Let me be the one to break this to you: this ain’t your momma’s job market. Your parents lived in a mailroom-to-boardroom job market. No more. Fast forward to today and U.S. workers hold their jobs for approximately 4.4 years on average. Those born in the...
Huddle up. You, as the company coach, need to carefully draft a team to carry out day-to-day plays. But you can’t draft only linemen, nor can you just choose receivers. In football, players depend on each other for success. Quarterbacks can't succeed without linemen blocking for...
Jamie Burke was confused. She was standing there dressed in heels and a bubblegum cocktail dress, among a sea of cargo shorts, fanny packs and tennis shoes. Her boyfriend Adam Brown had lured her to Nashville’s Cheekwood Botanical Gardens under false pretenses. Jamie was told she...
I’m the last of 10 kids. 8 of us run our own companies. Though our business success could be dumb luck, I like to think it’s the result of conversations we had around the dinner table after long days of hard work on our farm....
By night, Lisa Lynn Kotnik was living her dream, using her voice to entertain others on the New Orleans club circuit. By day, she was living a nightmare, fighting fibroids, ovarian cysts and a brain aneurysm. Five surgeries later, and her medical pains transformed into...
A gem tucked away in St. Louis’ historic Tower Grove, the Civil Life microbrewery certainly isn’t hidden. The Civil Life is a destination brewpub, offering good beers served by a welcoming and knowledgeable staff that is passionate about its brews. One of the main draws of...
In the same way supportive environments foster growth and excellence among co-workers, toxic ones promote lethargy and mediocrity. I can probably take a guess at which one you’d like to cultivate in your company, but the path to creating a constructive company culture isn’t always...
It’s been three years and countless experiences since Cole and Elizabeth Donelson’s 2013 wedding. A little over a year ago, they quit their Kansas City jobs and embarked on a year-long expedition across the country—and across the world—to see each of the National Park Service’s 59...