By Mark Sanna, an EO South Florida member and president and CEO of Breakthrough Coaching. I thought running a business was hard, but nothing compares to family health issues. The last year and a half… Read more »
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To Spread Your Brand On Facebook, Don’t Target Your Fans–Target Their Friends
By Gregory Ferenstein, Contributing Writer at FastCompany.com Facebook and ComScore have teamed up for a new service, Social Essentials. It offers unprecedented insights into the influence of brands on social media, complete with detailed credit… Read more »
Death by PowerPoint
By Kenny Nguyen, CEO of Big Fish Presentations, a high-octane design firm specializing in the art of the presentation. The common PowerPoint presentation— how often we’ve sat in a crowded classroom or a stuffy library… Read more »
Why I Tend to Project a Little High
By Tom Szaky, chief executive of TerraCycle. I have a confession to make: I am a chronic over-projector. This fact has even been reported several times by The New York Times. In May 2008 I… Read more »
The Top 3 Things I’ve Learned about Being an Entrepreneur are…
By James Stinson, CEO of Global Sky, Inc. #1 Good ideas are not enough. It’s not enough to have a good idea for a business. You have to learn how to market and sell that… Read more »
Don’t Fear Failure, Embrace It!
By Beth Armknecht Miller, a leadership advisor, coach and Vistage chair for Executive Velocity, Inc. We all fear failing. I know I do. Yet, I also know that without failure I remain stagnant and soon become irrelevant to… Read more »
Building an Ideal Work Environment
By John DeHart, co-founder of Nurse Next Door. When building a company, one of the first challenges entrepreneurs face is hiring the right people. The next challenge, of course, is how to keep the people… Read more »
Lessons for Oprah (and Other Entrepreneurs)
By Kent Bernhard Jr., News Editor of Portfolio.com After a rocky start for her cable network, Oprah Winfrey is stepping in as CEO of OWN. Here are five lessons for entrepreneurs from Oprah’s experience. Everyone knew… Read more »
A Leading Indicator of Employee Retention
By Beth Armknecht Miller, a leadership advisor, coach and Vistage chair for Executive Velocity, Inc. A recent Employee Engagement Survey by HR Solutions of Chicago, Illinois, USA, revealed that employees were more engaged with their work when they… Read more »
Creating a Unique Company Culture
By Shona Mackin, an EO Sydney member and Managing Director of Freedom Events. I knew I was on track with my company culture plan when, on the office suggestion board one day, an employee had… Read more »