By Dave Ansett, an EO Melbourne member As client budgets shrink, staff redundancies take hold and the daily perks of working for a dynamic business evaporate, entrepreneurs face the challenge of keeping their staff motivated,… Read more »
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Secrets to Creating 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 »
The ABCs of Business
By Natacha Beim, an EO Vancouver member and CEO and founder of Core Education & Fine Arts junior kindergarten schools. The greatest lesson I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey is this: Keep moving forward. Sometimes… Read more »
The Entrepreneurial Balancing Act
By Jeff Solomon, senior vice president of Leads360. I think having the right people is the difference between running a good company and a great one; more importantly, having the right culture is the key… Read more »
Using Communication to Foster Collaboration
By Eric Liljenstolpe, FranklinCovey, Costa Rica In one of our leadership workshops, we do an exercise where we practice phrases to promote synergy, participation and collaboration. Throughout these exercises, I have observed that the participants… Read more »
Basketball and Business: Ending Internal Competition
By Mark Eaton, former professional basketball player, speaker and president of 7ft4.com, LLC. In the National Basketball Association (NBA), when anyone on a team is playing for himself rather than the team as a whole,… Read more »
EO Queenstown University – Day 2: Keynotes, Rainstorms and Jet Packs, Oh My!
Keynote speaker Ngahi Bidois talked about the value of being authentic in his presentation on Thursday. Day two of the 2012 EO Queenstown University was filled with raucous laughter, shared insights … and enough rain… Read more »
How I Promoted Perfection at Work
By Barry Raber, an EO Portland member and president of Business Property Trust What do you say to an employee who achieves perfection? In America, when someone does something right the first time, we often… Read more »
The Importance of Reputation During Crises
By Ardian Elkana, president and director of Avigra Communications Although most countries have been hit hard by the current global financial crisis, Indonesia has not suffered that much. In fact, Indonesia is one of only… Read more »
Six Myths about Social Media
By Jonathan Levy, EO Silicon Valley member and principal of Lucid Path Consulting. If “synergy” was the buzz-word of the 1980′s, and “dot-com” was the buzz-phrase of the 1990′s, then “Social Media” is the present-day… Read more »