“be Better” Tips for Everyone

By Ryan Shea – Ladders The workplace can be a difficult area to navigate outside of your daily duties. For one, you are having to deal with a myriad of different personalities from the person who sits next to you to your boss who is a roller coaster of emotions. Then there are the times where you’ll have to…

By Michael Dinich – Ladders In 2021, the ‘Baby Boomers’ – folks born between 1946 and 1964 – might feel a little out of place in the current work culture. We have all heard the horror stories about millennials in the workplace who are known to be impatient. Then you have the Gen Z’s who, unlike their millennials counterparts,…

By S. Mitra Kalita – Fortune I decided to leave my senior-management job last year to launch my own startup. Once the initial shock wore off, my boss and I dived into the transition and handoffs of my teams, responsibilities, and unfinished projects. Then she asked for one last thing: a presentation to colleagues on mentoring. “That’s your…

Originally Published on Center for Creative Learning Leaders shape our nations, communities, and organizations. We need good leaders to help guide us and make the essential large-scale decisions that keep the world moving. Our society is usually quick to identify a bad leader, but do we know how to identify a good one? What would most people…

By Renee Warren – Entrepreneur No one is born as an entrepreneur. But it also doesn’t happen by chance, instead, they are driven to it. It’s all about having the compulsion to be a part of something that’s bigger than yourself and being willing to do whatever it takes to find that success. How “cut out” you…

By Michael Thompson – Ladders The future doesn’t belong to the smartest person in the room. Nor does it belong to the strongest or the fastest. The future belongs to the people who focus on what’s in front of them instead of being distracted by everything around them. This includes not only the work we…

By Nicolas Cole – Ladders Being an effective leader is not inherent in every person. Sure, some people are born with “leadership tendencies,” but leadership is a skill as much as anything else — and to be an effective leader, you need to put in the time and practice to effectively inspire and guide those…

By Leslie Hassler – Entrepreneur The impact of 2020 will stay with us for the rest of our lives. It marks a critical inflection point of before and after. It is a year that blindsided many small-business owners. We’ve seen new businesses birthed with success and others thriving amid chaos. We’ve seen neighborhood classics tragically lost, and others…

By Gwen Moran – Fast Company As 2021 arrives, looking back on the habits we resolved to break and adopt in late 2019 and at the beginning of 2020 is quaint . . . almost. Of course, the enormous challenges and changes the past months have brought weren’t anticipated when we wrote out our earnest lists of…