Hard-Earned Business Lessons

Most of us have been fans of things at one point in our life or another. It may have been (and probably was) a sports team or it could have been a brand. It could have been a person, celebrity, or even just a company itself. We all have our experiences with fandom and I'll own that a lot of it can be very positive. But there are a couple of very negative points to fandom, particularly in the past ten years or so, that I feel must make us reject the call of fandom. First off, have you ever heard the saying of how you should never meet your heroes? That obviously wouldn't apply to every single human (side note: for the love of god people need to stop using "not all" arguments for so many damn reasons), but I do think that it applies to a lot of people who you might have grown up idolizing. "Ignorance is bliss" is another saying that I think carries a lot of truth and I don't mean this in the "what they don't know can't hurt them sense" (b...

General topics are all well and good but I have decided to make some posts more in the vein of management guides in an attempt to transfer some of my hard-won knowledge to anyone it may benefit. I don’t know everything and always strive to learn more so this isn’t me saying that I have all of the answers. This is me highlighting what I do know so hopefully some of you may skip these steps and get straight into good practices. I’ve made some of these mistakes before through ignorance but it doesn’t mean you have to!     I always like to say that how we start something influences how we finish with it. That is always the case be it with client relationships, practice for sports, or onboarding employees. With this thought in mind, the following aims to provide you a guide for how to onboard your employees as a manager. Presumably, you were involved in the hiring of this new employee or you had the ultimate say and approved them. Hopefully you had the chance to interview t...