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5 Things Businesses May Not Know About Military Spouse Employees
I recently participated in the Department of Defense sponsored annual meeting for the Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP) in the greater Washington, D.C. area. The MSEP mission is to connect...
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When the Universe Gives You a Sign that You're on the Right Path, Embrace It
Just about a year ago, I had a setback in my career that made me wonder if I was doing the right thing with my life. I was preparing to head out to Los Angeles, to write about Hello Kitty Con and teach...
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Does Your Business Need Social Media?
Does your business need social media? It depends on your answer to this question: Does your business have customers that are on social networks? If the answer is yes, then you need to be there with...
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Navigating Beyond Profit to Achieve Wider Prosperity
Photo Caption: Julian Wilson and Andrew Holm of Matt Black Systems designed 'fractalism' to engage employees and double their profit. Almost unknowingly, business sits on the cusp of an awakening. No,...
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An Open Letter To Chairwoman Yellen From the Savers of America
Dear Chairwoman Janet Yellen: We are a group of humble savers in traditional bank savings and money market accounts who are frustrated because, like millions of other Americans over the past six years,...
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Weekend Roundup: Protecting the Cloud -- At the Bottom of the Ocean
This week, a new 21st century debate surfaced: How do we protect the data cloud we have all come to depend on when it is physically composed of cables running across the bottom of the ocean? The issue...
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Dumb and Dumber Debating -- Part II
Thank goodness the Republican House approved a budget compromise that lifted the debt ceiling for 2 years, and ignored the Republican Presidential debates. It was a compromise because Democrats were...
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Medicare and Open Enrollment
Medicare's open enrollment period is the time of year when you can change your Part D, prescription drug insurance or change from traditional Medicare to Medicare Advantage, or change Medicare...
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Tips for "Obamacare" Enrollment
Open enrollment for the third year of "Obamacare" starts November 1st, and if you want your coverage to start on January 1, 2016, your enrollment deadline is December 15th. (Final deadline is January...
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The Great Remix: Why Mergers Are Booming
Another day, another merger. Telephone companies, drug companies, drugstores, airlines, hospitals, retail stores, and beer. According to preliminary data from Thomson Reuters, $3.19 trillion in deals...
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If You Want to Be More Successful, Learn How to Sell
Perhaps the most important subject you can study and learn is sales. Yet many of the smartest people avoid learning it, and some of the best colleges shun teaching it. Why? One reason is that our...
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The Rigging of the American Market
Much of the national debate about widening inequality focuses on whether and how much to tax the rich and redistribute their income downward.But this debate ignores the upward redistributions going on...
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Learn Together to Grow Fast
Learning from someone who has been there, done that is is no longer OPTIONAL to succeed quickly. I have been fascinated for a long time on the topic of learning in general, and, specifically, the role...
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It's Not Your Father's University... Or Yours: Lessons From the U
Technology has always been a constant factor in the evolution of education: teaching and learning. From cave painting to the Greek academies to the invention of paper, from chalk to electronic stylus,...
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Four Business Lessons From Baseball
With the end of the World Series, I began thinking about all the lessons I've learned about business and leadership from baseball. Whether it was playing the game or watching it on TV, I realized that...
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Billionaire Yuri Milner's $100M Bet
In the past six years, we have discovered 1,031 planets circling around distant stars "in the habitable zone" (i.e. not too cold, not too hot... able to sustain life).These are 1,000 of an estimated 40...
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How Developing Nations Can Leapfrog Developed Countries with the Sharing Economy
This essay is the third 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. Part two is here....
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7 Signs That It's Time to Quit Your Job
Over the last 6 years, I've quit two great jobs. Both times, it was a tough decision. I felt guilty about leaving these amazing firms that many dream to join. Plus, letting go of the financial security...
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Using Data to Ditch the Blame Game
Ever played the blame game? That's the meeting where everyone blames everyone else for what's gone wrong. No one has any suggestions other than "change the way YOU do things and then I'LL be...
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3 Things That Will Always Stand in the Way of Your Goals
There are a lot of things that get in the way of a dream. Maybe you don't have the money right now to start the business you really want to run. Or maybe you can't seem to hire the right person to work...
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