Tag: administration

October 3, 2019

When you’re the company founder or CEO, a time is going to come when you’re going to have to fire someone. The first hires at a startup are too important: if you get one wrong, the company will suffer. If […]

September 30, 2019

Job Description Before you think about hiring an employee, you should develop a job description. This job description will be used when you post your job opening and will be an important document to measure potential candidates against. A job […]

September 12, 2019

Early one Monday morning this August, the Business Roundtable — an organization comprised of CEOs from almost 200 major US companies — released an official press release that announced a startling pivot: Focusing on shareholder payouts should not be all […]

September 4, 2019

Smartphones and other mobile technologies are as important to the modern office as paper and pens were years ago. They help your small business increase productivity by 85% if used properly. But there are security and employee use concerns. Small […]

August 30, 2019

Who is a leader? Is it the CEO of the company, or another executive from the C-Suite? Is it the Director or Head of the department? Is it the most senior member of the team? Actually, it’s all of the […]

August 29, 2019

There’s an axiom of leadership we rarely pause to appreciate: To be effective, leaders must have trust. “Obviously,” you may be thinking. But before you simply move on, ask yourself: What exactly do we mean when we make this statement? […]

August 28, 2019

AI-powered chatbots continue to be a hot topic among end-users and vendor communities. It is no surprise that chatbot technology is beginning to mature to offer more sophisticated solutions. Gartner has predicted that by 2022, over 70% of white-collar workers, […]

August 8, 2019

What team size is optimal? Do cross-functional virtual teams have more challenges? How often should virtual teams meet face-to-face? These and other questions led to our research study, where we collected data to better understand the divide between successful virtual […]

August 7, 2019

It’s not exactly news that programmatic advertising, automation and agency consolidation have upended the media industry. Such changes have been well documented (as well as felt personally by many of our colleagues). But change, like time, marches on, and these […]

August 5, 2019

When you’re a startup CEO, you probably don’t have all that much leadership experience. So you will end up learning by doing, and also by listening to others’ conventional wisdom about how to lead your team. That’s a great way […]