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The Challenge of Achieving Equity in the Future of Work
If you read the title of this article and thought about "equity" in terms of either pay or DEI initiatives, you're right. Yet there's another type of equity with which you might not be as familiar. And it underpins most modern workplace efforts at achieving parity,...
6 Strategies to Better Your Leadership Skills and Confidence
Being a real business leader is more than just echoing the voice of the majority. Most business leaders focus first on providing guidance to their team, but neglect self-leadership as equally important. In my experience, many entrepreneurs rely too much on the...
Are You a Corporate Athlete?
Ask Yourself: What Kind of Shape am I in? At first glance, the question may seem irrelevant to your success as a business owner or leader. After all, you do not have to be an olympian to run a business. Right? Well, maybe thinking like an athlete training for the next...
Uber, Lyft Face Senator Warren’s Ire Over Gig Worker Initiative
Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. and other gig employers caught the attention of Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren as they pursue a ballot initiative in her home state of Massachusetts. “Tech giants like Uber, Lyft, and Instacart are trying to buy themselves a new...
Meet the Director of Colorado’s New Office Created to Help Cannabis Entrepreneurs
In July, Colorado launched the Cannabis Business Office, a new division within the state Office of Economic Development and International Trade that's designed to support marijuana entrepreneurs from backgrounds affected by the War on Drugs. Created as part of a bill...
10 Free Online Courses on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have been buzzwords in business for years, with few results. That is, until the summer of 2020 when the killing of George Floyd and a pandemic awoke leaders to massive racial injustice. Companies have been hiring executives to...
Tech Companies Find Remote Work Easier to Begin than End
Technology companies that led the charge into remote work as the pandemic unfurled are confronting a new challenge: how, when and even whether they should bring long-isolated employees back to offices that have been designed for teamwork. "I thought this period of...
I’m a Freelancer Living Feast or Famine to Survive on US Healthcare
I never thought much about health insurance until I was T-boned at 50 mph. The wreck totaled my car. It deployed all of the airbags, burst all of the windows on the left side, and displaced the entire engine from the nose of my Honda CR-V. If the driver of the other...
