5 New Businesses You Can Invest Your Money in Today
When you have the cash — at retirement, for example — but can’t come up with a good business idea to put your money into, every business idea that comes around…
7 Ways to Stay Top-of-Mind When It’s Time to Choose Who Gets Promoted
Staying stagnant in any career is not ideal. Have you noticed that once you have reached and found success at your current level that you naturally become curious about what…
3 Simple Strategies for Success When Money Is Scarce
This column is part of a series brought to you by Entrepreneur Coaching. Click here to learn more. Success in business depends on how well you can turn your resources into profits.…
How to Implement an IT Overhaul
Novelis is a leading producer of rolled aluminum, and a global leader in aluminum recycling. The company’s aluminum is used in everything from automobiles to architecture to beverage cans…
Twilio Courts IT Pros With Management Tools
By introducing enterprise management tools, Twilio aims to make it easier for large organizations to deploy cloud-based communication softwa IT organizations tempted by the prospect of deploying cloud communications…
What Does It Take To Be A Real IT Leader?
Elliot Luber is a visiting assistant professor of business, management, and leadership at SUNY Empire State College’s School for Graduate Studies. Here, he shares his views on what it…
Are You Making this Common Major Career Mistake?
There’s plenty to learn about personal branding. You can also find lessons about things successful people do to get that way. Far less often do people stop focusing so much on…
How to Successfully Curate a Great Online Reputation
Self-employed people, from real estate agents to Uber drivers, have long understood the importance of managing their online reputation. And whether they’re maintaining a website, a LinkedIn page, a Yelp…
Do This 1 Thing to Make Every Meeting More Productive (and End on Time)
Quick, take a look in your conference room. I’ll wait for a moment. See anything unusual in there? Something that might be hurting the productivity of your team or making…
Three Compelling Reasons Why You Need A Mentor
r Find the Jobs to your Zuckerberg. Apple and Facebook are the two biggest success stories of our times. Among other unique leadership traits of their respective founders, it…
What if We Listened to All of Our Stakeholders?
In his TED talk, Rev. Jeffrey Brown tells the story about the The Boston Miracle — a 29 consecutive month period of zero juvenile homicides. As I learned more about him and his…
The Rise of the Chief Ecosystem Officer
The New Leaders of Innovation in Health Overwhelmed by lifestyle- and age-driven burdens and suffering from diminishing resources, many health systems, care institutions, structures and practices are straining to…
The 7 Rules Confident People Follow
Have you ever noticed that some people seem inherently confident while others prefer to comfortably fade into the background? You might argue that confidence is all in our upbringing or…
Compliance records provide fuel for big data analytics
Access information markets for big data analytics Analytics tools ingest information that allows massive volumes of comparable information to be evaluated so unexpected patterns, trends or relationships can be recognized.…
How to Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs
America has a long-running crisis in manufacturing employment. Quite simply, year after year, the number of people employed in making things declines — the figure is down by nearly 5…
Far-Flung Shareholder Meetings May Be a Red Flag
Bottom Line: When a company chooses to hold its shareholder meeting in a distant location or at an odd time, executives might be trying to avoid revealing bad news. As…
Rapid Prototyping: The Best Route to Happy Customers
In June 2014, Jeff Bezos took the stage at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters to announce its latest product: the Fire Phone. He had no idea he was announcing the biggest flop in the company’s…
How Being Funny Can Help You Build Your Brand
Building a strong brand can be thought of in terms of a sequence of steps, in which each step is contingent upon the successful completion of the previous step. All…
5 Vital Keys to Success From the Likes of Tony Robbins and Gary Vaynerchuk
When closely studying successful people, you realize that each story is unique. Each person has his or her own quirks, success habits, turning points and failures. How they get to…
Belief and Behavior Is What Makes Sales Training Stick
Back in the 1970s, IBM was the gold standard of sales training. They would put their salespeople through a program that lasted up to six months and relied heavily on…