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Carefrontation — The Ultimate Leadership Trait

Great Leadership By Dan

As a new project manager at Hewlett Packard I found that I interacted with a lot of brilliant people, many of who had been conditioned by higher learning institutions to compete rather than collaborate.

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Selling Medical Devices: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurial Breakthrough Success

Strategy Driven

You’ll need to read some journals to find out where medical trends are going and where they are currently to help you make an informed decision on what devices you may need contract manufacturing for. Find Suppliers.

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How to Manage a Perfectionist

Harvard Business Review

Managing a perfectionist can be challenging but it's not impossible. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and the author of Flying Without a Net. Accept that they may not be good managers as they are likely to demand too much of their people (see "hypercritical" and "bad at delegating" above).

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CEOs Need to Get Serious About Sales

Harvard Business Review

In writing the book Sales Growth , we've found that CEOs who put sales management at the heart of their agenda have captured astonishing growth — outstripping their peers by 50 to 80 percent in terms of revenue and profitability. With many companies trying to shake off the drag of a global recession, CEOs are eager to find growth.

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Founding a Hardware Start-Up Is Getting Easier

Harvard Business Review

Investors have long shied away from start-ups making gadgets such as wearable electronics, because of the challenges posed by manufacturing, distribution, inventory, and technical support. venture capitalists are taking a rosier view of hardware start-ups. Entrepreneurship'

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Don't Like Your Job? Change It (Without Quitting)

Harvard Business Review

It is often costly to career momentum and earnings as much as it is a boon," says Amy Wrzesniewski, an associate professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management and coauthor of " Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want." While the former might require approval from your manager, the latter often doesn't.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, companies like PCH International and Dragon Innovation are now available to manage contract manufacturing and otherwise “make manufacturing feel easy” to entrepreneurs or small companies, as noted by The Wall Street Journal’s Chris Mims last year.