Want better teamwork and greater success? Make sure your employees are following these easy guidelines. Everybody agrees that "teamwork" is crucial to business success--but few people bother define what "teamwork" really is. Based on that conversation, here are the seven characteristics of truly extraordinary teams: 1. Like this post? MORE >>

Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of a little company called Apple Inc., who passed away from cancer in October 2011, was a jerk. But really, who among us isn’t at least occasionally unreasonable, petty, and petulant for a few minutes out of every workday? That trauma? Well, OK. Don’t let money ruin your life. MORE >>

There is a tremendously important role for community colleges in educating a new generation of entrepreneurs, and on some campuses already there are great examples of excellence in classroom learning for current and future founders. More on this in future posts. The initiative is called Innovation Fund America. MORE >>

Last night Amy and I watched the first episode of Aaron Sorkin’s new TV show The Newsroom. It started out strong but by about 30 minutes in I said to Amy “this isn’t going to last for us – this is Sports Night, but less interesting.” I’ll explain in a bit, but first some play by play analysis (to mix metaphors). MORE >>

I was thinking about network effects, when every additional user you gain makes your entire service more valuable to everyone involved (increasing customer lock-in and widening the moat new competitors must cross to attack you). It led me to these 8 business model patterns. Some network effect businesses use most of them. Others use just one or two. MORE >>