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The Best Way To Grow As A Human Is To Be An Entrepreneur
SumAll, a New York-based startup that provides data and analytics for small businesses, is extremely young, but according to CEO Dane Atkinson, growth has been "white hot." The company is up to 35...
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ROWE Creators: Best Buy's CEO 'Just Doesn't Get It'
Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly killed the company's "Results Only Work Environment" (ROWE) program after taking the helm of the embattled retailer.The program allowed corporate employees to work wherever...
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Female Ad Execs Earn Thousands Less Than Their Male Colleagues, These Data Show
Female ad sales execs make tens of thousands of dollars less per year than their male counterparts, according to a survey by SellerCrowd, a professional networking site for media sales...
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Trying To Be Certain About Everything Kills Great Ideas
Here is one of the biggest innovation obstacles around: the need for certainty.Dwight Towers posted a great quote from Frederick Douglass over the weekend that gets at the problem:If there is no...
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This Texas Company Has A Totally Obvious Solution To The Skills Gap
A common complaint among businesses is that they have open positions and want to hire, but can't find the right talent.There's some truth to the argument; there aren't enough people getting technical...
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How To Convince Fortune 500 Companies To Use Your Tiny, Insignificant Startup
Corey Capasso has launched five startups. For two of them, Nomi and Salesforce-owned Spinback, his job was to reel in big clients.When no one has ever heard of your company though, that's a daunting...
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Why I Think LinkedIn Endorsements Will Be Dead By The End Of The Year
Today, I received LinkedIn endorsements of my skills from five people I’ve never met.There’s no way these people have any context for my ability to deliver the skills and expertise they endorsed.Don’t...
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URSULA BURNS: Seeking Perfect Work-Life Balance Is A 'Fool's Journey'
Work-life balance and women in the workplace have become a hot topic after Sheryl Sandberg published Lean In, a book on the subject, and Marissa Mayer controversially recalled Yahoo's remote workers,...
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This CEO Is Giving His Employees 'Get Out Of Jail Free' Cards
When Jim Donald became CEO of Extended Stay America, he noticed immediately that employees at the hotel chain constantly feared losing their jobs.This made sense because the company had recently...
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There Are At Least 9 Senior Executives At JCPenney Who Commute By Jet (JCP)
JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson was called out by The New York Post's James Covert for commuting on a company jet every week from his home in Palo Alto, CA, to the JCPenney headquarters in Plano, TX.The news...
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15 Hot Brands Vying To Be The Next Lululemon
Lululemon's sheer yoga pants blunder could have blown the door wide open for competition. The brand is facing a "tsunami of competition," according to John Zoldis, senior vice president at Buckingham...
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Needed: One Outstanding Advertising Account Executive
Business Insider is looking for an advertising account executive who is proactive, highly motivated, and has a firm understanding of the online advertising industry and a tenacious desire to succeed in...
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How To Prepare Yourself To Win
As any great athlete will tell you, winning isn't accidental.It requires more than just planning and knowledge.You must also be able to get yourself into the right mental state to win, on cue, every...
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Overconfidence Makes CEOs With Too Many Stock Options Perform Badly
Conventional wisdom has it that paying company bosses with a lot of stock and options aligns their interests with those of shareholders. But a working paper from three researchers in the US and the UK...
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Here's Why 'Introvert' Jack Dorsey Could Be A Great Mayor
Twitter and Square Founder Jack Dorsey said on 60 Minutes this week that he wants to one day be Mayor of New York City. Although he currently lives in Silicon Valley, Dorsey told CBS reporter Lara...
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How This Young Entrepreneur Struck It Big After Failing 15 Times
Corey Capasso is only 26, but he's already founded five companies. He founded his first startup, a plastic retainer business in Connecticut, when he was 18. He noticed classmates chewing on pen caps,...
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The Dangers Of Making Rules For Stupid People
Can I assume that you’ve heard about the recent case in Florida in which a woman was arrested for riding a manatee?When I heard about this incident my first thought was: “What kind of idiot tries to...
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JCPenney's 43,000 Job Cuts Were Twice The Amount That CEO Ron Johnson Stated
There were bound to be job cuts when JCPenney flipped its management team and announced its transformation in late 2011.But, as it turns out, the number of job cuts was higher than expected.JCPenney...
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The Walls Are Closing In On Lululemon (LULU)
Lululemon is no longer the golden child of retail.Today, the company reported earnings today to a chilly reception from analysts.Lululemon recently announced it was recalling 17 percent of its yoga...
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The Young Head Of Fiat-Chrysler Gets Business Tips From Henry Ford's Heir
John Elkann is the scion of one of the auto industry's great families the head of Fiat and Chrysler.The 36-year-old is the heir and grandson of Gianni Agnelli, the former Fiat chairman and one of the...
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