Motivating employees with creative, "outside the box" thinking can have surprisingly positive effects.

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 17:25

This article is by Deborah Grayson Riegel, president of Elevated Training Inc., a communication skills training and coaching company, and author of Oy Vey! Isn't a Strategy: 25 Solutions for Personal and Professional Success. As soon as the haunting, graphic opening credit sequence began to roll for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, I started ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 22:56

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by email? Tormented by stacks of paper? Paralyzed by the clutter in your office? professor Jackie Gilbert did, too - but she found a way to conquer it, and her lessons can help almost any executive enjoy a cleaner office and a clearer mind. Gilbert's collection of office detritus had ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 17:24

The National Health Service in the UK is markedly inexpensive by international standards. The only advanced system that is markedly cheaper is Singapore?s, which uses an organisational and financing structure that no one else does (although arguably more should). An interesting little point being made today about how that relative cheapness of the NHS comes ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 19:57

This article is by Jeff Schmitt, a marketer and former online columnist for Bloomberg Businessweek and in , Iowa. You can lose your whole team?s respect, and no one will ever even tell you. Years ago our team gathered at a posh steakhouse to celebrate blowing out our region?s sales goals. We cut loose, plucking ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 15:53

How do you win when the odds are stacked against you? Fred H. Bartlit, Jr., one of the country's top litigators, offers his two cents.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 22:56

When Kleon was asked to give a presentation at Broome Community College, the Texas-based author and artist had no idea that the slides from this talk would be become a viral sensation and form the basis for his new book, Steal Like An Artist. Equal parts manifesto and how-to, Steal Like An Artist aims to ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 13:25

Katniss Everdeen, the hero of the Hunger Games, provides a valuable lesson for a startup trying to survive the corporate Hunger Games.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 13:56

Now that my new book, Success as a Mediator for Dummies is about to launch, mail, email, carrier pigeons and messages in bottles arrive at my door regularly, seeking "how to" advice for writing a Dummies book.

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 18:55

The venture capital industry gets a lot of good press, especially for job creation. [Bear in mind, however, that entrepreneurs do the heavy lifting.] But, from a health care cost perspective, I think venture capital is part of the problem. I've criticized doctors in recent weeks; it's time to look at the role that we ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 16:55