Barb Cutillo: Upskill your approach to managing projects
Most managers lack formal project management training, and very often, the projects they run fail miserably or spin indefinitely, wasting time and resources.
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Kim and Todd Saxton: The art of the exit: Our goodbye as next chapter calls
Roughly 27 years ago, about this time of year, we arrived in Indianapolis with our elementary-school-age daughters.
Angie Stocklin: Exits come with mixed emotions. Let’s recognize that.
I was extremely proud of my team and what we had accomplished to bring us to the point of acquisition, but I was also distraught and devastated.
Garrett Mintz: Survivor’s guilt: 3 ways to build morale after layoffs
Layoffs are part of a business’s natural ebb and flow.
Kristen Cooper: Deep buyer insights help attract, maintain customers
“Buyer insights” are the keys to sustaining and expanding the customer base.
Ilya Rekhter: Founders, embrace the sink-or-swim moment
My initial thought was that we’d be better off selling funny-sounding presidential cereal.
Culture is a catalyst for the hybrid squeeze
Workers come to the office for the alchemy of creative collaboration, not the snacks.
Tiffany Sauder: Dare to stand apart: Transforming your brand strategy
Standing apart in a crowded marketplace requires a bold departure from the status quo.
Jess Carter: Data-driven leadership starts with a fearless vision
I live in the weird and exciting gray area between the leaders who want answers and the people doing algorithm development and data cleansing—the stuff that makes your eyes glaze over.
Kim Saxton and Todd Saxton: Entrepreneurs don’t need to go it alone.
Forbes has ranked Indiana in the top two states for starting a business for the last few years. We have so many great resources to help people getting started.
Samantha Julka: Why leaders need to think outside Pandora’s Box
Leaders fear asking their workforce questions, worried that the answers will lead to requests they can’t (or don’t want to) fulfill.
Garrett Mintz: How AI can help managers set better objectives, goals
In most work environments, firefighting is inevitable, but it shouldn’t be your team’s primary focus.
Barb Cutillo: Lessons from the NBA’s playbook on team management
To continue to move our organizations forward, we need managers and leaders who know how to build, direct and engage high-performing teams, and the NBA All-Stars provide some inspiration.
Angie Stocklin: We sold our company and didn’t ask enough questions
We naively assumed we would at least be looped into conversations that were happening about our team and our brands.
Kristen Cooper: How to be a great advisory board member to a startup
Gray hair and wrinkles are not only desirable, they are an advantage.
Jeffrey McDermott: 10 leadership tips to get the best out of your people
Some leadership strategies, however, work more universally than others in maintaining a positive culture and getting the best out of your people.
Entrepreneurship: Tools to help you juggle work and parenting
Despite achieving my dreams of marriage, kids, a successful career and a home I loved, the constant challenges left me questioning why it all felt so difficult.
Mandy Haskett: Hermit crabs shell out relationship advice for leaders
Not hermits at all, these creatures rely entirely on their social networks to survive, building systems that ensure everyone in the group benefits from new resources at the same time.
Kim and Todd Saxton: Make sure our scale-ups have support they need
While providing resources and reducing barriers to new startups is important, we should not ignore the needs of scale-up companies.
Mark Caswell: Grit is earned in the hard times, not given
Grit is that ability to persevere through difficult situations.