Business Best Practices

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• What didn't you get to include on your resume?

  

  Mike Spence

  

  What Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Other Top Execs Ask During Job Interviews

  TIME - Jacquelyn Smith / Business Insider

  Savvy CEOs and executives know that interview questions like, “What’s your biggest strength?” and, “What’s your biggest weakness?” aren’t as telling as they seem. That’s why they steer clear of these cliché queries and instead ask more meaningful ones. Many top execs have their one favorite go-to …

• Employees, employers, and stock holders benefit!

  

  Mike Spence

  

  Creating a Culture Where Employees Speak Up

  Harvard Business Review - Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  All of us aspire to work for leaders who truly value our input. We’re looking for a “speak-up culture”—the kind of workplace where we feel welcome and included, free to express our views and opinions, and confident that our ideas will be heard and recognized. But it’s not just employees who benefit …

• an brain the more you know about the human brain, the better you will be able to influence, persuade, and sell

  

  Mike Spence

  

  8 Psychological Insights Into the Brain That Will Improve Your Marketing

  Entrepreneur - Neil Patel

  The more you know about the human mind, the better you'll be able to sell. The better you understand the human mind, the better you'll be able to persuade customers to convert. And, if you think about it, marketing is really about applied psychology. What this means is that buyers act in certain ways …

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  Mike Spence

  

  9 Things That Make Good Employees Quit

  huffingtonpost.com - Dr. Travis Bradberry

  It's pretty incredible how often you hear managers complaining about their best employees leaving, and they really do have something to complain …

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  Mike Spence

  

  Should You Avoid or Embrace the Job Hopper?

  Entrepreneur - Andre Lavoie

  Here are three reasons to reconsider hiring the candidate with perhaps a little too much experience, and which candidates to avoid. Job hoppers are becoming more readily accepted in today's workforce. A CareerBuilder survey of 2,138 hiring managers and HR professionals, conducted last year, found …

• When it comes to lessons, it good to mirror best practices of those before you. Sometimes the best lesson is learned from the mistakes of others. what not to do. Learn from these CEO's mistakes

  

  Mike Spence

  

  The 10 Worst Entrepreneurs of 2015

  Entrepreneur - Steve Tobak

  If you're looking for best practices to follow, take a pass on learning from these folks. The biggest risk all of you face as you try to make it in the business world is that you buy into the massive hype of the entrepreneurial craze and think running a successful company is like falling off a log. …