The Single Most Aggravating Thing About Being an Entrepreneur
You know exactly what I am talking about. Your business is really coming together. You finally have the right staff to help you fire on all cylinders. You picked up…
Why Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership So Controversial?
Why is the TPP so controversial? Answer by Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States: This is an important question. And the answer reflects a larger paradox we’re…
5 Ways Companies Need to Market to Millennials in 2017
Businesses are seeing an increase in millennials entering the workforce at a rapid rate. As of 2012, they are the first generation to surpass Baby Boomers in numbers. In 2017,…
Sales Success Starts With a Team Approach
It’s true every sales team has that one rep who crushes every monthly goal, while others struggle and have a tendency to underperform. The 80/20 rule is never truer than…
Why You Should Let Employees Work Remotely
The remote workforce is expected to account for nearly three-quarters of the U.S. workforce by 2020, and your business could benefit from having a more flexible remote work policy and…
IT mindset: CIOs, tech departments work to overcome the ‘IKEA effect’
Transcending boundaries While the CIOs take somewhat different approaches to changing hearts and minds, the basic outlines of the cultural destination appear to be quite similar. Greater customer focus and…
Innovation Is The Only True Way To Create Value
In The Outsiders, William Thorndike argues that the most essential skill for a manager is capital allocation. To prove his point, he profiles CEOs such as Henry Singleton of Teledyne and John…
Companies will ‘get serious’ about AI technology in 2017
What’s the problem? Before businesses get swept up in the AI hype, CIOs should start at a sensible — and, likely, familiar — place: What business problem are they trying…
This Is What’s Next Now That the Gig Economy Has Changed Everything
The rise of the freelancer: some estimates are that over 54 million Americans are now taking contractual gigs rather than steady employment. After the recession, some temporary gigs were necessary…
Think You Can’t Win Against Chargebacks? Think Again.
Have a business problem you just can’t figure out? Feel screwed, with nobody to take your call? Entrepreneur is here to help with a new column called “What’s Your Problem?” Email [email protected], and we may investigate…
The Customer Isn’t Always Right and You Need to Challenge Them
If I was asked to recount all the ways the customer is not always right, I might run out of page space on this website. That enormous project with the…
Why You Should Let Passion Drive Your Success
Passion is a driving factor towards getting more accomplished during your day and life. In this video, Christine Johnson, the president of nonprofit talent acquisition and recruitment firm STAR Chicago, explains how passion…
Selfless Leaders Prioritize Value for Customers, Not Personal Profits
If you’re thinking that we’re moving away from the idea that “business is a cutthroat environment where costs are minimized and customers are squeezed for every penny,” you may be on to…
5 Ways to Blow a Business Speaking Opportunity
Speaking at events is a major opportunity to market your business and establish your expertise, thought leadership and credibility. It’s also a potentially huge revenue stream for your business. I…
How Transparency Can Slash Your Churn Rate by 89%
If you run a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, you probably know how difficult it can be to achieve a low and stable churn rate. Simply put, a business’s churn rate is…
The Benefits of Repeat Entrepreneurship
Imagine that you’re in your car, getting ready to drive to a place that you’ve never been before. Sure, you might have a map pulled up on your phone, but…
Raise Your Prices AND Get Better Clients
Have you ever noticed there are some businesses that are always “liquidating” or having their final “going out of business” sale? It’s because over the past decade we have become…
How to Sell People on Really Big Ideas
I was recently talking to someone about his plans to launch a new concept focused around data analytics in the B2B space. He walked me through his models, his research,…
How Data Growth Complicates Compliance
Regulatory compliance and eDiscovery now rate among the highest essential IT and business priorities for any organization, regardless of size or industry. What’s more, the complexity of managing this task…
Paris Accenture Innovation Center: Creativity on starting-blocks
What is the Paris Accenture Innovation Center ? In a nutshell, a dizzying innovation team, acting in a tremendous place for creativity! Identity and purpose Paris Accenture Innovation Center…