Entrepreneur
Forward-thinking leaders reflect, think, and birth plans to ensure that the future workplace is better. They embrace a new leadership mindset.

Create a leadership mindset that encourages reflection, big-picture thinking and decisive plans of action.

Applied Strategy
As a CEO, one of your primary objectives is to align the company behind a set of ideas. Whether it’s purpose, values, vision, strategy, operating plan or budget, everyone should be pulling in the same direction.

Energy or capital that works against those ideas is counterproductive, disruptive and burdensome.

Forbes
Being a leader – in business and life - carries many burdens of command including the feeling of being pinned down when the best laid plans come under fire.

In military jargon, to be “pinned down” means you are trapped in a vulnerable position by enemy fire and unable to move to safety. Never a fun place to be; being pinned down is accompanied by massive amounts of stress, anxiety, and an overwhelming feeling of helplessness. Sound familiar?

Entrepreneur
Prior to COVID-19, around 5 percent of employed Americans worked from home or worked remotely. At the height of the pandemic’s stay-at-home orders, that percentage jumped to 62 percent.

If you’re an entrepreneur who suddenly finds yourself in charge of managing a remote team of employees, here are three areas to focus on to set your team up for success. 

Inc.
Now that we're in the middle of an economic downturn, there's a lot of discussion about how long it will take to begin a recovery. The good news is that we can look back at history and past downturns to get some clues about what might happen next in terms of an economic recovery.

When you look back, you can see that economic recessions in the past fell into three categories: a structural, cyclical, and event based.