Mobile app for visually impaired could improve GPS accuracy
Slight left at cedar fence. Right on alleyway, between restaurant with covered patio and flower shop. Destination is through green door on left. Not like directions you’ve seen on your…
4 Easy Steps to Increase Sales Through LinkedIn
You’re personal brand’s website is an important tool where meaningful connections can be created. In order to establish yourself as an expert in your field you need great content and…
Hey, You! Here’s How You Can Be a Better Listener. (Infographic)
There’s a difference between listening and hearing. Many of us think we’re good listeners, when in fact we’re probably just hearing the person next to us. Actively paying attention and…
How Your First Board of Directors Shapes Your Company
Congratulations! You’ve grown your business, and your company has expanded. It’s time to assemble a board of directors (BOD) to help protect, govern and manage all you’ve built. The good news:…
5 Signs You May Need To Re-Energize Your Sales Pitch
Sales professionals have a tendency to fall victim to complacency, as they settle into a routine after finding some success and then presume that they can just keep operating the…
Creating a Brand That Drives Your CEO Reputation
The following excerpt is from Karen Tiber Leland’s book The Brand Mapping Strategy. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes Noble | iTunes All CEOs have the daily opportunity (and…
11 Secrets to Staying Productive and in Control
TalentSmart has tested more than a million people and found that the upper echelons of top performance are filled with people who are high in emotional intelligence (90% of top…
3 Powerful Ways to Keep Your Past From Dictating Your Future
Growing up, I was a pretty unlikely candidate for the life I’m leading today, at least that’s what it looked like from the outside. I was raised in a rougher…
6 Ways to Leverage Global Innovation to Grow Your Business
The World has been Flat for more than a decade, and our worldwide market continues bringing people and countries closer and closer. Competition and opportunity increase as technology travels across…
Should You Ditch Annual Performance Reviews? It Depends.
Old business conventions are dying out. The 9-to-5 workday is slowly being chipped away at, and some workers don’t even need to commute to an office anymore. The workplace is…
4 Tips to Boost Your Sales
I’m fascinated by China’s role in the world. They have a love/hate relationship with a lot of countries – especially ours. And while the U.S. Trade Deficit reaches over hundreds of…
This Is How Your Super-Detailed Sales Contract Is Slowing Down Your Revenue
Are your contracts slowing you down? Miriam Rivera, an early attorney at Google, found the length of new business contracts were slowing down the pace of business just as the…
Don’t Be the ‘Next Big’ Anything: 4 Tips for Creating Unique Value
Like a sitcom that claims to be the next Friends, any move you make that sets high expectations is likely to lead to a letdown. Related: Why the Investment Potential of the ‘Internet of Things’…
5 Solitary Challenges No Entrepreneur Likes to Admit
It’s easy to glamorize the life of an entrepreneur. As the progenitor of a business, you have creative control, which means you get credit for the idea and you get…
4 Tips for Success From a Multi-Millionaire Serial Entrepreneur
The story of the hustling D-student who built a business from a dorm room never gets old, which is why I loved interviewing Kenny Dichter. That’s exactly how the serial entrepreneur,…
3 Common Business Tasks That Actually Hurt Your Company’s Growth
On any given day, how many hours would you guess you spend working on your business? And on any day, how many hours do you actually spend moving your business forward?…
ESC Labs IT Manager Finds The Right Chemistry With Cloud
Tom White is the IT director at ESC Labs as well as a trained chemist. During his work day, he weaves between the two worlds in order to deliver the…
8 Intelligent Questions for Evaluating Sales Reps Performance
No experienced football coach would ever consider sending his team onto the field without being right there on the sidelines–observing their every move. The same applies to your sales team.…
3 Ways to Find Meaning in Your Job
This story first appeared on The Muse, a Web destination with exciting job opportunities and expert career advice. Some jobs just scream “saving the world!” As a culture, we tend…
The Skills Gap is a Myth Stifling Innovation in Business
If there’s one thing that I’m getting sick of hearing about, it’s the skills gap. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a very real situation happening here: as of the…