19 Tips For Success From Superachievers
What do superachievers all have in common?Authors Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield set out to find the answer with their book, The Art Of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do And How They Do It...
View ArticleGoing Mobile Has To Be A Transformation, Not An Experiment
When it comes to adapting mobile and digital technology, there's a tendency to want to do it slowly, to dip a toe in the water before committing, and change one part of a business at a time.That's...
View ArticleHere's What Pret A Manger's President Thinks Every Time You Pronounce The...
Pret-ah-mon-gur?Pray-a-mahn-jay?Pretty manager?Pret A Manger is an international fast food chain that has its name mispronounced all the time.We spoke with Martin Bates, president of Pret U.S., and...
View ArticleDavid Sacks Should Be Microsoft's Next CEO (MSFT)
At the Launch Festival, a startup conference held this week in San Francisco, tech impresario Jason Calacanis interviewed Yammer CEO David Sacks.One of his questions: Is Microsoft, which acquired...
View ArticleIBM CEO Ginni Rometty: Managers Need To Get Over Relying On 'Gut Instinct'
Last night, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty gave a speech to the Council On Foreign Relations breaking down how much the world has changed as computing gets smarter and more integrated into our businesses and...
View ArticleMankind Has Already Passed The Singularity And Is Soaring Into The Future
As Cosma Shalizi says: "The singularity is in our past."Look at the bleeding edge of urban North Atlantic or East Asian civilization, and you see a world fundamentally unlike any human past.Hunting,...
View ArticleStartups Are Getting Sick Of NYC's Dirty, Overcrowded Coworking Spaces
Last year, I wrote an article in Business Insider about how the NYU Poly Incubator was one of the best coworking options in the city.Since that time, several startups in NYU Poly have had sizeable...
View ArticleYuri Milner's Advice To Founders: 'Think About All the [Crap] You Will Have...
If Yuri Milner, a notable tech investor, could give aspiring entrepreneurs one piece of advice, he'd tell them this:Be prepared to deal with a lot of BS for your startup.At annual tech conference South...
View ArticleAmerican Apparel's First Profits In Years Put The CEO's Sex Scandals In The...
American Apparel recently reported its first net income profit after 12 straight quarters of losses.That's an amazing turnaround for a brand which a few years ago was close to bankruptcy; its CEO...
View ArticleHow Elon Musk Hires: 'It Matters Whether Someone Has A Good Heart'
Technology entrepreneur and SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the audience at South by Southwest, a large conference in Austin, the biggest mistake he's ever made.It has to do with hiring the wrong...
View ArticleIT Departments Have Become Completely Useless
Peter Hinssen is the CEO of Across, a visiting lecturer at London Business School and a senior industry fellow at UC Irvine's School of Business. Follow him on Twitter @hinssen. Is the Chief Digital...
View ArticleHow A Box Of Cereal And Acting Like A Cockroach Helped Airbnb Become A...
When Airbnb's founders were just getting started, they had no way to fund their short-term apartment rental business. They maxed out a binder full of credit cards and racked up tens of thousands of...
View ArticleThe Startups Everyone Is Talking About At The World's Craziest Technology...
South by Southwest is an annual technology, film, and music conference in Austin, Texas. It's in full swing right now; tens of thousands of investors, entrepreneurs, writers, and early adopters have...
View ArticleWhy 40,000 People Fly South Every March For A Tech Conference Many Of Them...
Mike McGlade is experiencing his first South by Southwest, an annual technology, film and music conference in Austin, Texas that attracts more than 120,000 people during one week in March.Unlike a lot...
View ArticleHow Mike Lazerow's Life Has Changed Since Buddy Media Was Acquired For $689...
Mike Lazerow has started a number of successful businesses. His latest is Buddy Media, which was acquired last year by Salesforce for about $680 million.We saw him this morning at South by Southwest...
View ArticleErin Callan: I Sold Myself Short In My Wall Street Career, And Ignoring My...
Former Lehman Brothers CFO Erin Callan, who was one of the most powerful women on Wall Street before the bank's demise, has written a really gutsy op-ed in The New York Times. Her op-ed, "Is There Life...
View ArticleHere's Why You SHOULD Listen To Billionaire Sheryl Sandberg On Gender
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is promoting her controversial book, "Lean In," on "60 Minutes" tonight. In a CBS preview, she defends her message that women should take more responsibility for their own...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Controversial Things About Women Sheryl Sandberg Just Said
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg appeared on "60 Minutes" tonight to explain her controversial views on women in the workplace.Sandberg insists that one reason there are fewer woman in top leadership roles...
View Article6 Rules That Should Be Guiding Your Career
Daniel Pink’s The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need conveys a number of principles about the world of work that everyone should take note of.Please follow Careers on...
View ArticleFacebook Feminist Sheryl Sandberg Candidly Responds To All Of The Haters
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has ignited tons of press over her controversial new book, Lean In. During a 60 Minutes segment she defended her message that women need to step up and own their...
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