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20 Inspiring Rags-To-Riches Stories
In a time of rising inequality and sluggish growth, rags to riches stories are harder than ever to come by. Indeed, many of the richest people in the world were born into their wealth. That makes it...
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Women With Finance Skills Have A Much Easier Time Landing Board Seats
Almost half of female executive directors are financially qualified, while 65 percent have a financial background, the study shows. This compares to just 26 percent of their male colleagues being...
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Red Hat CEO: We've Grown So Fast That Employees Spread This Crazy Rumor About...
What does it feel like to be the CEO of a super-hot company as it crests the billion-dollar-revenue mark and grows to 5,000 employees?Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says that it's hard to notice the...
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This Army Exercise Was So Useless It Inspired A Psychological Theory
Long before he won the Nobel Prize for Economics, Daniel Kahneman was a psychology officer for the Israeli Defence Force. He got a lot out of his time in the army too, including inspiration for the...
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D.C. Starbucks Are Going To Write A Fiscal Cliff Message On Cups
Dec 26 (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp will use its ubiquitous coffee cups to tell U.S. lawmakers to come up with a deal to avoid going over the "fiscal cliff" and triggering automatic tax hikes and...
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What's Considered A 'Best Practice' For Your Business May Be Dead Wrong
For many decades, newspapers were big; printed on the so-called broadsheet format. However, it was not cheaper to print on such large sheets of paper – that was not the reason for their exorbitant size...
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This Family Man Quit His Steady Job At Citigroup To Dive Into Startups
After seven years helping Citigroup launch new financial ventures, Jay Bhattacharya got the itch.A veteran of the first dotcom boom and bust, he'd found a safe perch at Citi. But he found he wanted to...
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The 20 Most Inspiring Companies Of 2012
Many local and global companies make it a priority to give back to their communities, whether it is a core part of their mission or not.This year, we've seen many companies go above and beyond to...
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Why French Parents Are Better Than American Parents
The most popular article of the year in the Wall Street Journal was an excerpt of a book by Pamela Druckerman called "Bringing Up Bebe."The excerpt describes the moment in which Druckerman realized...
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The New Black Friday Strategy Backfired On America's Retailers
This year's holiday retail numbers are uglier than anticipated. Growth came in at 0.7 percent— the weakest since 2008.The strategies that retailers used over the holidays didn't convince enough...
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33 War Strategies That Will Help You Achieve All Your Goals In 2013
Best-selling author Robert Greene brought us the book The 33 Strategies of War, and so 33 clearer ways to accomplish your goals in 2013.In the book, Greene writes "the problem for us is that we are...
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The Difference Between Smart And Clever Is The Difference Between Winning And...
Millions of people are smart. To truly excel, you need to kick it up a notch.We've all seen smart people lose to clever people. I know I have. (Not that I'm smart. Work with me for a bit.)Years ago I...
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'Personalized Persuasion' Is The Future Of Marketing, And It's Only Just Begun
“Successful entrepreneurs recommend reading this article about the persuasion techniques companies use to drive engagement.”Scratch that, how’s this? “Tons of people are tweeting this article. Find out...
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It Can Be Risky For Doctors To Prescribe 'Smart Drugs' To Healthy People
A new report warns that doctors should not prescribe psychiatric medication to healthy people who use them as “cognitive enhancers.” On the PsychCentral website, Rick Nauert writes:“Researchers from...
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Women Are Reshaping Germany's Video Game Industry
Irina Galtsova has to concentrate on what she’s doing. If she makes a mistake, the inhabitants of Bonga Island won’t be able to plant any more palm trees, go fishing, or make pottery. Plus she could...
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The 10 Most Expensive Domain Names Of 2012
Domain names can cost as little as $2. But if they're highly desirable, they can be sold for millions.DN Journal keeps tabs on all domain name sales and updates its year to date sales list weekly.In...
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An In-Depth Look At The Most Impressive People of 2012
Felix BaumgartnerChris ChristieHillary ClintonR.A. DickeyGabrielle DouglasMario DraghiLena DunhamTony HsiehLeBron JamesJoe LhotaMars Curiosity RoverMarissa MayerJim MessinaElon MuskPussy RiotJohn...
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6 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Get More Things Done
You know the saying, can’t see the forest for the trees? Well, entrepreneurship can turn you into a treehugger very quickly. The trouble is, the forest (a.k.a. the big picture) can often fade to the...
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How To Prevent Minor Setbacks From Ruining Your Whole Day
We all overcome. In fact, our innate ability to get over things is so fluent and natural that most of the time we don’t even notice it. The other morning, for example, I arrived at my desk and realized...
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The 10 Most Read Books In The World [Infographic]
Given all the hype surrounding E.L. James's "Fifty Shades Of Grey," you might think that's the most popular book in the world. But you'd be wrong.The most read book in the world is the Bible.Writer...
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