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The Truth About Sleep & Productivity
Working overtime doesn’t increase your output. It makes you stupid. Arianna Huffington talks often about how the key to her productivity is sleep. It’s a smart suggestion, not least because so many of us still imagine that the more we work, the more productive we are. For over a hundred years or more, this has [...]
How Carol’s Daughter Founder Lisa Price Juggles It All
With three children and a beauty business vying for her attention, what’s Lisa Price’s trick? A supportive spouse, and cutting herself some slack. “Do it when it matters,” she says. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/tim-rice/lisa-price-carols-daughter-founder-time-management.html
Danger! Don’t Hire People Just Like You
Commonalities may be comfortable, but they also create blind spots. You want lieutenants who provoke feuds and dissent. Couples tend to look like each other. Some people seem to look a lot like their pets. Such observations are a common source of jokes and jibes but inside them lie an important truth: Our brains prefer [...]
Even Odds? Here’s How to Choose
Making a decision with imperfect information is a challenge. The rule of the one-way street might be the tie breaker you’re looking for. Ever find your team debating a decision in which there are two very different yet justifiable solutions to a given problem? We all have. Very often these are the most contentious and [...]
What’s Going On In Your Customer’s Head?
Use these nine techniques to account for how your customer’s brain could be wired, and seal the deal. Since you’re a reader of Inc., I think it’s safe to assume that you and I have something in common: We both need to sell. You probably have your favorite sales techniques, and heaven knows there are [...]
16 Cool Coworking Spaces
They’re full of start-up geeks like you and way cooler than any office you could afford to lease. Ready to get out of the basement and into a real office? Before you strike out on your own and get locked into a lease, consider a coworking space. They’re more affordable, full of start-up geeks like [...]
Bad Culture Impacts All Organizations
If even institutions with a higher “calling”like those in healthcare, education, and religionare bad at engaging employees, what can you do about it? Bad culture impacts industries with a calling, too, like healthcare, education, and places of worship. If it can happen there, what kind of impact could it have on you? When it comes [...]
My Worst and Best Board Meetings
Conflict can be helpful at an advisor meeting. What’s more important? Disciplined use of time. The last article of a four-part series on boards. Working on a series of recent articles about advisory and company boards brought back memories of my worst and best board meetings. These are, of course, the ones from which I [...]
3 Tactics to Become a Better Salesperson
The secret to successful selling? Don’t sell right away. If you’re in a position to “sell” at your company (and no matter what you do for your company, you should be), then you know it’s not always easy to get the ear of the prospect you’re trying to sell to. The worst thing you can [...]
