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This question stemmed from the EntreLeadership Podcast: I’m an employee in a firm of 25 and want to share information about culture and values with my boss and managers. Other CPAs are urging me to just get out and start on my own. I don’t want to quit (yet) but want to influence this company

Here is an excellent guest post by Lance Cashion. Lance is a life and health insurance broker and financial advisor from Fort Worth, Texas, specializing in wealth preservation, liquidity retention and distribution. He attended EntreLeadership Master Series in Cancun, Mexico. You can follow him on Twitter or Facebook. You can guest post, as well! Read

Here’s a question Charlie sent in after listening to the EntreLeadership Podcast: I’m a one-person e-commerce company working from home. I feel like I could keep two or three people busy full-time, but I don’t have enough extra money to hire even one person part-time.  I have so many ideas on how to expand my business,

I believe it all starts with you defining your core values. If you don’t know what those are to begin with, you have no clue what you’re looking for in the interview. Without them, only talent really matters. If you want someone who doesn’t gossip, or someone who has integrity, then you have a place

While there are many leadership styles, I believe the only type of leadership that ultimately works is servant leadership. Being a dictator, or an unapproachable person, doesn’t get people to follow you. In fact, if you think you’re leading people, turn around. If nobody’s there, you’re not a leader. I recently received a great example

Not only is this a great question from Kent, but it’s something that I, and so many others, have struggled with. As an entrepreneur, you want to accomplish as much as you possibly can. There’s a voice inside of you that constantly wants to grow and build more of what you already have. We believe

Thanks to Joel Fortner, one of my top commenters, for reminding me that it’s been a year since I started blogging. In fact, it all started with Cologne – pleasure or pain? I had been wondering for a long time if I could be a writer. So after a lunch with an acquaintance, I decided

Running a business for 10 years made me both a risk taker and very cautious. Caution usually comes cemented in you when you start running a business, but becomes more refined as your intuition grows. Well, at least for most people. The key is understanding that sometimes you just might be a little too cautious.

I always find it interesting when people complain about others, and then do the same exact thing. After I was saved, I read through the Bible for a year. For the first time, I understood some of it. Before that, it was just Greek to me. As I went through Exodus, I found myself saying

Driving into work yesterday, I came up to a stoplight next to a European family cargo van. You know, one of those funny-looking boxy things. The van caught my eye because it stuck out in a sea of Chevys, Fords, and Yugos. OK, I didn’t actually see a Yugo. While the van was stunning, what