Martin Zwilling

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3466 )

• 5 Ways To Minimize Employee Negativity In Your Office

  

  Throughout my career in small companies and large, I’ve always been appalled by the number of people who have a negative attitude or complain all the time. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 5 Strategies For Building Winning People Connections

  

  In the entrepreneur world, it’s still a popular misconception that the “idea” is everything. Even though investors, like myself, have long made it clear that... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Strategies To Prepare For Global Market Challenges

  

  New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 3 Elements Of Business Planning Drive Future Success

  

  Your business can’t be all things to all people, and excel at anything. Every entrepreneur and every business needs a strategy to keep them focused. Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Signals That You Can Be A Trusted Business Leader

  

  Every entrepreneur and business leader believes that he or she has the full trust of their team and their customers, and in fact most do in the beginning. Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Strategies To Make You A Business Leader Role Model

  

  We are living in a new generation of business, where customers drive the experience, and highly engaged employees are required to keep up with customer... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• How To Check Your Ethics Before A Business Decision

  

  Most business leaders I know clearly understand the difference between legal and illegal activities, but often are not so clear on the line between ethical and... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Lessons For Business Leaders From Military Training

  

  I learned some good lessons along these lines from the classic book “The Way of the SEAL,” by Mark Divine. He spent many years with the SEALs, but has since... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• If These Quotes Could Be You, Don’t Try A New Startup

  

  Some people are not cut out to be entrepreneurs. This is a good thing, or the business world would be chaos, with everyone trying to do their own thing. So... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 7 Characteristics Of People Who Drive Global Change

  

  By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services,... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• How To Manage Online Reviews and Business Reputation

  

  Since most small business owners are justifiably proud of the service they deliver, they don’t even anticipate a negative online review or threat to their... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Great Entrepreneurs Rush To Embrace The Right Risks

  

  Outside of dreams, there is no real business opportunity without risk. Serious entrepreneurs know that, but too many “wannabes” still fall for that elusive... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Base Your New Venture On These New Technology Trends

  

  A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. I... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Ways The Business Social Media Players Are Changing

  

  Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 6 Key Ideas For Moving Your Business Up Another Level

  

  A theme I often hear from the entrepreneurs and startups I advise is that once they see that first surge of traction from customers, they can relax and enjoy... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• New Venture Equity As Compensation Is A Long-Term Bet

  Wouldn’t you like to be one of the lucky people who joined Google and Facebook when these were startups, and now be a multi-millionaire or better? Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• We Need Entrepreneurs Who Think Like Revolutionaries

  

  The realm of an entrepreneur is all about change, but in my experience as a mentor to business founders, I hear too much about incremental change, and not enoug... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Office Relationships Are Key, But Affairs Are Trouble

  

  We all have to communicate and collaborate with other people at work, but most of us start out instinctively trying to maintain an emotional distance from other... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 10 Symptoms Of An Entrepreneur Who Is Nearly Broken

  

  If an entrepreneur doesn’t find themselves in over their head at least 20% of the time, they are probably not pushing the limits, not taking enough risk, and... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER

• 8 Change Triggers Every Entrepreneur Must Spot Early

  

  No business or startup wants to be the next Myspace, or even the next RIM (BlackBerry), where changes in the marketplace were subtle. Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER