July 2, 2018: This Week's Best Business-Building Articles

July 2, 2018

This week, Ratchet+Wrench highlights how to avoid undermining your employees' trust, email marketing tips to grow your business, and how to empower your employees with a loving leadership style.

July 2, 2018—To better assist shop owners with their production management, marketing tactics and leadership styles, Ratchet+Wrench has compiled a short list of essential business-building material from some of its favorite sources.

7 Ways Leaders Undermine Trust and Destroy Their Company Culture Without Even Realizing It — Entrepreneur

Toxic company culture often starts at the top in the active bad behavior of a senior leader or by those who have supervisory responsibilities. To get the root of the problem follow the toxicity wherever it leads because people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Here is a list of the fastest ways to kill corporate culture.

5 Email Marketing Tips to Grow Your Small Business — Business.com

Are you looking for ways to use email marketing to grow your business? Then you'll want to take a look at these five email marketing tips to help boost your sales.

Leading With Love: An Unconventional Approach To Leadership — Forbes

Tamiko Cuellar believes that the most important component of a successful business is love. And not talking about warm and fuzzy feelings of love, but the kind of love that allows your staff to be imperfectly human, like the kindness of noticing that a staff member is having a bad day or feeling overwhelmed with the pressures of life.

5 Misconceptions About Networking — Harvard Business Review

There are five basic misconceptions can keep people from reaping networking’s full benefits. Which of these are holding you back?

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