June 18, 2013

A Story of Authentic Leadership by Gill Rider

leadership lessons from Gill Rider

Simple real-life stories give us lessons on entrepreneurship and leadership. Gill Rider relates one in this two-minute video posted by Harvard Business Review. The president of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development talks about an experience she had which taught her a lesson on authentic leadership. The story happened years ago when she was [...]

How Small Businesses Can Make Their Audience Watch and Share their Ads

Secrets of modern advertising

Every now and then we come across an ad that hooks us up till the end. Usually, we tend to share these ads in any way we can. But have you even asked the question why you tend to like and share an advertisement? Thales Teixeira did. And he took that extra mile and made [...]

The Simpler, the Better: A Strategy that Influences Action

Donald Sull on simple strategy

A lousy execution is often blamed for great strategies not producing great results. However, Donald Sull believes otherwise as seen in this video by Harvard Business Review. The London Business School professor is confident that an unsuccessful strategy is usually the effect of the strategy itself. Even if the strategy is so grand, it still [...]

Noam Wasserman’s 3R’s to Avoid for Start-up Founders

Avoid the 3R's

As start-up founders, you have the prime role of looking forward to long-term goals without endangering those short term ones. Hence, any wrong decisions you make may spell the success or failure of your business. In a video by Harvard Business Review, Noam Wasserman outlines three common pitfalls founders commit in the founding years of [...]