Management & Leadership

Apr 30, 2015

Is great leadership a requirement?

Let’s not assume that great leaders are necessary for success! Success in business requires a number of ingredients and if you get some of them right, you can make progress. I like to cook and occasionally I produce something that is pretty good, maybe even darn good, just not as good as it could...

Apr 30, 2015

Empowering authentic community engagement

If you’re still debating the importance of community stewardship as a value proposition, the overwhelming research confirms a surprising, additional audience – employees. While generating goodwill and positive solutions, community engagement also is improving employee recruitment, retention and loyalty.  And for businesses asking how to attract and retain the millennial generation, the answer is simple: […][...]

Apr 28, 2015

Five ways to maximize confidence…

Enhancing general self-confidence involves learning to strengthen the confident part of the brain (the confident neural network) while weakening the fearful part of the brain (the fearful neural network). This is the long-term foundation of greater self-confidence. In addition to building a strong...

Apr 24, 2015

Lessons from a $15 million verdict

A Colorado federal jury reportedly awarded $15 million recently to 11 workers who claimed they had been subject to workplace harassment, discrimination and retaliation because of their race and national origin. What can you learn from this significant discrimination verdict? Even if the verdict is...

Apr 24, 2015

Best of CoBiz: Only good managers get to manage

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from business performance improvement expert Larry Valant’s book, Stop Breaking These Rules! 100 Hard-Hitting Truths for Business Integrity and Performance. Only good managers get to manage. In most organizations good managers are rare. The percentage of really good managers (if all the managers in all the companies in America […]

Apr 23, 2015

Success from a shoestring

In 1997, a Steamboat Springs-based snowboarder named Gary Hammerslag had one of those insights that makes consumers lives’ easier and entrepreneurs wealthy. Hammerslag saw something that wasn’t there, a niche nobody had noticed.

Apr 22, 2015

Best of CoBiz: Five great ways to keep employees engaged

People's engagement with work is directly affected by their experience within their organization. In other words, if you are the manager, you are responsible for creating an engaging work climate. If you don't want turnover to be the next drain on your budget, keep these tips in mind:

Apr 21, 2015

Four numbers that equal success

In our business lives, the start of a new fiscal year causes us to look ahead to what we want to accomplish. But I don’t believe you have to wait until Jan. 1 to set resolutions that will change your personal or professional path.

Apr 21, 2015

Three tips to spur innovation

Economists and business leaders acknowledge that openness to disruption is key to creative innovation, but many companies struggle with it. To get a better understanding of how a company can spur creativity, we talked with Michel Laprise, director of KURIOS - Cabinet of Curiosities, Cirque du Sole...

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Apr 17, 2015

Stay nimble to nurture success

Questions about experience are common when a business is on the hunt for a potential agency or firm. ‘How many other health care companies have you worked with?’ ‘How many finance-related companies?’ For many, prior experience is what proves competence. But that mentality can work to the detriment...

Apr 15, 2015

How to put more women in leadership

Lakshmi Puri recently told the United Nations that gender equality is “humanity’s biggest project.” In the U.S., Women comprise about 47 percent of the total workforce but hold only 14 percent of senior executive positions and 17 percent of board seats. It is important to maintain focus on the ess...

Apr 14, 2015

The evolution of the mentor

When we started Techstars in 2006, the concept of a mentor was very fuzzy. There were many people who called themselves “advisors” to startups, including the entire pantheon of service providers. While the word mentor existed, it was usually a 1:1 relationship, where an individual had a “mentor”....