Story provided by SBA and written by Tim Berry – If there’s just one formal business skill every business owner should have, it’s understanding and forecasting cash flow. It’s not intuitive because it’s not the same as profits; but it’s vital. We spend cash, not profits. Here’s my recommendation for a relatively simple way to … Continue reading
Story provided by WeWork and written by Kylie Ora Lobell Over the past several decades, the ideal American work schedule was 9 to 5, Monday through Friday. People would go into their offices for 40 hours a week, take two weeks of vacation, and that was it. Now, 40 is not the standard number of hours … Continue reading
Story provided by the L.A. Times – Advice on how to attract and manage millennial employees has become a fixture of business journalism and corporate reports. Thanks to extensive research, we know that millennials may come to the workplace with “a sense of entitlement, a tendency to overshare on social media, and frankness verging on … Continue reading
Story provided by Fast Company – If you think the boss should have all the answers, you might be confused about what it means to be a good leader. As a general rule of thumb, every person hired should be smarter than the manager at what they’ve been hired to do, says Ian Siegel, cofounder … Continue reading
Story provided by Quartz – Last Saturday, I woke up with a sore throat. I had recently had a head cold, though, so I figured it was nothing to worry about. I popped some ibuprofen and completed a 14-mile training run as planned. By 6:30 that night, I had spiked a high fever and my … Continue reading
Story provided by The Washington Post – Traveling with kids presents challenges that grow and change along with your children. No sooner do they outgrow those cumbersome car seats and strollers than you are weighed down by the dilemma of what to do after they bed down at 7 p.m. — and then they become … Continue reading
Story provided by Inc. – Our brains weren’t built to multitask. Our brains are designed to focus on one thing at a time, and bombarding them with information only slows them down. MIT neuroscientist Earl Miller notes that our brains are “not wired to multitask well… when people think they’re multitasking, they’re actually just switching from one task to … Continue reading