Have you ever wondered what was behind the loudest sound on Earth? To put things in perspective, a vacuum cleaner is around 70 decibels, a blender is about 90, and a live rock band will produce about 120. So what made a sound so loud it may have been almost 250 decibels?
5 leadership secrets every small business owner should know
Owning a small business is never easy. There are challenges around every corner, not all of them financial in nature. Managing employees, balancing the books and keeping up with new business trends can be overwhelming for any business owner.
Thankfully, there are many other business owners out there who have gone down the same path. Many of them have faced hardships on their way to success. As they’ve climbed the ladder to success, they’ve learned a great deal.
Learning from other people’s fortunes and even failures can help motivate us in our own entrepreneurial path, guiding us when things seem too difficult to get past. Here are five leadership secrets every small business owner should know.
1. “If you don’t innovate, you evaporate.” – Kim Komando
No successful business can remain stagnant. Times change and your tactics need to change, too. The worst thing you can do is get so married to your practices, products and output that you never stop to make things better.
My team and I are always looking for ways to improve what we do and pivot if we find a new way to do something better.
Action item: A few times a year, I take a good hard look at what my team and I are producing. If there’s something that isn’t adding to the bottom line, we cut it.
That can be hard, especially if it’s a project you feel passionate about — but there’s no sense wasting time and money on something that doesn’t add to the value of your business or bring in money.
2. “Leadership has a core fundamental for me, and that is dialogue.” – John Spiridigliozzi (American Express)
Communication is key for any team to succeed, but it goes both ways. If you aren’t listening to your employees, they likely aren’t listening to you.
It goes back to that famous adage: “Teamwork makes the dream work.” As a leader, you want your team to support your enormous workload. We’re not just talking about tasks — we’re also talking about the mental load. It’s hard to come up with amazing ideas all on your own.
In fact, some of the best innovative ideas come from conversations you have with your teammates. Everyone has their own unique perspectives. A coworker might be able to spot opportunities you were completely blind to.
Real statistics exposed - the shocking toll of Tesla's autopilot
Is Tesla’s autopilot too risky for the road? My perspective in this 60-second podcast.
📉 Historic crash: On Tuesday, AI chipmaker NVIDIA’s stock tanked 9.5%, wiping out $279 billion of the company’s value. Wow! That’s the biggest single-day loss ever for a U.S. company. For perspective, only 27 companies worldwide are worth as much as NVIDIA lost. Investors are worried about AI and the U.S. economy. NVIDIA has denied reports it received a subpoena from the DOJ over antitrust concerns.
3,028
How many people made Forbes’ 2025 Billionaires List. Leading the pack? Elon Musk at $342B, Mark Zuckerberg at $216B and Jeff Bezos at $215B. Altogether, the list is worth a ridiculous $16.1 trillion! For perspective, they could literally give every person on Earth $2,000, but they won’t.
What is the smallest thing in the universe?
The universe is massive, filled with hundreds of millions of galaxies and stars 100 times larger than the sun. But what if we looked down instead of looking up? There are entire worlds all around us that we can’t see. The smaller we get, the crazier these worlds are. How small can we get, and what does the world look like from that perspective?
410 megapixels
What Canon managed to cram into a 35mm full-frame sensor. For perspective, it has a 24K resolution, 198 times sharper than HD. And no, it’s not coming to the consumer market anytime soon. It’s going to be used for surveillance so photos can be enlarged without losing their detail.
$19 trillion
In bitcoin transactions last year. To put it into perspective, bitcoin transactions totaled $8.7 trillion in 2023. This marks the first time since 2021 that the price of bitcoin has gone up, not down. How can you tell who owns bitcoin at a party? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
The future of tech: One U.S. lawmaker sees big changes coming
Could algorithms be the cure to cancer? What will the future workplace look like? And how could blockchain protect our privacy better than anything we have now? In this episode, Kim sits down with Congressman David Schweikert, who provides a politician’s perspective on the biggest plans lawmakers have for the future of tech.
Putting Apple's mind-boggling value into perspective
This week Apple became the world’s most valuable company, with a total market capitalization of $2 trillion. Let’s put that in perspective.
Podcasting insider tricks from a top media buyer’s perspective
Podcasting is exploding. It’s expected to be a billion-dollar industry within 5 years. In this Komando on Demand podcast, Kim speaks with the head of a top advertising agency about how to get started, how to make money, and how you can be part of this next revolution.