Big Brands Are Being Built on Big Name Celebrities
Make it big in movies, on TV or in sports and then launch products with your name on it. This has always been a pathway to successful brand marketing. But with the rise of social media and big brand...
View ArticleThe Importance of Real-time Collaboration
Image by Norman Lear Center via Flickr Of the 8.7 hours average Americans spend at work each day, less than half of their time (45 percent) is used performing the primary duties of their job, according...
View Article4 Ways to Cater to Your Email Marketing Audience
By Jessa Barron, NextAdvisor.com Email marketing is an essential part of any and all marketing strategies now. It allows you to build relationships, communicate new ideas, generate feedback and also...
View ArticleWhy Content Marketing Is Essential for Early-Stage Startups
If you run a startup, maybe you've already been through an accelerator program and you have some bites from investors. You've received seed or angel funding, or closed a Series A round, and now you...
View ArticleConfession: How I (Almost) Lost My Husband in 10 Days
I packed up my office. Clicked off the light and skipped all the way to the door. Oops, did anyone see me click my heels in the parking lot? Better simmer down. All that happened the day I ditched my...
View ArticleF*ck Average: 19 Ways to Elevate to Excellent, Now
Today is not a day for fucking around, procrastinating, telling yourself you still have time or you're not yet ready. Today, as with any day, is a day when - purely through the power of choice! - you...
View Article6 Monsters Killing Your Writing Ability
When was the last time you sat down to write, and all you could generate was the flashing cursor on your screen? Has it ever happened to you? Recently, I was writing a post for my site and encountered...
View ArticleHow to Wrap Up Your Work Day...On Time!
Stuck at Work?I personally use these strategies to stop working on time and still complete the most critical tasks:In the afternoon, I take a quick assessment of how many hours I have left and what...
View ArticleRobert Reich Is Wrong
Robert Reich is at it again. The ex-Labor Secretary and unabashed free-market critic calls for breaking up Big Tech in the NY Times. From the piece:Whenever markets become concentrated, consumers end...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup: Connecting Minds Across Cultures
"Forty years of crisscrossing the planet has led me to suspect that the world isn't growing smaller," the inveterate traveler and literary journalist Pico Iyer laments. "If anything, the differences,...
View ArticleA present we can't unwrap
In only 150 years or so, we will have burned all fossil fuel on the planet, if carbon emissions keep rising like last year. Over time all ice on Earth will melt and cities like New York will be...
View ArticleThe Results of Being the Dumb Down Party
We saw in the latest CNN Republican candidate debate the results of what seems to be a prolonged campaign to discount almost all scientific facts, as well as intelligent discussion of the most...
View Article3 Proven Ways To Help You Achieve Your Goals
It's sad to think how many people go their whole lives dreaming of goals that they will never hit. While many of us have aspirations we want to reach, few of us actually get to the final destination....
View ArticleHow To Deal With These 3 Difficult Managers At Work
One of the biggest challenges for any employee is learning how to work well with a manager. A good working relationship with your manager can increase productivity and engagement, while a bad working...
View Article5 Reasons People May Not Be Following Your Leadership
There are times throughout a leader's tenure that he/she must look behind them and see if anyone is following. Are the goals that have been set being accomplished? Is the organization moving in a...
View ArticleJeff Woods, Community Evangelist at The Grid, Talks About Not Being Good Enough
Jeff Woods is the Community Evangelist at The Grid. Woods is also an amazing photographer and an accomplished entrepreneur.There is no clear route to becoming a creative. That very same journey becomes...
View ArticleDoubling Down on Denial and Deceit
Thanks to a months-long investigation by the Pulitzer-prize winning Inside Climate News, we learned last week that ExxonMobil's own scientists had secretly confirmed the science behind human-caused...
View Article3 Key Pieces of Technology Entrepreneurs Can Leverage to Grow Their Business
Starting a business used to require a lot of time and effort. All the paperwork needed to be filled out manually and submitted via snail mail. If you were lucky, you could go down to some clerk's...
View ArticleSanders's Winning Issue: Repealing The Corruption Tax
Bernie Sanders has attracted a devoted segment of the electorate partly largely by promising to tax the rich special interests, especially on their loopholes. Unfortunately, his segment is likely to...
View ArticleHow to Resolve Organizational Conflicts as One Team
"So oft in (organizational) wars The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!" -- John Godfrey Saxe An appropriate...
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