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As leaders we discuss holding space for our team. We all recognize that we need to give them time and space to succeed, for their...

Life and leadership is a contact sport.

Business success, especially entrepreneurial success, is about finding the right fit for your work, while also finding a harmony with everything else that affects your work. Business success is like relationship success.

Have you ever nearly tripped over a milestone or a goal because you were focused on the bigger prize?

To scale a business, we need to care about others more than we care about ourselves. The challenge is that we need to care about...

In this week’s Leading Behind the Scenes, Marlou Hermsen makes the case (without laughing) that those who wish for a better world should seek to, “CHANGE the world without being a smug twat.”

Resilience is not an accident. It doesn't arrive at the moment of need by default. The reality is that resilience is there when we need...

Are you a victim of squirrel syndrome? Based on some fairly unscientific research, about 2 in 3 entrepreneurs are burdened by this...

If you're a Rebel, Rule-Breaker and Renegade this is for you ... If you're the kind of person that likes to follow along with all the...

The business math equation S (sales) - E (expenses) = P (profit) has been widely accepted for years. However, entrepreneur and author...

Each week I'll post a short podcast, usually between 3 to 5 minutes long, just talking about how to apply the Paper Napkin Wisdom 5 Step...

Is there a formula for success? This week’s Paper Napkin Wisdom guest, Geoff Smart - CEO of lead consulting firm ghSMART - proposes just...

W eek 2 is off and running and I found it so valuable to go through the exercise here. Before I do share what I thought, let me give you...

Here we go! I promised in my goals that I would actually "do" the book out in the open this year. This means that each week I will post...

Patrick Gentempo is the proverbial “man of many hats.”  The biography on his website details many of those hats – from National Karate...

I remember having my mind rocked a few years ago while attending an elite entrepreneurs-only education program at MIT and Verne Harnish...

Kirk Dando helped to grow a business to more than a billion in sales, and is a leadership and growth expert who has been working to...

Jeffrey Feldberg is a serial entrepreneur with a simple yet inspirational goal: he wants to be someone’s miracle. This goal is more than...

Jane Roos is a social entrepreneur, fundraiser extraordinaire and general dynamo. She has helped countless Canadian athletes make their...

Shep Hyken  is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, a grass roots entrepreneur, and a speaker. He’s a busy guy...