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1. Tell employees about any significant changes in the company — and tell them fast, before the rumor mill and the media get a jump on you. Some CEOs and other leaders delude themselves into thinking that if they don’t say anything, the employees won’t notice that anything is going on. Wrong. Employees know when something is up, and in the absence of management communication, they’ll take their information wherever they can get it, often from each other.

I was recently reading Michael Winerip’s “Time, It Turns Out, Isn’t on Their Side” article in The New York Times. The article is a follow-up to an article Winerip wrote a year ago about out-of-work Baby Boomers looking for jobs [...]

There’s nothing like the excitement of starting your own business. Most entrepreneurs have a certain nostalgia about the days when their companies were only a few steps beyond those initial notes on a legal pad — or a cocktail napkin. There’s something about the feeling of making something out of thin air.

In a market where good jobs are at a premium, it’s been surprising that so many of our recent job applicants have been strikingly unprofessional and self-focused. It’s true; Tribe does support work-life balance. But that often seems to be misinterpreted by outsiders to mean that work comes second.

Yesterday, Tribe’s first iPhone application launched in the App Store and on iTunes. This is a perfect example of how quickly a small company can do something that would take a large corporation months of meetings before they even got going. A small team of talented and capable people can move mountains — or in this case, launch an iPhone app in something under six months.

Yesterday the New York Times ran a headline that read, “At 58, a Life Story in Need of a Rewrite.” The article was about Michael Blattman, who’s been out of work since January of 2008. Blattman is a 58-year-old MBA with a strong resume in financial services who once earned $225,000 a year. After a year and a half of an unfruitful job search, it seems obvious that this guy should start his own business.

Like many, I entered the world of LinkedIn a few years ago feeling very wary. It was yet another mode of communication to keep track of, and I was already multi-tasking with my phone, email, texting, Facebook, YouTube – you [...]

In this recession, many companies are being launched by people who never meant to be entrepreneurs. These people haven’t long harbored the dream of being their own boss; They just haven’t been able to find a job and are thus taking matters into their own hands. The New York Times published a piece yesterday titled “On to Plan B: Starting a Business,” by Mickey Meece that touched on several of what I consider to be important themes in today’s entrepreneurial landscape.

Based on the ever-growing number of people who are using social media – both inside and outside of work – I believe it’s fair to say that if you’re not leveraging this channel then you’re doing yourself and your business [...]

This is the curse and the blessing of an entrepreneur lucky enough to land a big client. That one large client can take your company to a whole new level, increasing your billings dramatically. You’re able to hire more people, upgrade a few things, maybe even expand. It’s fantastic. And also terrifying. What if you should lose that client?