Angie Stocklin: Here’s what it looked like when we sold One Click
A common phrase floating around the startup world is that companies are bought, not sold.
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Samantha Julka: Thanks, I hate it: The gift of an open mindset
In our work at DORIS, we pause in the middle of our process and present leaders with the challenges their employees experience in the workplace.
Got a business idea? Do not go it alone! Help is an easy reach away.
Reflecting on my journey from inspiration to product launch, I am deeply grateful for our innovation community and think others need to know more about it.
Barb Cutillo: Your path to promotion: Take the hero’s journey
Many of you know of the hero’s journey: the protagonist who goes on an adventure, learns a lesson, wins a victory and returns home transformed. It is a timeless storytelling pattern that crosses cultures and genres, with “The Odyssey,” “Star Wars” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy just a few examples. Believe it or […]
Garrett Mintz: The tool helping employers increase happiness
One finding is that work orientation is fluid, meaning it can change over time.
Tiffany Sauder: How I navigate motherhood in two-career house
For me, the journey of becoming a working mom—and a two-career household (my husband has an enormous job) —emerged slowly.
Kristen Cooper: Philanthropists are ideal investors for social impact
While a traditional startup is 100% focused on making money, a social-impact startup seeks to increase profits while making a positive impact in its community.
Barb Cutillo: Soft skills: Can you demonstrate them on a resume?
This year, I had a graduate student ask an intriguing question: “How do you demonstrate ‘soft skills’ on a resume?”
Mandy Haskett: Moving from ‘what’s wrong’ to ‘what matters’
But what if “what’s wrong” is NOT “what matters” most?
Co-workers knew he was struggling. They didn’t expect he’d buy an AR-15.
About a year before Connor Sturgeon gunned down his co-workers at a Louisville branch of Indiana-based Old National Bank, some close to the 25-year-old knew he was having problems.
Garrett Mintz: Why leadership happy talk hurts your team’s performance
Leadership happy talk stems from pressures, both real and perceived, to show the world and one’s team that everything is going great.
Mark Caswell: Why it’s time to rethink ‘mic drop’ career transitions
I’ve been on both sides: the leader helping someone transition, and most recently, the person going through one.
Tiffany Sauder: Marketing is a black box. Here’s how to solve it.
The road to solving marketing is too often a littered trail of frustrating investments, tactics that had promise but never drove business value, and marketing talent that seems to never stay more than 18 months.
Sam Julka: Making room for workers isn’t just about space
As leaders think about the challenges they face with real estate, they simply cannot compartmentalize it as separate from their workforce. In fact, they cannot separate it from other factors like technology, HR policies and company culture.
Kim and Todd Saxton: What stops entrepreneurs from moving forward?
We will be electing a president every four years, but who knows how long your family will be with you?
Samantha Julka: Discovering the recovery in the work we do
When I shared my morning experience with my colleagues, they said, “You might need to find more recovery time in your schedule.”
Kristen Cooper: Leadership Barbies speak up and take action
Given the current state of Indiana affairs, perhaps it’s time to expand the number of “leadership-oriented Barbies” (and Allans)—and to redefine what leadership looks like in 2023 by honing some new skills.
Ilya Rekhter: The road to 1,000 miners was filled with referrals
The transition from zero to one is daunting. What if the product doesn’t work as expected or, worse, what if no one wants what I’ve built?
Angie Stocklin: How raising a baby resembles building a company
Here is my kind of silly, kind of fun, but oh-so-true similarities of how raising our baby is like building my company.
More than one-third of office desks globally sit empty all week long
The findings illustrate the challenges faced by organizations as they assess office-space needs.