There’s an infamous dilemma that all marketplace founders face: Should they start with supply or demand? Uber faced this question in 2008. Initially, Uber’s founders designed...
Business partnerships — like all partnerships — are a two-way street. I have been working in PR for a long time. And one of the things I have...
Full-time work has always had one big advantage: safety. The reason your parents, and your parents’ parents spent so much of their lives putting in long...
Imagine you’re responsible for an enormous cruise ship. What would your role be? I often ask this question when I first meet a new leader. What’s...
There are two types of candidates: experienced and trajectory. Experienced hires have lived through the wringer. They’ve solved major problems for other companies and they have...
In Sapiens, Yuval Harari discusses how the most influential members of society tend to be polymaths. They may do really well in one area, but their expertise...
Not all terminations need to happen. For the ones that do, preserving dignity is key. I turned into a robot the first time I fired someone....
My parents come from Sri Lanka, and I was born in the UK. We were one of those families that moved every two or three years....
I was born with a fear of the ocean. When I first tried scuba diving years ago, I was terrified. Terrified of losing control, of not...
When people want to learn a new topic, internet research alone is not enough. In Gong’s early days, one of our biggest hurdles was learning about...
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...