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How To Recover From Failure
You've started a company and it goes belly-up. Or you launched a new product and not only does it fail to sell, customers actually hate it. Or you get fired. What happens when you dare to dream, make...
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Hillary Clinton Is Tired Of The 'Women Still Can't Have It All' Argument
In a profile by Ayelet Waldman in Marie Claire, Hillary Clinton responded to a question about Anne-Marie Slaughter, who wrote The Atlantic's cover story on why women still can't have it all and once...
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Yelp Chief And Foursquare Money Man Dish On Local Commerce At IGNITION
The growing penetration of smartphones and tablets has driven predictions of massive business opportunity. There's even a trendy acronym: "SoLoMoCo," or social-local-mobile-commerce. But remember...
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SMALL BUSINESS WORKERS: It's Your Boss' Fault You're Missing Health Insurance
At the nearly 6 million U.S. businesses that have more than one person on the payroll, a lot of employees are unhappy about their health insurance. A study this year by insurance company Aflac found...
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What The World's Fifth Most In Demand Employer Is Looking For
Unilever manufactures a huge variety of brands including Axe, Ben and Jerry's, Lipton, and TRESemmé, but they don't have as identifiable a core product as Coca Cola, or as much of a company brand as...
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A Few Practical Insights By This Year's Nobel Prize-Winning Economists
Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley have won this year's Nobel for economics IN MOST countries it is illegal to buy or sell a kidney. If you need a transplant you join a waiting list until a matching organ...
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A Complex Algorithm Ranked The 29 Most Influential CMOs In The World
What makes a chief marketing officer successful: Is it internal importance within a company, or external influence in the public domain? Appinions, a company that tracks individuals' influence in both...
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Eight Ways To Grow Your Business Without Gambling
Building a successful business isn’t about doing one big thing right one time. Even though one big thing can cripple your business, it is usually a series of small things that determine how successful...
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Tory Burch's $2 Billion Business Started In Her Kitchen
Tory Burch is one of the most successful fashion designers in the world. Her business is worth $2 billion in less than a decade. But in an interview with Rock Center With Brian Williams, Burch...
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18 Proven Insights About Making Better Decisions
Every day we're faced with decisions, from the trivial to extremely important. Too often we simply go with our gut feeling and do what feels right. The problem with that approach is that it leaves us...
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You Should Be Able To Describe Your Business Strategy In One Perfect Sentence
Stevie Spring, who recently stepped down after a successful stint as CEO of Future plc, the specialty magazine publisher, once told me, “I am not really the company’s CEO; what I really am is its Chief...
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Why Bosses Shouldn't Always Give Employees The Answers
Sometimes it's easier for managers to give instructions rather than wait for employees to come up with solutions. Although this way of managing leads to quick actions and results, it inevitably stunts...
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Chipotle's Former Chairman Wants To Make A Big Difference With A...
Roti Mediterranean Grill is growing, and it's got the backing of a big-time fast food guy. The force behind Roti, an upscale fast casual concept that launched in 2007, is Mats Lederhausen. He's a...
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The Best Leaders Know How To Respond To Uncertainty
When the financial markets collapsed in 2008, executives were forced to focus on survival. But the unsettling slow-growth period that followed the collapse presents its own problems. Companies can get...
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We Really Are Stupider When People Expect Us To Be
Being tested for intelligence is a pretty nerve-wracking experience. Somebody's about to put a number on how smart you are, which can be very intimidating. In a piece in the New York Times, Annie...
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Before You Read The NYT Magazine Story On Tony Hsieh Taking Over Vegas, Check...
Reporter Timothy Pratt did an excellent job covering Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's big plans for Las Vegas in this weekend's New York Times Magazine. We also spent some time with Hsieh in Vegas to see how...
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Jeff Bezos: People Who Are Right Are People That Change Their Mind A Lot (AMZN)
Good perspective from Jeff Bezos who was speaking with Chicago tech company 37 Signals: He said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. He doesn’t think...
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We're Living In A Zero-Trust Economy
Trust is one of the most (if not the most) important values to build, grow and maintain in any type of relationship, whether professional or personal. It is one of those values that, once broken, can...
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Evernote Pays For Each Of Its 250 Employees To Have Their Houses Cleaned...
Tech companies are starting to get pretty creative with employee perks, and they're oozing into workers' lives outside of the office. Evernote is a company the helps you access notes, photos and more...
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A CEO's Signature Can Predict How Financially Healthy A Company Really Is
Signature size has been found to be a good measure of ego. When it comes to CEOs, an autograph on a yearly SEC filing is a particularly public and significant demonstration, and a good measure of...
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