StartABiz Staff
There is a dangerous and destructive idea fomenting in American society today, and it permeates almost every aspect of modern life. From politics to business, our society is increasingly mistaking aggression for strength, and bullying for leadership. One need only look at the nature of Donald Trump’s bombastic, aggressive, and wildly popular Presidential campaign for proof of this disturbing...
I am immersed in and surrounded by goofy, ridiculous ideas every day and for the most part it doesn’t bother me. Nearly every working day I go to a meeting where someone says, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it!” one of the granddaddies of business lies.
Most of the important things in business can’t be measured, but...
by Jan Spruijt
During a course we developed at Avans University this winter, we asked students to gather relevant business cases on innovation and entrepreneurship in order to analyse them and prepare discussions around organization design. The course was based on the following model:
The following list is a selection of the business cases they found, mostly based on the Lean...
by Polina Marinova
When Marc Benioff decided to quit his job at Oracle and start his own company – the now $50 billion cloud software giant Salesforce – he turned to executive coach Tony Robbins.
Robbins, who has been called “The CEO Whisperer,” has advised Fortune 500 CEOs, high-profile entrepreneurs and prominent athletes in his 38 years of...
By Christina DesMarais
The most successful people I know make navigating business and life look easy, often because they have their crap together more than most people. They get up early, stay in front of health issues, and are smart about money. They know the value of a good night's sleep, a restorative vacation, and a well-written book. And they stick...
Last week I spoke to business plan competition hopefuls at the Science Business and Industry Library here in Manhattan. Myself and other contest winners go back periodically and share our competition experience with other hopefuls, as well as what we have been doing since winning.
As I stood at the microphone prior to beginning my speech, I answered more informal...
Warren Bennis, one of the pioneers of contemporary leadership studies, was fond of saying, “The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.” It’s a distinction that should speak volumes to anyone who seeks to both manage and lead in an organization.
Bennis, who died in 2014, once wrote out a list of 12 differences between managers and...
by Ginetta Vedrickas
A recent report says 60 per cent of the city’s home owners would prefer to improve their existing property rather than shoulder the expense of leaving the area they love for a district where they could afford more space, but which is less attractive.
When you are out to create extra room, a garden building is cheaper than...
If you're like me, or any of my clients, when you first got the idea to go into business for yourself, I bet it felt like a mixture of exciting and also a little scary at that same time, right?
And you probably felt a pretty big pull to make this exciting, scary thing work no matter what.... nothing could...
Kickstarting a startup is easy, but the challenging bit is to scale it and turn it into a profitable enterprise. Moreover focussing only on scaling the startup is not enough, one needs to make sure that the growth is on a steady curve.
Successful startups have to keep up with the changing wants and needs of customers on a regular...