Here are this week’s links to a few good stories that we found and selected because we feel they might add valuable insights and perspectives for small to medium size businesses.
- The leadership team at Genesis HR Solutions is made up of more women than men. In addition, a growing number of the businesses we partner with are women-owned. For this reason we took particular interest in Business Advice For All of Us written by Paul Shread of Time Magazine, who is a favorite writer of ours. He promotes a book written by Emily Bennington that has great recommendations for everyone in business, regardless of gender. The book is entitled Who Says It’s a Man’s World: The Girl’s Guide to Corporate Domination. Shread summarizes some of Bennington’s advice that is worth mentioning here:
- Your reputation is your best professional asset.
- Goals are short-lived, but virtues last forever.
- Sometimes having the right answer isn’t as important as having the right attitude.
- Like diets, careers shouldn’t start tomorrow.
- Confidence isn’t having the right answer. It’s knowing you can figure it out.
- Hold grudges and they’ll hold you back. Or in the words of Michael Corleone, “It’s not personal, Sonny, it’s strictly business.”
- No matter what your career destination is, there is no direct path and the layovers take longer than you think.
- Speaking of women-owned businesses, Taryn Plumb of the Boston Business Journal tells a great story about the Daily Grommet of Lexington, Massachusetts. Founded in 2007, this company provides a platform for undiscovered products for the average person. Read about CEO and co-founder Jules Pieri’s recipe for success in ‘Citizen commerce’ for undiscovered products. You just know her business idea is a great one when she says she would “like to see more competition from other sites with a similar approach…We can’t help all the companies we see.”
- And lastly, does March Madness really have an impact on worker productivity? Count us among those who believe that friendly office banter about the trip to the final four does more to promote workplace camaraderie that what might be lost in worker productivity. Lance Haun writing for TLNT agrees in his timely article Its Madness Worrying About Workers and March Madness. John Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray and Christmas provides the numbers to back it up.
