Insights from Leading Entrepreneurs
It’s graduation season for many, which makes this a perfect time to experience-share with the next generation of adults entering the workforce and maybe joining your company. Have you ever written a graduation address in your head—perhaps even delivered part of it to your own kids or employees?
We asked EO members what lessons they wished they had known when they graduated and joined the working world. Here’s what they shared. What would you add? (more…)
Categories: general Leadership Startup Work-Life Balance
Tags: Adam Levy Christina Bellman Jean-Michel Lebeau Kate Hancock manny padda Stacy Goldberg Vlad Molchadski
Craig Hall, the writer of Boom: Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups, shares his view on the current state of entrepreneurship in the U.S.
In 2011, I heard a speech by Mark Zandi [chief economist of Moody’s Analytics] revealing that entrepreneurship in the U.S. was in trouble. I couldn’t believe it at first, but after beginning my own research, I became very concerned. We start half as many new businesses in this country today as we did 30 years ago. I began comparing my personal experience as an entrepreneur starting my business 50 years ago to the entrepreneurial ecosystem today.
Categories: Coaching Entrepreneurial Journey general Inspirational Interview Startup
Tags: American Entrepreneurship Boom: Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups Craig Hall Kathryn Hall
Written for EO by Danielle Canstello, a member of the content marketing team at Pyramid Analytics.
Social media is an ideal way to engage with customers and potential customers, and drive people to your business site.
But that doesn’t make it simple. There are plenty of potential potholes in social media marketing. Maybe your Facebook page is popular, but your Instagram account isn’t. Perhaps you’ve noticed that your competitors have been amassing followers at a higher rate than you.
Don’t despair! Follow these guidelines to improve your social media marketing efforts. (more…)
Tags: Danielle Canstello marketing Pyramid Analytics sales social media marketing
The concept of “practicing mindfulness” has grown in popularity in the last decade. Mindfulness for kids, mindfulness to quit smoking, mindful eating, mindfulness at the office—it’s become a catch-all buzzword.
With claims that mindfulness can cure everything from addiction to anxiety, it’s no surprise that people from all walks of life are becoming students of mindfulness.
To unpack the truth about mindfulness, Octane revisited a conversation with Dandapani (pictured below), a former monk, a Hindu priest, an entrepreneur and one of EO’s top-rated speakers. (more…)
Categories: Coaching general Inspirational
Tags: concentration Dandapani eo nashville eo speaker Lallenia Birge mindfulness Stephen Lichter
Written by Alex Tolbert. Alex is the founder and CEO of BerniePortal, the founder of Bernard Health and an EO Nashville member. The following article appeared on the BerniePortal blog. This column was originally published in HR Technologist.
If you have hourly employees, you know how important it is to keep an accurate and compliant record of employee hours. On paper, this is challenging, and it has traditionally created a significant administrative burden for the human resources (HR), payroll, or project management departments.
As a result, more and more employers are taking their HR administration online, including time and attendance tracking. But how do you know if you have the right solution for your organization and whether your time-tracking processes are optimized for compliance and efficiency? (more…)
Categories: general
Tags: Alex Tolbert Bernard Health BerniePortal hr time and attendance system time tracking
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