If your employees don't work from home, you're missing out on tons of benefits. Guidelines to make a work-from-home program work. recently had a conversation with some fellow small business owners and was surprised to learn that many of them don't allow employees to telecommute. I'm not the only one. Set guidelines and expectations. Quantify. MORE >>

Not using any structured approach for getting traction is one of the most common traction mistakes , and yet there are simply not many traction frameworks out there to help you make sense of the process. In our upcoming Traction Book , Justin and I present the Bullseye Framework for getting traction. You can make educated guesses (and you should!), MORE >>

When you go from one task to the next--all day long--your mind constantly races to catch up. Hit the reset button with this underrated trick. Andy Puddicombe is a former Buddhist monk and co-founder of Headspace , an entrepreneurial venture designed to demystify meditation and make it easily accessible to all audiences. ” MORE >>

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. He’s back to Bogota, Colombia this week for round two. —– Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora! Other than the NSF Innovation-Corps program in the U.S., program.  MORE >>

People start businesses for any number of reasons, almost all of which are wrong. There is only one right reason, and you already know it. question from an aspiring entrepreneur: I am planning to start a business, but to be honest, I wonder if I really would be better off remaining an employee. So you want to be an entrepreneur? Don't do it. Right. MORE >>