We’ve all been there — you pitch a journalist, you wait with bated breath and then nothing happens. You follow up, but still nothing. Then you move on to the next outlet because there’s no point waiting around any longer. But what if your story went viral or at least …
Read More »The Key Ingredients to Coaching Part Two
Coaching is such a key part of leadership and management. In the first part, we discussed coaching oversight, overcoming fears, imposing rest, knowing your team members, and guiding and protecting. In this article, we’ll discuss developing performance, team-building and rewards of coaching. Let’s get into it. Developing Performance When you …
Read More »What Does Good Corporate Culture Look Like?
According to a popular legend, when JFK toured NASA in the Sixties, he asked a janitor what his role at NASA was, to which the man replied, “I’m helping put a man on the moon.” More than just a buzzword, corporate culture is the fuel that turns vision into reality. …
Read More »How Cannabis Brands Can Stand Out With Values
Brand — probably the second most common word you will hear in a discussion about the cannabis industry, the first being cannabis. So how have we come to a place where branding is so important to the success of cannabis as an industry when, as an illicit product, it’s never …
Read More »4 Things That Every Business Can Learn From Esports
Growing up a fan of video games, long before esports ever became a multi-billion-dollar industry, I knew that the values I learned from gaming had an important cross-over to the real world. Little did I know that I would become an entrepreneur years later — both within and outside of …
Read More »12 Steps of Starting a New Year, Part 1: Lessons From a Business Leader With 25 Years of Sobriety
The start of the new year is packed with new goals for business leaders. As a business leader, every holiday season and its aftermath (the first month of the new year),I reflect on a particular part of my past and how it’s influenced my personal and professional life. I live …
Read More »My Honest Advice on How to Pitch
As creatives and artists, we are so close to our creations, but do we make sense when we pitch our ideas? I’d like to share two examples of pitches I’ve heard and my honest advice for how to pitch your idea in a way that best represents you and your …
Read More »Sustainability: Why Risk-Taking Is Part of Success
In 2005, Turkish immigrant Hamdi Ulukaya took a risk and bought a recently closed yogurt factory with an ambition: to make yogurt that was on par with the yogurt he had grown up with back home. For an entrepreneur, opening your own plant is no easy feat, so this was …
Read More »How to Adopt a Marathon Mindset to Reach Your Project's Distant Finish Line
When was the last time you met a recreational marathoner? Running a marathon is neither easy nor is it especially fun — it’s hours and hours of training, feet hitting the pavement, blisters, cramps and fatigue. But athletes don’t run marathons looking for an easy win or simple recreation. They …
Read More »5 Things I've Learned From the NFT Art World That Other Business Leaders Can Benefit From, Too
NFT art has been making headlines. There’s artist Victor Langlois, also known as FEWOCiOUS, whose NFT art series generated $2.16 million at a Christie’s auction this summer. Another example? Mike Winkelmann, also known as Beeple, had his art sold by Christie’s for $69 million. These numbers are jaw-dropping. However, the …
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