Inside the Psychology of Productivity
Burned out? Can’t get it all done? The problem might be in your head.
Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: “Inc. Magazine” | Subject: Productivity / Work Tips
Between Venus and Mars: 7 Traits of True Leaders
Control is a mirage. The most effective leaders right now–men and women–are those who embrace traits once considered feminine: Empathy. Vulnerability. Humility. Inclusiveness. Generosity. Balance. Patience.
Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: “Inc. Magazine” | Subjects: Leadership, Women in Business
100 Great Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Ask
Paul Graham, Jim Collins, Tony Hsieh, and other business leaders share the questions you should be asking if you want to improve your company.
Editor’s Note: for more insightful business questions, check out another site I run, mgmtquestions.com
Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: “Inc. Magazine” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Management
Thoroughly Counterintuitive Approach to Leading
Is boring suddenly good…and inspirational bad? Stanford professor Bob Sutton explains what he’s learned from hundreds of conversations with Silicon Valley’s brightest stars.
Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Leigh Buchanan, Robert I. Sutton | Source: “Inc. Magazine” | Subject: Leadership
We Will Be the Best-Run Business in America
Larry Potterfield, founder of the shooting-supply company MidwayUSA, is obsessed with management excellence: quantifying it, developing systems to produce it, and spreading it far and wide.
Content: Case Study | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: “Inc. Magazine” | Subject: Best Practices | Company: MidwayUSA
What If Your Gut Is (Gasp!) Wrong?
Chip and Dan Heath, authors of Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, on how to make better executive decisions.
Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: “Inc. Magazine” | Subject: Personal Development
13 Ways of Looking at a Leader
Want to be a better leader? Or find management inspiration, at least? Here you can learn from a baker’s dozen of the most prevalent types.
Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: “Inc. Magazine” | Subject: Leadership
The 10 Best Entrepreneurship Courses of 2011
University courses in entrepreneurship are better—more useful, more real, more likely to produce actual companies—than they have ever been. Here are 10 we’d love to take.
Editor’s Note: I am not sure how many of these are MBA courses vs. undergraduate
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: “Inc. Magazine” | Subject: MBA Program Rankings
Saras Sarasvathy, Leigh Buchanan
Master entrepreneurs rely on… effectual reasoning. Brilliant improvisers, the entrepreneurs don’t start out with concrete goals. Instead, they constantly assess how to use their personal strengths and whatever resources they have at hand to develop goals on the fly, while creatively reacting to contingencies. By contrast, [successful] corporate executives… use causal reasoning. They set a goal and diligently seek the best ways to achieve it. … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Authors: Leigh Buchanan, Saras Sarasvathy | Source: “Inc. Magazine” | Subject: Entrepreneurship
How Great Entrepreneurs Think
What distinguishes great entrepreneurs? Discussions of entrepreneurial psychology typically focus on creativity, tolerance for risk, and the desire for achievement—enviable traits that, unfortunately, are not very teachable. So Saras Sarasvathy, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, set out to determine how expert entrepreneurs think, with the goal of transferring that knowledge to aspiring founders. While still a graduate student at … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: “Inc. Magazine” | Subject: Entrepreneurship
The Art and Business of Motivational Speaking
If the podium is calling your name, you should get to know Josh Shipp, a one-man school in the art and business of motivational speaking.
Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: “Inc. Magazine” | Subject: Industry Specific
How to Build a Beautiful Company
Employing open-book management and leadership by consensus, the Sky Factory’s Bill Witherspoon has set out to create the perfect business.
Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: “Inc. Magazine” | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Leadership: Armed With Data
How the military can help you learn from your mistakes.
Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: “Inc. Magazine” | Subjects: Leadership, Management
The Impostor Syndrome
Why do so many successful entrepreneurs feel like fakes?
Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: “Inc. Magazine” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior
How to Take Risks in a Time of Anxiety
In a changing environment where even everyday activities are filled with risk, sometimes it’s difficult to see that, when it comes to business, risk is neither bad nor the enemy.
Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: “Inc. Magazine” | Subjects: Management, Risk Management