Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
Small Business and Startups: Prepare For the Worst
Mike | May 13th, 2013Disaster strikes. Extreme weather events, fires, data storage failures, illness or even the death of a key team member can occur at any time and when something happens, will your small business be prepared? According to ReadWrite, 74% of small businesses do not have a disaster plan and 84% don’t even carry insurance against natural [...]
What Steve Jobs Can Teach Us About Management and Leadership
Ross | May 8th, 2013“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” - Peter Drucker “You have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy.” – Steve Jobs Strong leadership without strong management can result [...]
The Business Plan. Redux.
Mike | May 6th, 2013It has been some time since I last discussed business plans in these blog pages and I thought it might be time for an update. When Ross and I were developing the idea for crowdSPRING we wrote an extensive business plan – over 80 pages of detailed description, research, tables, charts, models, and projections. The [...]
Reputation and Community
Mike | April 29th, 2013A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about building relationships with your customers that are based on trust, loyalty, transparency, integrity, and honesty. While writing the post, I had in mind a project we have been working on at crowdSPRING for well over a year now. The team is really excited that in the next couple of [...]
10 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From High School Seniors
Mike | April 22nd, 2013I have written before about things entrepreneurs can learn from people who come from various walks of life. From athletes we can learn the value focus and training, from comics we learn about of risk-taking, from chefs we learn how to stay creativity under great stress, and from musicians we learn the importance of working [...]
