23 Feb A Smarter System: Management Processes for Entrepreneurs
When the crash rate for air travel shrank to 0.04% per 100 million miles, it was not because pilots became smarter—it was because smarter systems were put in place. Expectations...
20 Feb Fly Safely: Key Leadership Lessons for Entrepreneurs
While traveling by plane recently, I was reading an article about the statistical likelihood of plane crashes. I actually found this article very comforting for several reasons. First, a crash event...
29 Sep Management Mistakes To Avoid As An Entrepreneur
The Peter Principle: things that work well will be applied in more and more challenging applications - until inevitably, they reach a point at which they have exceeded their ability...
02 Sep An Entrepreneur’s Most Important Leadership Duty
The one thing an entrepreneur must do to motivate her team is to give personalized attention and feedback. I approach the financial markets with a scientific approach, analyzing academic research and...
18 Aug Entrepreneurship 101: How To Create a Dream Team
Last week, I blogged about using personality test data to avoid a hiring disaster - the most costly kind of mistake, in terms of money and time, that an entrepreneur...
12 Jun Success Or Failure For Your Team Starts With You
When you build a company from scratch, every person you add to your growing team must be an "A player." An A player is not just good at her job:...