I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.
In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.
The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.
In our house, mother’s day is every day. Father’s day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.
money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself
Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.
As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.
British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.
Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.
I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.
Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.
What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.
