Why being a workhorse is the path to successful leadership
Originally published in American City Business Journals By Joel Peterson After 25 years of teaching at Stanford Business School, I’ve had hundreds of leaders and entrepreneurs as…
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Having This 1 Trait Will Make You Likable (but Less Influential)
Originally published in Inc. By Joel Peterson All decent leaders wrestle — at least a little — with the notion of wanting to be both…
Why Being a Workhorse Is the Path to Successful Leadership
Originally published in Inc. By Joel Peterson After 25 years of teaching at Stanford Business School, I’ve had hundreds of leaders and entrepreneurs as class guests,…
These 5 skills are what it takes to become a CEO (and stay there)
Originally published in American City Business Journals By Joel Peterson I have had a few C’s on my résumé over the years: CFO, CEO, and even…
10 things great leaders do to handle a disaster
Originally published in American City Business Journals By Joel Peterson When disaster strikes — be it a deadly hurricane or a massive cyber-hack — great business leaders respond rather than react….
10 Steps to Hiring Your Startup’s World-Beating A-Team
Originally published in Entrepreneur Magazine By Miriam Rivera A new survey says there’s almost a one in four chance your management team will end up cratering…
Better than a raise: How companies are giving employees more money
By Mark Dixon and Susan Shoemaker, partners at Plante Moran Distraction stemming from debt and other money issues can lead to lower productivity; poor retirement…
6 Steps for Successfully Negotiating With an Activist Investor
Originally published in Chief Executive Magazine By Tad L. Kelly As public company CEOs and their boards know all too well, shareholder activism is here to…
4 ways to build a billion-dollar dot-com
Originally published in CNBC By Asheesh Advani In the same way we learned more than a decade ago that being a dot-com was not in itself…