8 Small Businesses With Memorable Names

Late last year America’s Best Companies shared tips on naming a business.  At the top of their list was to make it "memorable, quirky, and unique."

Much more recently (on Tuesday) I saw this post from Lennie Rose on her blog for Big Ooga, a Chicago area resource for finding and connecting with accomplished entrepreneurs, in [...]

Extended: Early Bird Rate for October Inc. Leadership Conference

Yesterday in an email to our subscribers, and recently on this blog, I urged readers to register by August 31 for Inc.’s October 27-29 Leadership Conference in Denver so they can attend at the early bird rate, which is $300 less than the conference rate.

Well, three things have changed:

Inc. has a new website for their [...]

University of Iowa Prof: Don’t Underestimate Leadership’s Role in Business Success or Failure

Given this blog’s focus on how employee retention tips and other people practices lead to a more productive workplace culture – and how leadership strategies such as succession planning reduce dependency of the business on key people if they leave or are otherwise taken out of the equation – a reader might conclude that decisions [...]

Nothing ‘Relaxed’ About Unlimited Vacations Management Approach

SmartBrief on Leadership was one of the sources I noticed that touched upon what appears to be a relatively new employee engagement approach: allowing workers to take unlimited paid vacations.  Recently they linked to this NPR article on the trend.
But then last week they raised the topic again; linking to this article by Chris Grams, [...]

My Top 5 Things to NOT Do When Business Blogging

I had a "wow" moment yesterday when I was reviewing my post history in our Compendium software and realized today’s post will be our 900th.  900 blog posts in roughly 800 days (our blog has been running since June 4, 2008) – that works out to about one new post per day on employee engagement [...]

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