By Beth Armknecht Miller, a leadership advisor, coach and Vistage chair for Executive Velocity, Inc. Why is it important to develop future leaders within your company? Continuity of company culture, labor shortages, and an unexpected death… Read more »
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“How we Compete with Apple”
By Nicole Carter, associate producer for Inc.com After two decades of working with the tech giant, Darryl Peck opened a small Apple retail store called PeachMac. Here’s how he grew his business by imitating and… 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 »
Six Social Media Myths that are Limiting Your Company’s Success
By Jonathan Levi, an EO Silicon Valley member and CEO of Jlevi Streetwerks, Inc. 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”… Read more »
The Peanut Butter in Your Organizational Sandwich
By Jill Amstutz, vice president of communications at the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). Let’s face it— middle management is no one’s career goal (or at least no one who reads this blog.) For many, however, it is… Read more »
Forget About Best Practices
Hey, Overdrive readers! I came across this awesome article, and I wanted to share it with you business experts. I’m interested in reading your reactions to this insightful piece on best practices. Author Carol Sanford says… Read more »
How to Swim with Sharks
What I’ve learned about winning business against – and with – mega-competitors. By John Dillard, president and co-founder of Big Sky Associates As many readers of Overdrive know, it’s really hard to be a young entrepreneur… Read more »
The Spinning Top Model
By Jeffrey Stukuls, an EO Austin member and the chief synthesizer of Great Ideas Uphill Education. I’ve always hated the traditional organizational chart for three reasons – 1) customers are on the bottom (come on, really?),… Read more »
5 Reasons for Brands Not to Outsource Social Media Marketing
By Kent Lewis, an EO Portland member and president and founder of Anvil Media, Inc., a search engine marketing agency. On 9 March, an employee of NMS, Chrysler’s outsourced social media marketing agency, sent a… Read more »
Breaking Free from the Boredom
By Bob Shenefelt, an EO Detroit and CEO of RCS International. Boredom. It can strike employees and entire companies if you’re not looking. I’ve been there, and I can tell you that where there’s a bored… Read more »