Managing Employees

[ad_1] The following excerpt is from Riaz Khadem and Linda Khadem’s book Total Alignment. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound To measure your company’s vision requires a deeper understanding of what the words that you use to define it really mean. You’ll need to dig a little deeper to make …

[ad_1] Elon Musk leads Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and now The Boring Company, giving him a guiding hand on the future of transportation and the survival of the humanity. On Friday, April 28, he sat down with TED’s head curator, Chris Anderson, to discuss his new side project — digging tunnels — and …

[ad_1] Why would someone leave a six-figure dream job? It all comes down to fairness. Kapor Center for Social Impact and Harris Poll recently released its Tech Leavers Study, the first of its kind to study why employees voluntarily leave tech jobs. The study polled a group of 2,006 U.S. …

[ad_1] Earlier this year, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that he was looking for a second-in-command to help him manage the company. For Kalanick, famous for his scrappy entrepreneurship, hiring a No. 2 was a great way for him to focus on his strengths and let someone else manage Uber’s day-to-day operations. …

[ad_1] If you’re an entrepreneur in charge of a growing business, you eventually will be required to hire employees. Ideally, these people will take some of the workload off your shoulders, allowing you to focus on meeting with clients and growing the company. Unfortunately, things don’t always go as planned. …

[ad_1] There’s a bad relationship trickle-down effect happening between leaders in companies. A study by Vanderbilt University published in January 2015 found that when mid-level managers don’t have a good working relationship with their boss, the effects are felt down the line from senior leaders to front line employees. The effect of this …

[ad_1] The following excerpt is from the staff of Entrepreneur Media’s book Start Your Own Travel Hosting Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound Airbnb is successful because it’s built a loyal and global online community that’s comprises trav­elers and hosts. Whenever someone sets up an Airbnb account and plans to …

[ad_1] The tech world is often led by younger individuals, which makes sense when you consider the bold innovations that each generation brings to the world of technology. However, when it comes to non-tech startups, the average age of a successful entrepreneur is 40. The good news is that rules …

[ad_1] Every leader knows that bad employees are bad for business, but average employees can be even worse. A recent McKinsey & Company paper suggested a reason why, saying that average employees’ performance ratings do not indicate future performance. Related: How to deal with average to slightly below average employees Several years ago, …

[ad_1] Conversations about gender dynamics in leadership usually focus on what women can do differently to be more effective. But men also play a part in building better working relationships and developing more balanced leaders. Leadership clashes between men and women typically stem from the same root as most other problems in the workplace: communication …