by Jim Schleckser | Oct 19, 2021 | Acquisitions, Entrepreneur, Growth, Leadership
The most difficult decision for every entrepreneurial company. The most important person in any startup company is its founder. This is the person who had the vision to create something from nothing while injecting their creativity and energy to make that vision come...
by Jim Schleckser | Oct 12, 2021 | Business, Culture, Delegation, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Talent
As seen on Inc.com Hiring for capacity makes all the difference. We’re all in a war for talent these days, which makes it harder than ever to find A-players to add to your team. Many of us use all kinds of analytical tools to help identify high performers such...
by Jim Schleckser | Sep 28, 2021 | Culture, Entrepreneur, Leadership
Importance of Vulnerability in Leadership: It’s a Leaders’ Superpower I have written before about how one of the superpowers any leader can have is transparency. Well, it turns out that there’s another complementary superpower any leader needs if...
by Jim Schleckser | Aug 31, 2021 | Business, Culture, Entrepreneur, Leadership
Servant Leadership Principles: Do You Have What it Takes? People claim to be servant leaders, but are they? Here are five traits servant leaders share. I have written before about what it means to be a so-called “transformational leader” and how that helps...
by Jim Schleckser | Aug 24, 2021 | Culture, Entrepreneur, Growth, Leadership
Unlike popular belief, the best entrepreneurs understand how to make risk work for them. When you ask most people to use a word or phrase to describe entrepreneurs, you’ll often hear “risk-taker.” The perception is that most entrepreneurs are...
by Jim Schleckser | Aug 17, 2021 | Business, Culture, Delegation, Leadership, Sales, Talent
Good salespeople are hard to find. Don’t waste their time on less valuable work. I was talking recently to the CEO of a small software technology business and a member of The CEO Project about some of the issues he was dealing with inside his company. One of the...
