Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: I manage a team of 12 in a public accounting firm in Austin, Texas. Although the lead-up to April 15th is our busiest time of the year, we also perform bookkeeping, consulting and auditing tasks throughout the year for our individual and corporate clients. This month, five members of our team will be on vacation at the same time. How do I keep the rest of my team productive while everyone else is taking time off?
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Welcome to the forty-seventh issue of CEE News!
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced an audacious goal. Before a joint session of Congress, Kennedy laid out a compelling vision: to put a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth by the end of the decade. It is estimated that on the night of that speech we knew only about 15% of what we needed to accomplish that goal. No U.S. astronaut had ever orbited the Earth, we had never walked in space, and we had never designed a lunar module. But America’s space race with the Soviets was intensifying, and our country was in ...
Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: I’m a new manager of a small team at a nonprofit. We are careful with our overhead spending which means that we’re chronically understaffed. I really struggle with delegation because it takes longer to teach people and get the quality results that I’m looking for. I’ve fallen into the “I’ll just do it myself” trap and can’t get my own work done. How do I dig myself out?
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A closer look at companies executing leadership excellence
Despite the Brotopia reputation of many Silicon Valley tech companies, not all startups in the San Francisco Bay Area operate like a frat house. In fact, Heap has earned the #1 spot on Glassdoor’s 2019 list of Best Places to Work in the small-to-medium sized business category.
Heap provides a data management technique that automatically captures every web, mobile, and cloud interaction—like clicks, submits, transactions, emails—and retroactively analyzes data without writing code. If you work in the data engineering ...
Welcome to the forty-sixth issue of CEE News!
Okay people. Summer is officially here. We’re in month six of 2019. If you haven’t already taken time off this year, it’s time to do so. Research shows that pushing away from work results in greater professional success and improves happiness at work and home.
What’s more, medical studies have found that overwork can lead to sleep deprivation, heart disease and increased risk of stroke. Whereas taking even a short vacation, can lead to measurable improvements.
In a 2017 study by Project: Time Off, 95% of people surveyed claimed ...
Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: My former mentor has offered me an opportunity to work for her company at a much higher level and a salary to match. I wasn’t expecting this, but was intrigued and felt that I had to tell my current boss. His response was to give me a counteroffer with a huge raise and a bonus plan. I love my job, but am worried that I’ve broken my bond of loyalty and will always be a suspected flight risk. I’m torn. Is taking a counteroffer the kiss of death for my career?
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A closer look at companies executing leadership excellence
Angie Leinert credits her career trajectory over what can be described as a “chili dog epiphany.” At age 19, Leinert realized that the best part of her job as a gas station attendant was eating a chili dog while on break. She knew that she wasn’t living up to her potential, and set about to find a better path. She started by serving six years as a linguist for the U.S. Air Force, earning an MBA, then joining BAE Systems as a project manager for technology systems for the U.S. intelligence service. In 2007, she set ...
Welcome to the forty-fifth issue of CEE News!
A budding entrepreneur wanted to launch an app. She asked me to review her preliminary investor pitch deck. She had done the market research, identified the need, forecasted the ROI, and built a sound business case. She clearly knew her stuff, but something critical was missing.
As we kept chatting, she shifted from talking about the data to talking about why she wanted to build the app. Her whole demeanor changed. Her eyes sparkled. She couldn’t stop smiling. When she thought about how the app could positively impact the world, she shifted ...