James Kassouf’s Blog
Productivity Tips for Small Businesses
Do you find yourself constantly distracted at work? Are the challenges of running a small business limiting your productivity? The following tips will help you get back on track and make the most of your day to day routine. Identify, Prioritize, and Delegate Start...
Corporate Skills to Take into Entrepreneurship
If you’re leaving the corporate life to venture into entrepreneurship, you may think the skills you’ve learned during your corporate experience are no longer applicable. Entrepreneurship is a different field entirely and requires a whole new set of skills. While that...
Four Types of Employees your Small Business Needs
Small businesses are often trying to accomplish the same tasks and meet the same goals as larger businesses, but have to do so with way fewer people. Because of this, small businesses need to be staffed with the most efficient employees to ensure those goals are met....
Essential Time Management Skills for Entrepreneurs
It’s commonly said that there isn’t enough time in the day. This sentiment is especially true for entrepreneurs. With so much that needs to be accomplished, it can be challenging to find the time to fit everything in. In order to do so, you need to have excellent time...
How to Avoid Burnout as an Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurs are known for having little work-life balance. Pursuing your dreams and trying to get your business off the ground takes a lot of work. Because of this, it’s very common for entrepreneurs to experience burnout. To avoid that, here are four important...
Tips for Becoming a Better Leader
Good leadership produces good employees and strong results. If you’re just stepping into a leadership role, or you’ve been one for a while, it’s important to know how to lead your employees in a way that will result in the best results for everyone. Understand...
Four Disciplines to be a Great CEO
Being a great CEO requires you to be very disciplined. Without discipline, competing ideas, deadlines, priorities and other issues can hold back your organization from scaling up. When you’re not performing at your highest level, your team and your company pay the...
Daily Habits of Good Leaders
In both business and life, being a good leader can help you reach your goals and realize your dreams. However, you need to develop the right habits. Otherwise, you might turn to bad patterns that betray your desire to lead. Here are the daily practices all good...
Management versus Leadership: What’s the Difference?
Management and leadership. The two words are thrown around daily in any business setting. But, what’s the difference between the two? Is there a difference? While it may seem like the two words are interchangeable, management is not leadership, and a good manager...
Where Leadership Starts
Great leaders possess many skills: strong communication, empathy, tenacity, the list can go on and on. But, great leadership starts with self-awareness. Unfortunately, it’s a skill in short supply. In a worldwide study of 17,000 individuals, only 19 percent of women...