Thinking Aloud
5 Reasons Why You Should Seek Rejection
Nearly 40 years ago, Robert D. Smith, author of “20,000 Days and Counting: The Crash Course For Mastering Your Life Right Now” learned the one business lesson that became the foundation of every success he's ever enjoyed. He shares that lesson with us.
Consumer Cloud File Sharing Steadily Edging Into Enterprise Space
Consumer-level cloud file storage and sharing solutions have been widely employed by the more tech-savvy professionals, whether it's with or without their IT departments' knowledge. Will enterprise versions balance functionality and security concerns?
Making Good Use Of The Competition
Should you give up if the competition is just too... competitive? Stacey Thompson argues there are ways you can take advantage of your rivals and inevitably come out ahead.
Lean In Or Get Out: 11 Tips For Using Your Expertise To Create A...
If you can’t lean in, get out? That’s what Vickie Milazzo recommends. She says women who are unhappy trudging up the corporate ladder should start their own businesses. She provides advice on how to use everything you’re really good at to bust out of the corporate world and start your own wickedly successful business.
3 Ways To Immediately Capture An Idea
Robert D. Smith, author of “20,000 Days and Counting: The Crash Course For Mastering Your Life Right Now” shares three things you need to do right away in order to get as much out of an idea that suddenly comes your way.
Practical Tips For Kicking Procrastination To The Curb
As startup founders or early team members, it’s easy to focus on the wrong tasks that only serve to waste precious time your startup can’t afford. Matt Boyd, co-founder of Sqwiggle.com, highlights some of these time-wasting distractions.
The “Art” of Business – What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Artists
To be a successful entrepreneur in today's world, a person cannot achieve a high level of success without being creative, argues Yatin Patel.
Helping Startups And Small Businesses: A Good Idea From D.C. (Can You Believe It?)
A good idea coming from a bipartisan group of lawmakers that would do much to help innovative startup companies, the engine of U.S. economic growth and job creation, by allowing them to take advantage of the successful Research and Development (R&D) tax credit. alliantgroup National Managing Director Dean Zerbe shares more.
What If We Don’t Love Chaos? A Cheat Sheet For Those Not Of Generation...
It’s easy for an unfettered 20-something to embrace chaos, transience, and everything else the “GenFlux” mind-set implies. But what if your team is made up of fearful 40-somethings with mortgages? Glenda Eoyang and Royce Holladay offer reassurance that all us “reluctant fluxers” can adapt to (and even thrive in) a chaotic new world.
Go Live With The Whales
Have a big adventure. It is not an option or a good idea. It is a must. Your physical, mental and spiritual well-being is critical to growing your business, says Bruce Hodes, author of "Front Line Heroes".
Freud Would Build An App For that: Bringing Modern Tech To An Analog Practice
CEO of Talk Session, Melissa Thompson believes we are on the brink of amazing discoveries in neuroscience and impactful implications for mental healthcare treatment.
Making Green From Green
There are dozens, hundreds of ideas, large and small, that organizations can implement to positively impact the environment. Bruce Hodes, author of “Front Line Heroes“, shares why this needs doing.
Why Bother Being A “Good” CEO?
The world needs better men and women to lead and provide shining examples of humanity and excellence. Stacey Thompson argues why you can - and should - be one.
The Next Generation Of Funding For The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs
Startups are hungry for credit, but banks and other financial institutions have never been stricter with their financing parameters. But the availability of other unconventional funding options is also increasing, says Ingrid Vanderveldt, Dell’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence.
The Lean In Alternative: Why Leaning Back Also Works For Women In Business
Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In has received both high praise and disapproval from women. Whether you agree with everything she writes or not, says Vickie Milazzo, the core lesson that women should lean in and become leaders in the workplace is solid advice. But, she adds, in their rise to the top, women should also make an effort to lean back to help other women.
Innovative Technopreneurship In The Information Age
The majority of ideas don't even make it past the planning stage, and for those that do, the attrition rate is horrendous as they move along each stage from planning to production. Brandon Peters suggests how an aspiring entrepreneur can get around such challenges.
Learning From Rockefeller
Few people have taken a serious look at one of the most successful businesspeople in world history: John Rockefeller. Brandon Peters looks at what this pioneer of the oil industry has to teach us.
The ABC Process For Ranking Team Players
Leveraging the “people piece” is essential to enhance a company’s performance advantage. Bruce Hodes, author of "Front Line Heroes", shares his “ABC” process designed to give your company both a people and a performance edge.
Love And Giving Aren’t Green: Startups & Corporate Social Impact
CEO of Talk Session Melissa Thompson says an important lesson she learned and continue to develop is the need to establish process and foundation for social impact early on in companies - no matter the stage of the venture.
This Is No Time for Scared Money
An old gambler’s adage — “Scared money never wins” — is as timely today as it was when it was coined in the 1940s. Drew McManigle and Laurie Brunner argues in this piece that investing in success is always worthwhile.
Getting Better At Email
It’s in everyone’s best interest – senders and recipients; brands and consumers – to deliver an email that the intended person wants to read. Otherwise, you’re just wasting time and ticking people off, says MaryAnn Bekkedahl, co-founder and president of theSwizzle.
Tips For Going Green For St. Patrick’s Day
Join the St. Patrick’s Day festivities and wear something green, but Liam Supple, Product Marketing Manager of SingleFeed recommends small businesses the following tips to make sure their business is green too.
Can App.net Make It? On Dalton Caldwell’s Talk At SXSW.
by Garrett Heath
In the age of the advertiser supported social network, one person is trying to flip the script and create a paid social...
How Money Challenges Prevent You From Building The Life You Love
Here are a few tips from personal finance expert Angelina Jennifer that will help you realize your potential and set you on the path to financial success so that you can live your dreams.
Five Lessons On Teamwork The Business World Can Learn From “His Airness”
On February 17, basketball superstar Michael Jordan turned 50. In honor of this occasion, Bruce Piasecki invites business leaders to consider not just the basketball giant’s talents, but how the teams on which he played allowed them to shine.
How Mobile Phones Can Help Tackle The World’s Literacy Problems
The world’s foremost technologists are joining forces with aid organizations in leveraging smartphones as literacy-improvement tools. Louise Miller explains how.
Why Business Relationships Take More Than Texting, Friending, And Online “Connecting”
Technology has yielded some great communication tools, but Barefoot Wines founder Michael Houlihan says they are not relationship builders. Here, he shares seven reasons why the personal touch will always be more effective than pixels on a screen.
Would George And “Honest Abe” Make It In Today’s Business World?
Sometimes it seems the business world thrives on “harmless” small fibs, misdirections, and lies of omission. But in honor of Presidents’ Day, Joseph Callaway challenges you to rediscover the career-boosting virtues of honesty. He offers seven reasons to tell clients the truth.
Top Five Digital Health Trends For 2013
Melissa Thompson, CEO of Talk Session shares five trends she thinks will dominate the healthcare front in 2013.
Ten Simple Things You Should Do This Data Privacy Day
In line with Data Privacy Day on January 28, Norton offers ten simple things you can do to better protect the information you share online.