Are you training your leadership team to cultivate emotional intelligence?

Good leaders recognize the crucial nuances between personal and professional relationships and use the right psychological principles to motivate a workforce.

Seek mentors, build a team of people who bring expertise to the table that you don't have. That often starts with looking at what you're NOT good at and admitting it - something a lot of founders struggle with.

Diane Hessan is a dynamic business woman, author, influencer, and angel investor who I had the pleasure of meeting at a networking event in Boston many years ago. Since that time, she’s been an unofficial mentor for me, as well as an ongoing inspiration to women in tech and highly regarded Boston business leader. She sits on the Boards of numerous companies, including Panera Bread, and is currently CEO of Salient Ventures and has been engaged in a wide-ranging longitudinal study of the American voter as a columnist for The Boston Globe.