Are You Thinking About Planning Your Exit?
In the first part of this series, we introduced the five stages of entrepreneurship we work with on a daily basis. Finally, we come to the last of the five…
8 Seriously Overrated Things That Will Never Make You Successful
What are the most overrated things in life? Taking Jobs Just Because “They Pay” They are a waste of time and kill your moral and mental drive. There’s work…
Tackle the ABC of Anger Management at Work, Home, Everywhere
Tackle the ABC of Anger Management at Work, Home, Everywhere Do you walk away from angry confrontations with ease and grace? Are you left with hurt feelings, emotional scars…
How Your Firm Can Reach the 87 Million Millennials on LinkedIn
How Your Firm Can Reach the 87 Million Millennials on LinkedIn Here’s a breakdown of millennials’ influence and preferences on the social networking site. Scarcely a day goes…
Everything You Wanted to Know About Getting Into Venture Capital
If you want to become a doctor, you go to medical school. If you want to become a lawyer, you go to law school. But how do you become a…
How to Innovate with the Crowd
Some insights about the adoption of a crowdinnovation platform A growing number of firms adopt open innovation strategies, especially through crowdsourcing platforms. With the exception of some emblematic…
How Many Types of Innovation are there?
The simplest way to categorize innovation is into two types – incremental and radical. Incremental innovation is an improvement in an existing thing (e.g. product, process or service). Radical…
Advice for IT leaders: How to tell the cloud story
Elements of a compelling cloud story There are four critical parts to the case for cloud computing. 1. Cloud needs to be part of — not separate from — the…
Google Cloud Databases Reach General Availability
Emerging from beta, Google’s cloud databases are ready for business workloads. Google’s managed databases now come with a guarantee in the form of a Service Level Agreement, or SLA.…
Google Fiber Plots Wireless Service Despite Rollout Delays
A new report finds that Google Fiber is being hampered by a slow and costly rollout of its physical high-speed internet service. To overcome delays and cost overruns, the…
4 Industrial IoT Startups Taking Development To The Cloud
From where IT professionals sit, these are early days for industrial IoT. Still, the software, hardware, and network ecosystem required for delivering on the promise of IoT will eventually…
5 Steps That Can Shorten The IT Hiring Process
IT hiring managers who take too long to extend a job offer may suffer from the snooze-you-lose syndrome — specifically losing a candidate’s interest within a week of the…
10 Ways To Doom Your Next Mobile App
There are many ways to mess up mobile app development. These 10 will get you to #fail the fastest. We all live in a mobile world now, and…
8 Powerful Morning Routines of Ultra-Confident People
Exceptionally confident people weren’t born that way–they got there by making it a habit and flexing their confidence muscles daily. The ultra-confident know that just like when you skip your…
8 Ways to Always Stay Employable in Changing Times
One thing is certain in the economy: uncertainty. A change in world economics, disruptive technology, or a presidential election can make the difference between plenty of jobs or thousands of…
The 7 Positive Habits That Pay Off the Most
Start the day off strong and positive by reaffirming what you want. What are the highest compounding life habits? Working on everything you want 1 hour a day.…
There Is No One True Path To Innovation
Innovation has become like a religion in business today, with “innovate or die” as its mantra. When a company succeeds, people attribute its good fortune to superior innovation. When…
3 Business Innovation Reports You Must Read Right Now
Business innovation: no matter what industry you’re in, it’s a priority, a critical strategy, a goal, or task #1 on the CEO’s to-do list. There’s good reason for the focus: studies…
The Acceleration Factor
A company’s performance critically depends on its teams. And team performance, at every level, depends on the ability to accelerate — to operate at an increasing pace, doing in weeks…
SaaS Security: 5 Tips For IT Pros
Cloud services present a major challenge to IT professionals charged with safeguarding their organizations. These 5 steps can help managers bridge the gaps in SaaS security. IT managers trying…