Victoria Hale covers business, leadership, and high-performance culture, with a particular interest in ambitious founders, executive positioning, and modern wealth creation.
There's a specific category of truths about running a company that founders rarely share with each other, even with their closest peers. This is what they don't say.
A specific phrase has become shorthand for a strategy most people are misapplying. The actual practice of working smart looks different from how it's usually described.
The advice that worked for women building careers in their twenties does not work — and may actively harm — women who have already established themselves.
A specific failure mode shows up repeatedly when smart, successful women start angel investing. Naming it could save a generation of investors significant money.
After years of watching companies succeed and fail, certain patterns become hard to ignore. The best operators do these five things, and almost no one else does.
