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Prevent PR Disaster: 6 Steps for Crisis Planning
On a dark and stormy night, while dining in a high-end chain restaurant, the fire alarm went off. What happened next revealed an enterprise that either lacked a crisis plan or was totally absent crisis...
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Five Things You Don't Owe Your Boss
The typical workday is long enough as it is, and technology is making it even longer. When you do finally get home from a full day at the office, your mobile phone rings off the hook, and emails drop...
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Berkshire Hathaway's Q4 Earnings Show Buffett Still Has It
Wow, Buffett knocked it out of the park:Berkshire Hathaway 4th-quarter profit up 32 percentBerkshire Profit Gains 32% to $5.48 Billion, Capping Record YearBerkshire’s Earnings: A Surprise Boost From...
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We're All Encore Now
Forget the Grammys and the Oscars. February's most important award ceremony is "Encore 2016: Celebrating the Encore Effect." Though this get-together receives far less fanfare, it is a celebration of...
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10 Ways to Spot a Truly Exceptional Employee
A recent international study surveyed more than 500 business leaders and asked them what sets great employees apart. The researchers wanted to know why some people are more successful than others at...
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7 Mistakes Leaders Make That Make Everyone Miserable
From Enron to Volkswagen, we've watched in horror as leaders who lack integrity have destroyed businesses time and again. But the real tragedy happens when regular leaders, who are otherwise great,...
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Improve Your Leadership Skills With These Great Tips
Improve Your Leadership Skills With These Great Tips Many people say that great leaders are simply born, but in our opinion they must be grown. While someone can start out with the capability for great...
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Electric Vehicles Could Soon Reduce Oil Demand By 13 Million Barrels Per Day
Electric cars could upend oil markets much sooner than everyone thinks. According to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), the rapid decline in the cost of building batteries for...
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Sherpa Success and Ego
Getting caught up chasing success and ego can sometimes cloud our judgement. Watch my discussion with Dawa Jangbu Sherpa (nearly four years ago) on our way down from Mt Everest. Jangbu was one of the...
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3 Tips for Being Less of a Social Media Jerk
Are you a social media jerk? We all know at least a few. It might be that person who just doesn't get that nobody wants their game invites, the direct selling rep who won't stop adding you to party...
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Tax Season Is Upon us and so are the IRS Scam Calls
Taxes can become your worst nightmare. One of the daunting aspects about moving to the U.S. was having to deal with the new taxation system. Moving from Canada to the U.S. with brokerage accounts, real...
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An Afternoon With Vinod Khosla
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." -- Mike Tyson After a brief, memorable chat with Vinod Khosla last year at TechCrunch Disrupt, I was eager to see the legendary venture...
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The (Introvert's) Effective Guide to Networking Like a Pro
Networking. You might love it or you might hate it. It depends on a few different things. If you get anxious in situations where you don't know anybody, that might cause you anxiety. If you get excited...
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Essential Versus Important: The Life Changing Power of Less
Have you ever found yourself saying, "The day got away from me?" You set goals; you have a strategy; you think know what's most important. Then, somehow, your day is hijacked by other people's agendas....
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Three Ways to Manage Millennials by a Millennial
As it is now, it's clear that millennials are saturating the workforce of every industry. We're everywhere! As a millennial myself, I often hear a ton of misconceptions and stereotypes about my snap...
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How Great Planning Equals a Healthy Balance Sheet
The world is changing fast, and new industries take shape every day. Our increasingly global marketplace means new opportunities for entrepreneurs, remote workers, and inventors with the brains and...
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Wish You Had Different Strengths?
Do you long to be more creative? Wish you had more humor? Want to be more self-regulated? In my experience after completing strengths assessments like the free VIA Survey people often find there are...
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[Infographic] 50 Features Small Business Websites Must Have
When creating a website, a lot of small business owners create basically an online business card: a website with a company name, a list of services, and a phone number. Maybe they even add a link to...
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5 Habits Holding You Back From Creating Great Content
Lack of planning: When we don't plan in advance the topics or at least the themes we want to write about, we lose the ability to gather helpful information along the way. Not to mention without...
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Create Divergent Moments
Embrace diversity, breed new thinking, collaborate, allow the crazy ideas to breathe and create those often insane divergent moments, because this is the only way we are ever going to create the future...
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