You’ll always feel better after getting together with a good friend—even if it’s on short notice. As a founder, I’m always short on time. And if...
It goes almost without saying, but if you don’t have the right product-market fit, it’s incredibly difficult to succeed as a company. Founders often think they...
A business partnership is a relationship, and if something fundamental isn’t meshing, you have to make a change. Years ago, I was about to go into...
If you want to build a truly great team, focus on the individual personalities your employees introduce to your organization. There was a time when I...
Only when you put your agenda (aka your ego) aside can you truly build trust and connect with other people. Philosophers have been grappling with the...
How you achieve your goals over the long term has a lot to do with believing in yourself—and knowing, deep down, that you’re capable of doing...
A lot of people say they’ll take on difficult tasks, but few are truly willing to do what it takes to see things through. Throughout my...
It’s not only possible—but a must—to build a company that’s ethical. Ethics is one of the biggest issues facing the tech industry today. Increasingly complex technologies...
If you want to present yourself as a high-value individual within your network, you can’t be a people pleaser. It’s incredibly difficult to accomplish any large-scale...
Passion alone isn’t enough for business success. Starting a company doesn’t make any sense. Consider this: the odds of failure are extremely high. Each year, over...
Joe Gardner
The one sport that taught me the most about leading teams and building companies was hockey––a game of tenacity, toughness,...
Richard Newman
Life-changing conversations don’t always happen after a presentation in the workplace—they happen in elevators, hallways, and break rooms. Your greatest...
Brian D. Evans
People with an atypical mindset use what doesn’t work as a way to find opportunities that everyone else is ignoring.
Sami Rusani
Whether you’re giving an impromptu sales pitch or trying to make friends in a bar, your ability to connect is...
JC Grubbs
A strong privacy policy is a serious competitive advantage for a business. After all, if data is your stock and...
Minutes Staff
Here’s why storytelling, patient data-driven marketing, and—imagine this—offline marketing need to be part of your marketing strategy in 2019 and...
Jeff Byers
I told myself that not only would I work in the offseason, but I would find a job that required...
Bibop Gresta
Sustainability isn’t just about how the product is created. It’s also very much about how the product is destroyed. This...
Joe Gardner
If you’re an investor, know that these pieces must be in place before you invest in a startup: The founders...
Minutes Staff
Work-life balance means something different to everyone, but we all need it to be the best we can both at...
Matthew Jones
We all deal with major life changes—it’s part of being human. Whether it’s death, changing jobs, re-locating, or another significant event, each...
Matthew Jones
Capitalism turns people into commodities. People, in all of their complexities, get reduced to titles, net worth, and are only viewed...
Dan Moore
The other morning I woke to a bombardment of millennial tropes. They came from my timelines and news feeds, my...
Nicolas Cole
You’ve heard the term “mid-life crisis.” It’s that time in every person’s life when they wake up one morning, their...
Nicolas Cole
The term "thought leadership" is a fairly new one in the marketing world.
Nicolas Cole
A resume is nothing but a list of skills. Here's what's missing.
Nicolas Cole
This is precisely why improvement and growth is a process--not a destination.
Nicolas Cole
This 1 shift will immediately put you in a better mental state.
Nicolas Cole
It's not your company blog, that's for sure.
Nicolas Cole
That person with 1M followers? They might not be as influential as you think...