionately about the personal and professional growth of each member of the team.
7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. During the last recession, companies that were best at engaging their employees, in part by providing the training they needed to move forward in their careers, enjoyed profit gains of 26 percent, compared to losses of 14 percent at companies that were worst at engagement.
During the last recession, companies that invested in their employees, in part by providing the training they needed to move forward in their careers, enjoyed profit gains of 26 percent, compared t...
Ask about passion projects. Learners tend to pursue something else outside work (training for a marathon, playing with a band, etc.)
Focus on curiosity as much as hard skills. Bring up problems currently facing the team and see how the candidate responds.
One of the most important things to a learning mindset is the ability to admit you don't know something. So be aware of how they approach the things they don't understand.
This means explicitly defining ongoing learning as a core company value.
Empowering employees can mean providing the time or money to enable learning - in other words, offering learning opportunities as a job benefit like health insurance.
7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You worked your tail off to start your own business. You don't want growth to plateau after you've tasted a little bit of success. To make matters worse, there's an increasing amount of uncertainty looming on the horizon, thanks to external factors like political upheaval and industry shake-ups.