Axcient

By Eric Quach When you work for a rapid-growth technology company, you’re living in a fast-paced working world. As more people see value in your product, and for the industry itself, demand rises. It becomes even more critical to deliver top-tier products. It is imperative to challenge yourself to broaden and hone your skill-set in [...]

What’s a Business Experience Worth to You? I got a haircut yesterday. It cost me $35, plus tip – a price that, until recently, I would have never paid.  But this time I paid it. And the next time I need a fresh trim, I’ll pay it again. Don’t worry, you read the headline right. [...]

As originally published by MSPmentor on July 6, 2012. Your inbox. Just the mention of it might give you pangs of stress. The technology that revolutionized business communication less than two decades ago is now commonly a burden or, at best, a distraction. As a managed service provider (MSP), of course you want to respond [...]

Today we are constantly bombarded with information. It’s literally at our fingertips with smartphones, tablets, e-readers, and laptops. And maybe it’s just me, but I recently noticed a lot more self-help and advice articles circulating the web.

By Eric Quach I am sure the majority of us, whether writers or not, are familiar with the ever impeding plight known as writer’s block. We have all been called upon to write something in our lives, whether it be a strenuous term paper or just a succinct cover letter. A lot of these situations [...]

This blog is third in the series “Leading for Success.” Also see How to Motivate Your Team and How to Build Team Chemistry. Understanding how we’re going to be measured and how success in one’s job or department will be defined is important to everyone. And yet, selecting those critical measurements to drive performance and [...]

“Trust me.” We’ve all said it. Trust is one of the most coveted and critical aspects of all relationships, personal and business. Think about it – when you ask someone to trust you, you’re asking for their complete confidence and surety in what you say and do. It’s the handshake of handshakes… the promise of [...]

(With apologies to Abraham Maslow) One of the most interesting elements of working as a senior executive in a startup company is that such careers are typically punctuated with long periods of time off.  This is particularly true of successful exits, which provide the luxury of time off to think about the next great invention. [...]

The same year my mom started singing the famous line of Helen Reddy’s 1975 hit, “I am woman, I am strong, if I have to, I can do anything,” I was learning my first words. Surely, I was influenced by my mom’s struggle to find her footing as a career woman and as a mother. [...]

Over the past month or so I’ve come across a number of articles that derive lessons from iconic movies and apply them to today’s business world.  The first of these I read, “Five Career Lessons from Han Solo,” appeared in Forbes on March 29 and was one of the most read articles on LinkedIn. Another [...]