Spotify for Business is quickly becoming a new business term crucial for savvy entrepreneurs, businesses, professionals and more. Music is a language spoken universally and understood across all ages and generations. Any business that uses music as a marketing tool must ask this question: How does the average business owner or entrepreneur put its finger […]
Decision Making Skills: The Secret Tool of Your Staff
An organization that centralizes decision making to a tight select group of senior individuals is missing a significant opportunity to utilize the leadership and intellectual resources of its employees. Failing to empower your staff to make decisions increases turnover, limits creativity, and innovation lowers productivity and stifles leadership development. Stewardship is one of the qualities […]
Facts vs Potential: What Is Rapid Prototyping?
The gap between inspirational, creative design and comprehension is not always easily bridged when speaking to coworkers, managers or potential customers. You may fully understand what you’re saying. But without a prototype explaining your idea others may be left adrift. All too often, designers face the difficulty of trying to relate to their coworkers, management […]
What Is Agile Development? Enriching Your Business in 5 Steps
Some of the principles of Agile Development have been around since the 1950’s. But it has only been in the last 15 years that true Agile Development has been used in software development. You may have heard of it and you may wonder: what is Agile Development? Once a tool limited only to software development, […]
Strengths Based Leadership: How Can a Theory Help Your Business?
Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. The question is how best to handle them in business. Because it is practically human nature to dwell on the negative, many people struggle to improve their flaws. But the concept of strengths based leadership takes a slightly different approach. Focusing too much on weaknesses is likely to leave an […]