HOW TO MOTIVATE STAFF AND CREATE A HIGH-PERFORMANCE CULTURE WITHOUT EXPENSIVE INCENTIVES A business owner once complained to me about his employees. He had increased salaries, been generous with bonuses...

Five Conversations CEOs Must Have With Their Teams Before End of Year September has a way of changing the mood in a business. The year is not over, but suddenly...

Should You Borrow More Money or Reduce Your Business Size? A Decision Framework for Struggling Businesses There is a particular pressure that only a business owner understands. A few years...

PROFITABLE AND BROKE: The Start-up Paradox Nobody Warns You About You closed a huge deal last month. Revenue is up 40% over last year’s. Your team is celebrating. And yet,...

Five Books Every African Entrepreneur Should Read Before the Year Ends "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies." George R.R. Martin may have been writing about fiction, but...

MID-YEAR REVIEW: How Entrepreneurs Can Recover a Difficult Year I have always been an advocate of a thorough mid-year business review. In six months, the company has had enough time...

The New Workplace: How Employers Can Transition from On-Site Work to Remote or Hybrid Systems Without Losing Productivity For decades, many employers believed serious work only happened within the four...

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SOCIAL MEDIA WITH PURPOSE: How to Create Content that Converts There was a time when social media was just a place to catch up with friends, post pictures, and share...