The Junto Institute Blog

Introducing the Junto Podcast: Flourishing Together

What We Can Learn from Ben Franklin's 24 Questions

Making Better & Faster Decisions with Budgets & Standards (Part 3 of 3)

Leading with Standards and Protocols

Vision, Mission & Values...for People

The Morning Routine and Growth Mindset

Making Better & Faster Decisions with Strategic & Operating Plans (Part 2 of 3)

Lead with Love

Making Better & Faster Decisions with Vision, Mission, Values (Part 1 of 3)

The Pursuit of Flourishing vs. The Pursuit of Pleasure

How a CEO Can Learn How to Get Better

Five Lessons Learned with Vision, Mission & Values

Practicing the Skill of Leadership

Centeredness, Leadership & Emotional Intelligence

The Leadership Responsibility

Building an Emotionally Intelligent Company

There Are Startups, and There Are Re-Startups

The True Power of Testimonials

Learning about Emotional Intelligence Helps Us Become More Emotionally Intelligent

We Are the Thermostat, Our Team Is the Thermometer

Hedonia, Eudaimonia, and Business

Learning Alone, Growing Alone

Emotions, Energy, and Walking Away

The Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence

The Right and Wrong Ends of the Telescope

The New Year: It's a Test of Our Emotional Intelligence

Vision, Mission, Values: It's Business and It's Personal

You Are On the Brink of Everything

JuntoAlumni Win Awards

The (Employee) Benefit of Better Leaders And Better Managers

More Validation that Learning Emotional Intelligence as a Team Makes It Better

Introducing the Newest Junto Companies in Chicago and Los Angeles

A New Version of Junto's Program

Virtuous Leaders, Virtuous Companies

JuntoNight 2017: The Company Asks

JuntoNight 2017 in Photos

What I've Learned About Company Culture

How to Lower the Risk of Hiring New (Sales) People

Two JuntoAlumni Companies Named to 2017 Inc. 5000 List

The Yin and Yang of Every Business: Value Creation and Value Delivery

Writing Job Descriptions: Shared Experiences & Lessons Learned

Junto Welcomes Taylor McPartland as Managing Director of Los Angeles

Hiring and Firing: Lessons Learned and Helpful Reminders for Growing Companies

A Simple Approach to Differentiation: Your Company's Identity or Your Customer's

Leaders Have a Choice to Be Emotionally Intelligent

Six Lessons Learned about Compensation Plans, Bonuses and Profit Sharing

The Magic of a Single Moment of Self-Awareness and Its Effect on Leadership

The $5 Million Question: When Does a Growing Company Need to Hire a New CEO or COO?

Junto Is Expanding to Los Angeles

How People Grow Together at Junto

I Am Not Alone and Neither Are You

Experiences, Habits, Family, Learning, Team, Leaders and Emotions: Thoughts and Soundbites from the JuntoIV CEOs [VIDEO]

Announcing JuntoV, Our Latest Apprenticeship Program Cohort

How Emotional Intelligence Leads to Love at Junto

How We Incorporate Love Into Our Weekly Huddles

How Being Lovely Helps You Become a Better Leader

The Power of Appreciation

Shared Experiences and Reflections from the Latest Junto Graduates

Oh, What a JuntoNight 2016!

JuntoNight 2016 in Photos

JuntoNight 2016: The Company Asks

The Right Way to Give a Heart-to-Heart Hug

How to Create Operational Process for a Team Hiring New Employees

How to Create Operational Process for a Team Training and Onboarding New Employees

How to Create Operational Process with a Stable Team

People Drive Process: How to Begin Creating Operational Processes

Nine Leadership Lessons from Three CEOs

Spikeball Is #289 on 2016 Inc. 5000

3 Things I Learned From Interviewing 27 Mentors

How The Junto Institute Got Its Name

The Genesis of The Junto Institute: The Idea, The People, and The Outcome

Aligned and Exponential Learning: The Philosophy Behind JuntoClasses

Why We Take Notes in Junto Sessions

Manage People With Standards Not Expectations

The Junto Emotion Wheel: Why and How We Use It

How We Communicate with Entrepreneurs to Optimize Their Time and Get What We Need

Why Emotional Intelligence Matters to Leadership

How and Why Investors Benefit from Junto

Companies, Mentors and Instructors Recognized for Achievement

Company Values: How to Create, Formalize and Use Them on a Daily Basis

What I've Learned about Culture & How I've Grown in My First 100 Days at Junto

Improving Cash Flows: Fundamentals that All Growth-Stage Startups Know but that Few Execute

Startup Founders Don't Ask for Directions Because They Don't Know They're Lost

A Peek Inside Junto: What Happens During the First 100 Days

What Junto Really Is and Why I Love What I Do

Emotional Intelligence: What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from a College Student

What I Get to Do Every Day and Why I Love It

4 Marketing Lessons to Grow Your Business

The 10 Most Important Things You Should Know When Considering Junto

Your Company's Culture Is Its Soul

How I Learned About the Importance of Passion When Building a Business

JuntoPractices: Hiring Strategies and Tactics that Work

JuntoIV: How Our Latest Cohort Is Different from Past Ones

How to Craft Your Company's Core Values

My First Impressions from Joining The Junto Institute Team

How To Save Unhappy Customers

What A Company's Mission Is and Why It Matters

How Growth-Stage Companies Set Their Plans and Goals

Announcing JuntoIV

A Company's Strategic Core: Vision, Mission, Values

Our Top Blog Posts of 2015

How to Create a Successful Mentor/Mentee Relationship in a Startup

What We Learned This Year About Company Founders and Leaders

Company Culture: Startups That Have to Grow Up

A Word Problem: Leadership Is About Others

Junto2015: The Year in Pictures

How to Make Better Decisions As Your Company Grows

7 Year-End and New Year Activities for Growth-Stage Companies

Happy JuntoHolidays

Millennials, Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

Spikeball: Behind the Curtain of Fame and Glory

Oh What A JuntoNight 2015!

In Memory of Jim Liautaud

For Founders, It Always Feels Lonely At The Top But It Doesn't Have To Be

JuntoDay: Why and How We're Doing This

JuntoDay: Building Sales Process & Strategy

JuntoDay: Growing a Business is Not Scaling a Business

How to Run Great Board Meetings (Part 3 of 3)

JuntoDay: Hiring People and Crafting Culture

How to Run Great Board Meetings (Part 2 of 3)

InsideJunto: October 2015

It Takes Nine Months to Build a Habit

How to Run Great Board Meetings (Part 1 of 3)

The Art and Science of Operational Processes

I Have More Emotional Intelligence Than You. But That Can Change.

The Struggle That Startups Have With Finding, Hiring, Leading, Managing and Firing People

Get Better at Sales, People & Scaling with JuntoDay

KnowledgeHound's Big Month

Emotional Intelligence Training & Millennials

Female Founders and Chicago Both Rise In Global Startup Ecosystem

Solid Interactive: A Story of Open-Book Management and Open Leadership

How to Find Great Startup Mentors and Advisors

How to Measure Emotional Intelligence When Hiring People

Why Startup Founders Often Disagree With Each Other

How to Get Better at Leadership & Self-Management

Mergers & Acquisitions - Lessons Learned from JuntoMentors

Three Junto Companies Named to Inc. 5000 List

How to Get Better at Building a Sales Team

InsideJunto: July 2015

Flip-Flops Are Only For The Beach

As a Leader, Communicating is Job One: Here's How To Do It Better

Six Ways Startups Can Get Better at Hiring and Firing

GetMaineLobster: How Startup Leaders Can Create a Meaningful Customer Experience

What Startups Can Learn From Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing

InsideJunto: June 2015

Lack of Emotional Intelligence = Leadership Impotence

Defining Your Startup's Sales Process from the Customer's Point of View

The Case For Authenticity

KnowledgeHound Raises $1.2 Million in Seed Funding, Shares Lessons Learned

Become a Trust and Track Leader

Working on the Business: Three Ways Startup Founders Can Think Strategically

When It Comes To Leadership, Being Authentic Is Being Selfish

Start With Why: How Startup Leaders Can Inspire Their Teams

Spikeball Strikes a Deal on Shark Tank

A Business Decision is Made in the Best Interest of the Business

What Is Entrepreneurship?

How Startup CEOs are Learning & Growing as Leaders: Interviews with JuntoIII

Growing the Team: Welcome to Remo Picchietti

Leading, Learning & Leaning In: The JuntoIII Startup Founders Get Off to a Strong Start

Spikeball Appearing on Shark Tank on May 15

Are You Worth Following?

When You're a Startup CEO: Four Ways to Optimize the Relationship With Your Mentor

The Glass Helmet: Breaking the Invisible Barrier Around an Entrepreneur's Mind

Weave the People: How a Growing Startup Built a Foundation on its Culture & Values

Inside Junto: March 2015

Leadership in Action

First Impressions of Joining Junto

The JuntoWay: How We Run Our Mentorship Program

The Untapped Potential in Our Workplaces

Announcing JuntoIII

Eclipse Telecom: A Story of Culture Warriors

Five Lessons Learned From The Junto Retreat

Five Big B2B Marketing Trends For 2015

Oh What a (Junto) Night!

Music Dealers: A Story of Company Transformation

The Power of a Title

A Peek Into Junto: The Operations Class at Nick's Pizza

Tiesta Tea: A Story of Tenacity

Our Latest Testimonial: Chris Ruder of Spikeball

Become The Company That You Sell

Why Do Your Customers Buy?

How Great Companies Hire

Announcing JuntoII

Junto Night 2013: A Look Back