What to Do When a Client Breaks Up With You

From Entrepreneur

These days, customer relationships have the life span of a Hollywood marriage, or, worse, a series of one-night stands. Here's how to learn from the breakup. READ MORE

Amazon breaks records by breaking rules

From MultiBriefs Exclusive

"There are no rules here — we're trying to accomplish something." — Thomas A. Edison READ MORE

Hiring the Best People

From the Harvard Business Review

Patty McCord, Netflix’s former Chief Talent Officer, sees hiring as constant matchmaking. Building a team of people that gets amazing work done, she says, requires managers to really know what they need, and for HR to actually understand the workings of the business. She says money should not be the reason someone leaves and that we should stop using words like “poaching” and “firing.” READ MORE

3 Ways Your Office Will Change in 2018

From Inc.com

2018 will see our workspaces becoming ever more innovative, comfortable, and hospitable. READ MORE

Should Business Be ‘Grateful’?

From the Wall Street Journal

Even from some who should know better, Corporate America is hearing that, to validate the new tax law, companies must do particular things with particular dollars, and not do other things. READ MORE

How To Cope With Decision Fatigue

From Forbes

Decision fatigue refers to the deteriorating quality of decisions as one is forced to engage in more and more decision-making. If you’ve ever planned an event, re-designed a home or purchased a new car, you probably remember the exhaustion and indifference that eventually resulted from being faced with so many choices. READ MORE

22 Qualities That Make a Great Leader

Want to be a laudable leader? Study these characteristics -- and the wise words of leaders who strive to embody them. READ MORE

Five Rules for Pursuing Project Work

From Win Without Pitching

Some firms don’t take project work at all, while for others project revenue vastly outstrips the income from their few ongoing clients. What’s the proper role of project work in your firm, and what’s the proper approach to pursuing or vetting it? In this article I lay out some specific guidelines on projects as a part of your overall client mix, and the rules of pursuing and accepting project work. READ MORE

To Have an Innovative Company, Let Your Employees Take the Reins

From Entrepreneur

'In order to clean, they need to get messy,' serial entrepreneur Justin Klosky tells Entrepreneur's editor-in-chief Jason Feifer. READ MORE

Help Your Team Stop Overcommitting by Empowering Them to Say No

From Harvard Business Review

We live in a culture of “yes.” We don’t want to disappoint our bosses, colleagues, families, or friends, so we say “yes” as often as we can manage. But when we overcommit ourselves, we spend our time checking things off a list rather than actually creating value. Without the ability to say “no” to low-level tasks in order to say “yes” to groundbreaking ones, people stop innovating. Overcome this problem by instituting a value assessment system: Instead of saying “yes” or “no” to a project on a case-by-case basis, rate all new initiatives on a scale of 1 to 10. READ MORE

Do leaders need to be innovative?

From MultiBriefs: Exclusive

Buzzwords can develop a life of their own. Being called a leader used to be sufficient. Now, the adjectives describing the type of leader we are have become critical. From authentic to zero-tolerance, compassionate to servant, we are recognizing the sometimes-vast but more often nuanced differences in leadership styles. READ MORE

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ERP - Why Your Small Business Needs It Now

From The Huffington Post

Even if your business is small, you might need the power of ERP to grow it. READ MORE

How the Best Companies in the World Run All-Hands Meetings

From Entrepreneur

Change your all-hands meetings and gain the trust of your valued employees. READ MORE

Super Communication: 10 Must-See TED Talks That Will Make You Take Action

From Forbes

When it comes to high impact communication it is hard to surpass the power of TED. Not only are the pithy 17 minute presentations a mark of high credibility, the tight format and preparation that goes into a TED or even an affiliate TEDx speech results in an outcome that is destined to influence thousands (or even millions) of people for years to come. READ MORE

How Less Than $2,400 Can Get You $150,000 Worth of Media Attention

From Inc.com

PR can be an amazing, untapped beast for attention and lead generation--but only if you reframe your mindset. READ MORE

What is Culture Analytics

From Jamie Notter

In the context of our work, culture analytics is the science of using workplace culture data to generate meaningful actions that improve organizational results, and it is the heart of what we do at WorkXO Solutions. When we created the Workplace Genome,  with Charlie Judy, based on the observation that what’s out there in the marketplace to help companies measure their culture—and DO something about it—is just not good enough. READ MORE

Why This CEO Appointed An Employee To Change Dumb Company Rules

From Fast Company

Hootsuite’s “Czar of Bad Systems” has the authority to fix processes that aren’t working–anywhere in the company. READ MORE

To Motivate Employees, Show Them How They’re Helping Customers

From Harvard Business Review

Think back to your first day on the job. If you’re like most people, you felt excited and were eager to get down to work. But, based on the results of field research I recently conducted, I am willing to guess that just a few months later that excitement dissipated and you began to feel dissatisfaction, even boredom, with some aspects of your job. You’ve probably witnessed a similar trend among the employees you’ve hired and managed as well. READ MORE

3 Ways to Encourage an Ownership Mindset in Your Employees

From Entrepreneur

Your company grows by leaps when you get buy-in from team members and help them see their potential to lead from within. READ MORE

Bootstrapping Innovation: 6 Tactics That Work

From Inc.com

How to get resourceful innovating without seeking funding and still win big. READ MORE