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A leader can be a regular employee and a boss is not necessarily a leader. Leaders can emerge from any level within an organization, including regular employees. These individuals often certain leadership skills like empathy, communication skills, and problem-solving abilities. But both can overlap in an ideal scenario. A boss ...

There are three integral steps to convince your team that time tracking is important for the organization. Let us discuss briefly the following steps. 1. Write Down a Business-Oriented Explanation Write down a business-oriented explanation discussing the importance of time tracking. Billing customers is the most obvious one for most...

Working 60 hours a week is quite different as compared to 80 hours—the 20-hour difference is worth half of a regular workweek, so never neglect that fact. It is also quite different given what sort of work we’re talking about. For example, sales reps in small stores that get 50 customers a month can spend 90% of their working hours br...

No, it isn’t. Entrepreneurship is not for everyone. Entrepreneurship is about taking risks, solving new problems, working directly with customers, selling, marketing a solution, dealing with financial reports and legal cases, building a product that ends up being maintained by a small team turned into a company that keeps growing steadi...

I actually fell into that trap during my second development job, and it’s haunting me still. I’ll add some context as I’ve seen many, many developers after me believing that this is wrongful and should be corrected. I started as a regular Joe and soon became “promoted” to a mix of lead developers and business analysts. At som...

Ask behavioral questions to screen job applicants during your interviews. Most interviews revolve around these three categories: Standard questions: “Where do you see yourself in 5 years”, “What made you apply for us”, etc. “Random question of the day”: “If you were an animal, which one would it be?”, “What’s yo...

Rapid context switching between the global landscape and specific issues in hand can certainly help leaders manage teams at scale. Not all editors are great writers. Not every developer makes a great team leader or a technical project manager. Most people excel at just one thing—strategy or implementation. For instance, hiring a ...

Other than the Terminator reference in Bob’s answer, I’ll also refer to I, Robot with Will Smith. While both are somewhat Sci-Fi, they are not too far-fetched given what we know about artificial intelligence so far. One popular approach to Artificial intelligence is machine learning. It’s been widely used in practice now - from prov...

You may find some of the best people to hire are the people who stand out in a mix, if not most, of the areas below: Learning MindsetSoft SkillsTheir Reason To StayTeam SpiritSalary ExpectationsCulture Fit Are you looking for someone in-house or coming from the outside? Use the following framework to refine your recruitment strategy...

As an entrepreneur, outside of work, I: Constantly think of “time” as an expensive asset that should be valued, highlyAppreciate any creative endeavors aiming to disrupt a spaceValue progress, innovation, learning way more than “a fat paycheck”No longer obey the media-implied hypothetical virtues of large MNCsUnderstand that multi...