To leave your mark on the world and accomplish truly interesting things, do you need to be rich? Brilliant? Able to take a mental beating and keep on fighting? Not according to Steve Jobs. None of those factors will probably hurt your efforts to be exceptional, but according to the former Apple boss and general …

“Business guy seeking technical co-founder.” Spend any amount of time at meetups or startup events and you’re sure to meet more than a few entrepreneurs with big product ideas but no idea how to build them. And while there are more than a few successful companies with nontechnical founders, new research has shown they’re exceptions …

Now that 2018 is just around the corner, it may be time to ask that one glaring question to move you forward: What is your single biggest leadership challenge right now? This is not a hard exercise, but it does take some level of accountability and self-reflection. It should be obvious enough because it may …

As elders are always telling younger people, experience is the best teacher. But if you can take in a life lesson without putting yourself through difficulty–if you can benefit from someone else’s experience instead of your own–so much the better. Here are seven such lessons that it would be great if you didn’t have to learn it the hard way.  1. …

A CEO client shared with me last week that one of his longtime supervisors recently “lost it” at work, which is out of character. He is usually a happy, calm, reliable team member, but on this particular day, he “blew up” about his workload. My client talked with him but grew impatient. He told this employee …