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3 Reasons Why You Stop Listening To Your Customer (And Why You Shouldn't)
By Fan Bi One of the key strategies that allowed my company to find success -- and be named to Inc. Magazine's "30 Under 30" list -- was to listen to our customers and steer the company accordingly....
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What Going Through Two Startup Incubators Taught Me About Business
Arry Yu is the CEO and Founder of GiftStarter.com (Emotiv Labs).  Arry got her start advising world class brands including Microsoft, Google, and L'Oreal at the intersection of where business and...
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Tips for Bringing Your Child to Work
White Sox designated hitter Adam LaRoche retired last week, walking away from a $13 million salary because he was told to "dial it down" and leave his teenager home more often. Simply stated: Bringing...
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5 Things Leaders Look For in a Difference Maker
Attitude is everything. Or is it? Great attitudes are infectious and can positively impact the behaviors of others. Of course, poor attitudes can also be infectious, and not in a good way, but that's a...
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Don't Believe You'd Pay a Woman Less? Here's What You're Not Considering.
A male entrepreneur recently said to me, "I don't believe that women make $.77 on the dollar." My initial response was to ask if he believed in gravity, in the hope of illustrating to him that the...
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5 Proven Strategies for Scaling Without Losing the Personal Touch Your...
Building a business is a brutal undertaking. With a 90% failure rate for startups in the United States, you have to be a mix of crazy and overly optimistic. The rewards for those who hit it out of the...
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How President Xi Is Facing Pushback From Within the Communist Party
A highly significant essay, "A Thousand Yes-Men Cannot Equal One Honest Advisor," appeared recently on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, which is in charge of Chinese...
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Be the Change... but How?
Everything is changing all the time, nothing is permanent. Even if we attempt to take action to keep things the way they are, everything else around us is changing and we are in relationship to...
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The Turing Test
The Turing test goes something along the lines of not being able to distinguish machine behavior from that of a human as a sign of artificial intelligence. In the digital age of innovation, quants,...
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Is Your Business Taking the "Social" Out of Social Media?
In today's marketplace, customers expect to engage with brands and get a glimpse of its organizational culture. Some organizations post product and service driven content in their effort to focus on...
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Proposal: Shift Control of Appraisals to Mortgage Borrowers
There are two ways to make the home loan market much more efficient by empowering borrowers. The first is to authorize borrowers to order their own appraisals. The second (considered next week) is to...
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How to Eliminate Friction and Boost Sales on Your Ecommerce Site
E-commerce sales are inarguably a smart business move. By the end of 2015, E-commerce sales are projected to be $347 billion. By 2016, that number is expected to be approximately $400 billion. Clearly,...
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Why Microsoft Should Channel Carl Jung
Tech in the 21st century fragments rather than integrates. It allows us to pack more "stuff" into every hour. But the technology that's supposed to make life easier actually makes it harder to enjoy....
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TPP: The New Gold Standard for Intellectual Property Protection in Trade...
By Carlos A. Primo Braga, Associate Professor, Fundação Dom Cabral, Brazil and former Director, Economic Policy and Debt, The World Bank. This commentary is based on a paper Prof. Braga presented for...
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The Other Entrepreneurs: A Disappearing Peru Folk Art
Mabilón Jiménez Quispe survives in one of Lima's poorest areas thanks to his handicraft -- making retablos -- a folk art derived from traditional Catholic church art. The floor of his workshop, on the...
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7 Reasons Why You Should Own Physical Gold
Since the start of the year the price of gold has rallied 18% and is currently at around USD 1,267 per ounce. With the financial markets plagued with uncertainty stemming from a potential slow down in...
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What March Madness and Sports Can Teach Us About Storytelling
This post is co-authored with Natalie Shammas. It's that time of year when strength and endurance are tested, when pride and loyalty are at their peak, and when miracles can happen: March Madness....
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How Purpose Is Informing Transparency In The Food Industry
The food industry is in the midst of a revolutionary change and the growing call for transparency has become unmistakable. The concepts of transparency and real food are tangible values that more and...
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4 Ways to Bounce Back Faster After a Failure
I stared at my inbox, my face burning with anger and my eyes blurring with rage-tears. I read my fourth rejection email.My fourth rejection email that day.I blinked away my tears, determined to not...
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4 Ways to Prepare Your Business for Growth
By Daniel WesleyNothing stunts the growth of a young business quite like a lack of planning. When my company was in its early days, I often found myself unable to scale as quickly as I wanted to...
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