Boundaries help us reclaim our own lives. Boundaries help us define what we want in our space, and what we don’t want.

A few metrics I like to consider when underwriting a deal are the 1 percent rule, cap rate, cash-on-cash return, and appreciation potential.

Silence makes artists, inventors, and entrepreneurs observers of their own thoughts and feelings. With calm minds, we create ideas of value.

You are creating visible results in Stage 3 of your career of growth, and you are perhaps the most important piece of the company. What makes this stage so difficult is that rarely do departments agree or see the world the same way. You are in a constant state of refining and renegotiating the deliverables. It follows that the one skill you can’t live without is being comfortable with conflict.

We decided that a purpose was preferable to a mission. Purpose is a forever cause that can permeate everything from the business to the brand to the culture. Brooks’s purpose would be evident at our core, and we could clearly communicate it to the world as our reason for being—our North Star.

HarperCollins Leadership has joined forces with BookClub, a learning platform built for teams that up-levels their organization’s performance. HCL and BookClub will work together to develop custom learning solutions that address the unique needs of corporate, nonprofit, small business, and other teams, such as: Studies show that most learning and development initiatives fall short because […]

There are five meetings that will grow your small business:
There are other meetings, of course, but, as you grow, if you implement the All-Staff, Leadership, Department Stand-up, Personal Priority Speed Check, and Quarterly Performance Review meetings

When you’re trying to know it all and do it all, you’re bound to make mistakes. And that’s okay. You can’t be afraid to get things wrong sometimes; it’s the only way to learn how to do things correctly.

From Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World  by George Serafeim  Not long ago, a former student asked my advice about a business decision. He had experienced a significant amount of career success in the handful of years since graduating from Harvard Business School. He was leading a business unit for a […]

Let’s not forget that a side hustle is fully reliant on the one doing the hard work. It’s not scalable. It does not have unlimited potential earnings.