Best Business Books 2016: Economy
Robert J. Gordon The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (Princeton University Press, 2016) Adair Turner Between Debt and the…
Best Business Books 2016: Management
Robert Cialdini Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade (Simon Schuster, 2016) * A TOP SHELF PICK Joseph L. Badaracco Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at…
Are True IT Leaders Born Or Made?
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 makes a…
Healthcare’s Looming Disruption: How Can IT Prepare?
A new Gartner Maverick report says that annual physical medical exams and primary care doctors are about to be disrupted by IoT medical devices and algorithm. Here’s how IT must…
Why Data Analytics Projects Miss the Mark
While data-analytics projects have the potential to contribute greatly to organizational goals, professionals overseeing these efforts are encountering a wide range of issues that stand in the way of success,…
You Need to Keep A.I. in Mind as You Market Your Product
Marketing is an always-evolving field, making it difficult for brands to keep up. Often insight into the next big trend comes from new technologies themselves. For modern-day marketers, those technologies…
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…
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…
Six of Apple’s Most Recent and Wildest Inventions
Six of Apple’s Most Recent and Wildest Inventions From a super-intense set of body sensors to a bag, it seems there’s nothing Apple won’t patent. Apple has been a driving…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…