The Boss of You

This smart, simple Venn diagram has been making the rounds on Twitter, and I like the way it neatly summarizes some great business advice. The creator, Bud Caddell, comes from a service firm perspective, but I think this stuff applies equally well to product-based businesses.
I was particularly delighted to read Caddell’s thoughts about the “Learn [...]

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The economic woes we’re facing right now feel awfully familiar.
See, Emira and I started our business in February 2000; by the end of that summer, our industry (and in fact all things web-related) had experienced the first big dot-com crash. Our friends and family wondered at times if we’d hitched our horses to the wrong [...]

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So, I’ve been kinda quiet around here of late. My schedule got full and writing blog posts kept falling to the bottom of my to-do list — not because I don’t love writing, or because I don’t have a ton of ideas, but because it got to that point where it just felt like one [...]

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I’ve personally been really hesitant to comment too much on the economic downturn and its impact on small business. On the one hand, I feel very strongly that the kind of business we have always advocated for — sustainable growth, measured risk and frameworks for measures of success that don’t focus exclusively on ballooning profits [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, we had the great pleasure of talking with Paula Gregorowicz (of the Paula G. Company) for her “Comfortable in Your Own Skin” podcast, and she’s just posted the interview on her blog. For the first couple of minutes, you can tell we’re trying to sort out who’s speaking when (Emira [...]

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I stumbled across a great blog today while following up on Boss of You mentions around the blogosphere: Sweet Sassafras. (Great name, no?) And okay, it feels a little self-serving to link there, given that the most recent post at the moment recommends our book (thanks, Sarai!) — but let’s skip right past that and [...]

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This video, produced by the ever so talented folks at Free Range, captures the message of small and sustainable in business can be a beautiful perfectly (or as a Twitter friend said it perfectly “illustrates the classic parable of the fisherman and the MBA”):

The video is a teaser/promo for Mark Albion’s excellent book More Than [...]

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Since Alex had a post up at the Harvard Business Blog, I’ve found myself checking in there regularly for what is, not to surprisingly, great thoughts on business. And by “great thoughts” I mean ideas and analysis around entrepreneurship, leadership and business that apply to small business, innovative business and well generally the kind of [...]

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A number of different influences have inspired me to write more here about HR for the self-employed. Partly it’s that that’s where my head is at a lot these days — we’re hiring & managing more employees at Raised Eyebrow than ever before, and it’s got me thinking about what work I really, truly want [...]

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I got sucked into the New York Times’ wage gap graph because of the title: “Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller?” Turns out there isn’t room on the page for a meaningful answer to that question, but the infographic itself is very, very interesting.
As usual, the NYT designers have done a great job of displaying complex [...]

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