What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From A Glass Of Wine

What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From A Glass Of Wine

Full disclosure: I love wine. It’s a fascination and affection that goes beyond just consumption. So, one has to cut me a bit of slack in trying to connect entrepreneurship with a glass of wine. Truthfully, it’s an enticing framework to share some more serious observations and insights gained over the years. So, pop the…

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5 Simple Rules for Negotiating Successfully

When I was a young Product Manager at Mattel, I was tasked with negotiating an important promotional deal. It was really my first meaningful negotiation assignment and involved confronting an eclectic artist/designer whose external eccentricities actually belied his business savvy. I recall vividly sitting in my boss’s office with my “adversary” and stumbling my way…

8 “C-words” Associated With Successful Businesses Today

8 “C-words” Associated With Successful Businesses Today

It occurred to me recently that certain concepts, trends, guideposts, whatever you want to call them, kept coming up in my reading, research, discussions, and consultations. They’re not necessarily new or comprehensive, but definitely relevant as businesses succeed and fail faster in a business environment that is increasingly global and digital. And they all begin…

Are Performance Reviews Underperforming?

Are Performance Reviews Underperforming?

Articles I’ve read recently in The Los Angles Business Journal and The Wall Street Journal that indirectly touched on the topic of how to measure the performance of employees were the inspiration of this piece. It made me think about the decades-old and well-used tool known as the “Annual Performance Review.”  Goodness knows, I’ve had many given to me,…

The Truth About Honesty

The topic of honesty is somewhat unavoidable. That’s a likely product of a couple of obvious things: First, we inevitably face choices everyday which challenge how we define our notion of honesty. Beyond that, issues related to honesty, or more prominently, the lack thereof, serve as constant fodder for the news media-drenched world in which…