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4 Leadership Lessons I Learned From a Marine Corps General

June 28, 2023

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Leadership is one of those skills that most people believe they have, but very few actually do, and that's unfortunate because effective leadership is critical to being a successful entrepreneur. If you want to grow your company beyond a one-person operation, you need the ability to effectively lead a team. The larger your team grows, the more effective your leadership skills need to be because you're further from the front lines. I've been fortunate enough to have experienced a wide range of leadership styles throughout my career. Some served as powerful examples to model, while others served as examples to avoid. But I learned something important from every single one of them. And without question, one of the most effective leaders I've had the opportunity to meet is Marine Corps General Anthony Henderson . I first met him while I was serving in the Marine Corps when he took command...

How to Develop an Executive Presence and Earn Respect

June 18, 2023

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Executive presence is an elusive but powerful attribute. Those who have mastered it command attention the second they enter a room. It seems effortless from the outside, but executive presence is the result of careful cultivation. Typically, executive presence is found in high-ranking leaders, but it takes more than title or rank to gain this influential attribute. There are many presidents and CEOs in the world, but few can match the presence of leaders like Ralph Lauren or Tim Cook, who wield disproportionate influence in the business world thanks to their charismatic, composed air. What is executive presence, really? We all already exude a certain presence, even if we're not aware of it. The way you dress, speak, write and interact socially all create a picture surrounding you that your peers pick up on. Those who have executive presence are intentional about their presence and tailor it caref...

Is My Customer More Important Than My Employees?

May 15, 2023

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Which came first? It's a fierce dinner table debate. Dinosaurs laid eggs, so they came first. But did the chicken egg come first? One much simpler problem to discuss is whether the customer or the employee came first. https://www.tausiinsider.com/is-my-customer-more-important-than-my-employees/?feed_id=332674&_unique_id=64620a6d9475e

How to Create a Culture of Gentle Accountability in 3 Steps

April 30, 2023

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I see it every week: the frustration over blown deadlines, the I'll-get-this-to-you-by-tomorrow commitment that floats into next week, the helplessness with always waiting on the same person to follow through on what they said they would do. So many leaders I work with are discouraged with their culture of accountability, not only because they believe they can't trust their reports, but also because they really want to . They feel like they're on a tightrope, balancing between being a compassionate, inspiring leader and a deadline-minded hardass. Accountability is an important part of culture, but according to the Workplace Accountability Study from Partners in Leadership (now Culture Partners), as many as 93% of employees are "unable to align their work or take accountability for desired results." How do effective leaders hold that tension between giving autonomy and holding...

Free Webinar | December 7: How to Lead Through Times of Economic Uncertainty

April 30, 2023

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Transparency and simplicity about the credit industry, especially in a world of financial uncertainty, is exactly what Kenneth Lin's goal was when he launched Credit Karma in 2007. Best known for pioneering free credit scores, the platform offers everything related to a person's financial goals, from identity monitoring, credit cards, and loans — all for free. Now an Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU) company, Credit Karma serves over 120 million people across the U.S., U.K., and Canada – including almost half of all U.S. millennials. In the next Leadership Lessons episode, Lin talks with series host Jason Nazar about how he's led the company from a team of three to 1,500 employees. Other topics include: Register Now About The Speakers Prior to founding Credit Karma in 2007 as its CEO, Kenneth Lin founded Multilytics Marketing, a data-driven marketing agency that actively managed more than $40 mil...

Ask Yourself These 5 Questions to Make Better Decisions

April 22, 2023

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. According to the 2019 Nobel Prize winner in economics, Daniel Kahneman , all decisions are made with partial information due to the systemic cognitive biases people bring to the decision-making process. However, decisions don't require perfection to be effective. For corporate leaders bearing the pressure to make tough calls, asking the right questions is a systematic approach to gathering information that avoids the pitfalls in pursuit of perfection. In a decade-long longitudinal study of over 2,700 leaders, Harvard Business Review (HBR) found that too many leaders were shrinking from making difficult decisions, and delays often did more damage than they sought to avoid. The bigger an organization gets, the less decisive it becomes. Even the most brilliant leaders can demand too much data before deciding. While it's well-known that executives have to make crucial decisions with limited inf...

I Lacked This One Critical Skill That Nearly Cost Me My Career and My Life

April 02, 2023

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. [Sensitive content: This article discusses gun violence] A gun was pointed a few inches from the center of my forehead. It was small. Maybe 22 calibers. Time slowed. Fight or flight kicked in, and I saw everything in my peripheral vision clearly. A couple of people were looking at us through a plate glass window from their table at the restaurant I had just left. My friends were a few feet away, wide-eyed and scared. You might be wondering how I ended up in this precarious situation, to begin with. Well, moments before, I was walking out of a restaurant. It was late, maybe 1 am. I had felt this kid staring at me. At this point, I decided to walk over to his car and ask him, "what's up?" Did I need to do this? No. Was it provocative? Yes. And now we all know how this questionable decision could have cost me my life. It goes without saying that this encounter has had a lasting impression...

How to Determine the Best Possible Solution to Any Problem

March 31, 2023

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. How do we solve problems with multiple dimensions, and what is the easiest way to come up with the best possible solutions effectively and efficiently? Whether in our business or personal life, we are constantly forced to solve problems in order to grow, but we cannot factor every dimension of the problem into our solution. And so, we need to apply a methodology that leads to the best possible solution within a well-defined framework. For instance, say we want to change all the light fixtures in our home. The first step is deciding what type of lights fit our budget and can accommodate our children's light sensitivity issues if these are our primary objectives. For some families, the budget may not be a major concern, and the light sensitivity issues may be for elders rather than children. We cannot search every shop in the world for the perfect light or ignore our priorities. For each small or l...

Why Leaders Must Learn to Forgive and Forget

March 14, 2023

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The year was 1980. I sat in the august anteroom of one of the nation's leading private foundations waiting to meet its CEO, a man who possessed the resources to provide much-needed financial resources to the small, nonprofit art and design college I'd recently founded. With barely 100 students at the time, SCAD was a scrappy, young startup and needed all the financial support we could get. Even to have landed an appointment with this powerful man was, in its own way, a victory. Every year, his foundation contributed millions of dollars to other nonprofit art organizations and institutions of higher learning. I had a strong case to make for SCAD and the evidence to back it up, including our first SCAD catalog, which I'd written and published myself. I believed SCAD would change the world and transform higher education in the process, with our mission to prepare students for creative profes...

19 Best Skills to Put On a Resume That Employers Will Love

March 01, 2023

The best resumes have comprehensive lists of desirable key skills to make employers look twice and choose one candidate over another. If you want to ace your next job interview and make your job application stand out from other candidates, you need to put the best details possible on your resume to impress a prospective employer right from the get-go. But what job skills should you write down? This article will break down 19 of the best skills for a resume that any hiring manager will love. Soft skills employers love to see So-called "soft skills" are usually people-focused, generalized or applicable to various industries and situations. Nevertheless, employers like to see plenty of soft skills in their candidates. Related: How to Make a Resume That Gets You the Job Leadership skills Leadership skills have always been in demand, and that's even truer today. Anyone can be a good worker, but only a few employees can successfully run and manage teams, especi...

4 Commitments All Inclusive Leaders Must Follow

February 26, 2023

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. 2022 was the first year of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion accountability for inclusive leaders. Our future will be filled with increasing expectations from employees, customers and business partners, looking for us to step up and courageously respond to societal needs and problems across human differences. It won't be easy, but it will be good. Let's bring some substance into our learning of how to lead more inclusively. Here's a deeper dive into four crucial concepts and skills for inclusive leaders in the coming year. 1. Choose kindness over making others wrong I'm unsure when or why we permitted kindness to become a sign of fragility or ineffectiveness. We have a nauseating array of "leaders" who demonize people who disagree politically with them, call names, refuse to care and instead foment the pain of trans people . The examples of meanness and cruelty are simply too...

Startup Leaders Who Adopt This Mindset Are More Likely to Succeed

February 20, 2023

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Startups know that the biggest conquest is getting their brand out there. While it sounds like an insurmountable challenge, taking one step at a time results in a riptide that could lead to growth acceleration and brand awareness optimization. Think of it as swimming through still waters — a stagnant area that seems empty of opportunity. But if you start dipping your toes in it, a ripple effect takes place, creating motion in the entire space. Once you swim faster, you start disrupting the stillness of the water, creating waves that would go on to the opposite shore. And before you know it, you've already established your presence in a once-inert territory. One item leads to another. Startup leaders who think this way have a bigger chance of winning their game. It's not about knowing what the end tunnel looks like; rather, it's the journey of getting there and the series of chain reaction...

Too Patient or Not Patient Enough? How Leaders Strike a Balance

February 08, 2023

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We've all been told that "patience is a virtue." Our parents admonished us when we incessantly asked, "Are we there yet?" Our teachers scolded us when we requested our grades back mere minutes after we finished the test. And even though we have now (hopefully) aged out of our restless childhoods, it is still just as important that leaders practice patience in business. Businesses are under immense pressure to produce results at break-neck speed in today's fast-paced world. However, more often than not, the best, most sustainable results take time to achieve. What's more, business results require the efforts of fallible, imperfect humans — people will miscommunicate, get sick and disagree. Month-long projects stretch into years, and rockstar employees fall behind. Patience is a critical yet undervalued element of great leadership — but how do leaders know when to be pat...

How to Respectively Decline Employees' Suggestions

January 30, 2023

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. One of your crucial responsibilities as the CEO or General Manager is making the best decision for your company. While at this, there are occasions when your employees are buzzing with ideas, which seem fantastic to them, but may not be the best fit for the company's growth. Reasons may be because of the company's current stage or other factors. Giving constructive decline to employees' suggestions is far more than just a typical staff management duty. One of the most beneficial things you can do as a manager is to provide employees feedback on why the suggestion may not be the best fit. Your capacity to pinpoint specific areas for improvement and motivate your team to take charge of their development will determine how well you can assist staff members in moving on to the next level. And when you give your employees constructive criticism, it can inspire them to improve their performance...

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