A friend of mine was recently chatting with a group of other entrepreneurs about their struggles in start-up businesses. There were a lot of common themes like managing multiple clients, drumming up a new business, what business management products to buy and dealing...

Recently I commiserated with a friend whose boss, the CEO of a large organization, had charged her with learning to do fundraising. That word alone makes some people cringe, doesn’t it?   My friend protested to the CEO, coming up with every excuse to not accept the...

Warren Buffet once said, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.” Benjamin Franklin said, “It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.” In...