Equal Potential, Unequal Paths: Explaining the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurial...
By Yuri Soares and Shoshana Grossman-CristYuri Soares is chief of development effectiveness at the Multilateral Investment Fund. He holds a PhD in economics from Michigan State University and a...
View ArticleHow to Write Both Fast & Well, Part 5: An Ancient Lesson in Three Acts
Last time, I showed you how to give your writing some shape by using the Inverted Pyramid format. As I said, this shape works well for news, because the reader finds more important material closer to...
View ArticleThe Last Generation of People Who Hate Their Jobs
My memory is pretty bad, but there are a few things etched in my mind: when I first laid eyes on my wife. The moment the doors opened at the back of the church and she turned the corner to walk down...
View Article40+ and Unhappy at Work? Listen to These 5 Podcasts to Jumpstart Your...
There are millions of people who, just like you, are unhappy at work. The global statistics only tell part of the story. What I can tell you from my experience and from the stories I hear and read on...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup: Advent of the Third Industrial Revolution
The WorldPost strives every day to chronicle the ongoing contest between two competing futures. One future is a world coming together through the convergence of new technologies that promise ecological...
View ArticleHow You Can Manage Email Like a Millionaire (5 Simple Rules)
How can you cut the time spent on emails in half? How can you get to "inbox zero" every single day? I recently interviewed over 200 millionaires, entrepreneurs and highly successful solopreneurs for my...
View Article8 Ways Sleep Can Help (or Hinder) Your Work Performance
Americans have a sleep problem, and that means we have a work problem. We're getting less and less sleep (especially on work nights), to the point that the CDC has declared sleep deprivation a public...
View ArticleWhat Drivers Need to Know About Deer Season and Car Insurance
Deer-car accidents can cause injuries, damage and even death, and are more likely to happen in late fall, when hunters are out and animals are on the move. In addition to endangering your health and...
View ArticleSharpening the Saw: How to Take Time Off Without Losing Momentum (Or Your Mind)
There's one quality that virtually all entrepreneurs share: the desire to become their best selves. They aren't interested in seeing how much downtime they can steal away. Instead, they want to...
View ArticleThe Rise of Coworking
The 2020 Intuit report starts with: "imagine a world where companies motivate and manage employees who never set foot in their corporate office." This is a distinct possibility in coming years....
View ArticleHow to Turn Your Failing Business Around
They say embrace it but many of us hate it... FAILURE. Failure is viewed as a lesson to learn from but who really likes to fail with a business idea that they worked so hard to establish? No one! And I...
View Article10 Interview Mistakes That Could Cost You Your Next Job
By Caroline Banton, Contributor Knowing what to do in an interview -- and what not to do -- can make or break your job hunt. Apart from the more obvious interview mistakes, such as a poor appearance,...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Internet of Things and the Race to a Zero Marginal Cost Society
This essay is the second in a four-part series on the theme, "The Third Industrial Revolution." An introduction by Arianna Huffington is available here. Part one is available here. Stay tuned for the...
View ArticleThe 5 Perspectives That Make Smart People Smart (10.1)
"The more you become nobody, the more you can become anybody. The more you become anybody, the more you become everybody." A sign of cognitive development is your ability to see systems. As you become...
View ArticleKnowing Carly: From Corporate America to Political Ambitions
From my time at AT&T and Lucent, it seems that the public persona of Carly Fiorina is an accurate depiction. As people first observe, Carly is very intelligent, articulate and tough. I'd say, even...
View ArticleTrans Hacking Startup Land: Gender Performance and Deception
"Oh I'm trans." There's that moment when you're chatting and the words sink in, the sudden lull in conversation, the blink between confusion and comprehension, when they realize that the person they...
View ArticleHow Science Can Inform Good Leadership
We've all had "those days" at work where nearly everything seems to go awry. From that traffic jam delaying your first meeting to opening an inbox full of bad news, our patience and well-being are...
View ArticleThe 3 Core Ways to Build a Personal Brand
Amidst an era where social media has dominated the ways in which we receive, interpret, and communicate information, personal branding has become a crucial part of our expression, and a key factor of...
View ArticleWhen Image Is Everything, Brands Need Timely, Authentic Creative
Visual storytelling has historically been confined to the images that media and entertainment companies place on front pages, magazine covers and TV screens. That's no longer the case, though. An...
View ArticleDisney on VICE
I'd like to share a news story.New York PostAdweek An important news story from the U.S. that will soon affect the world...in fact, already does.... Hailed by the media, analysts and assorted expert...
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