The biggest challenge for startups and early stage businesses is overcoming the mindset that you don’t need to consider branding right away. The truth is you are building your brand from the moment it’s born,…
What Kendrick Lamar Teaches Leaders
Hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar rocked the world of high culture to its foundations when he won the Pulitzer Prize for music for his album DAMN., becoming the first non-classical, non-jazz artist to…
5 Personality Traits That Could Make Your Company a Unicorn
Difficult personalities are nothing new among high-flying entrepreneurs and executives. But if managed wisely, even wildly intense people can be tremendous assets to an organization. Often, it’s the folks with outsized egos or hair-trigger tempers who prove…
Why Entrepreneurs Need a Side Hustle
Whether you’re uninspired, underpaid, or just downright unhappy, having a job you don’t love is incredibly disheartening. Luckily, a side hustle offers relief from the dullness of your day job and can be…
How to Find Purpose in Your Career
Having a deeper sense of purpose is the greatest of all human needs. We all want our lives to have meaning and to feel like what we are doing is what we…
If I Were 22 : 12 Tips for Young Talent
As part of the Inc. GrowCo event, we went to the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. It also happened to be the week before graduation. As I walked the halls of the center, I thought about all the things I’ve learned over the years as an entrepreneur and realized I had a good bit of knowledge to share.