How your looks affect your leadership success
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Start-ups

How your looks affect your leadership success

When we consider the factors that make a leader successful,we often think about their intellect,their people skills,perhaps even their qualifications and experience.

  • byJames Adonis

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When bad news can be good news at work
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Start-ups

When bad news can be good news at work

Among the most common Hollywood clichés is the nervous “I’ve got a bad feeling about this” and the frantic “there’s no time to explain!”

  • byJames Adonis
Entrepreneurs:mostly just fleeing a crappy job?
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Start-ups

Entrepreneurs:mostly just fleeing a crappy job?

Many entrepreneurs are drawn to business ownership like a magnet,an irresistible pull that often preoccupies their mind even in high school.

  • byJames Adonis
Is the best advice to “take your advice and shove it”?
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Start-ups

Is the best advice to “take your advice and shove it”?

Human beings are a sensitive lot when it comes to advice.

  • byJames Adonis
The upside of being interrupted at work
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Start-ups

The upside of being interrupted at work

I never thought I’d ever admit to something like this,at least not publicly,but the small talk in the office I used to find awkward I’m seriously starting to miss.

  • byJames Adonis
Need funds? Ask investors on a sunny day
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Start-ups

Need funds? Ask investors on a sunny day

There is perhaps no entrepreneurial stage more vulnerable than the very beginning when a startup is barely a startup.

  • byJames Adonis
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Checkout operators:are they still needed?
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Start-ups

Checkout operators:are they still needed?

When self-service checkouts first became a thing,I refused to use them.

  • byJames Adonis
Should employees select your in-store music? No
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Should employees select your in-store music? No

It’s a mystery how the store at which I worked throughout my late teens survived my colleagues and me.

  • byJames Adonis
Online reviews could be harming your business
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Start-ups

Online reviews could be harming your business

It pays to pay attention to what staff say online - here’s why.

  • byJames Adonis
How to tell someone has leadership potential
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Start-ups

How to tell someone has leadership potential

Is it time we got beyond psychometric tests to predict which workers will succeed?

  • byJames Adonis
The six traps robbing you of spare time
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Start-ups

The six traps robbing you of spare time

Being busy has become a status symbol - but is it making you happy?

  • byJames Adonis