Hiring Guru: 'Honest Abe' Hiring Advice
During our economic recovery, companies are expanding and needing to not only hire new employees, but also to hire the best and brightest. Customer experience and service can make or break your...
View ArticleHiring Guru: Martin Chitwood - Recovering Billions for Investors
Martin Chitwood, Partner at Chitwood Harley Harnes LLP, has served as lead or co-lead counsel in more than 40 class actions nationwide and has been instrumental in recovering billions of dollars for...
View ArticleWhat Jimmy Stewart Knew About Banking
There is a great movie about banking out there that gets a lot of play this time of year. It's old, in black and white, stars Jimmy Stewart and takes place during Christmas time. And while many people...
View Article(VIDEO) GroupM's Gotlieb & Cablevision's Dolan on Audience Measurement...
FORT LAUDERDALE --Â In an age where connected TV providers can give advertisers accurate viewing data, hot off the box, what good is the decades-old method of measuring TV audiences using panels of...
View ArticleLooking For Startup Success? Find What Works In One Industry, Then Apply It...
Over the past several years we've seen the steady growth and popularity of business incubators such as Lightbank and Sandbox Industries and startup accelerators such as Y Combinator and Tech Stars....
View ArticleCreating Breakthrough Innovations Through Design With Big and Small Data...
Co-written by Finn Birger Lie For decades, Business Intelligence (BI) and, more recently, Big Data Analytics (BDA) has been successfully applied to create incremental innovations. These incremental...
View ArticleThe GOP's Tax Warfare
The discovery was startling -- since the millennium, middle-class whites are dying at sharply increased rates. The reasons are equally stunning. The primary killers are self-inflicted: drugs, alcohol,...
View ArticleThe 80/20 View of Fame
I was asked an intriguing question this week by a friend, Juan from Monterrey, Mexico, that you might like to ask yourself. The question is: which of these two companies would you rather start and...
View ArticleExxonMobil in Denial About Climate Science Denial
Michael Barone, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, calls climate science "propaganda" based on "shoddy and dishonest evidence." ExxonMobil's counteroffensive against allegations...
View ArticleMajor Electric Utility Dumps ALEC Over Clean Power Plan
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has suffered the loss of another major corporate sponsor, the Guardian reported Tuesday, with the electric utility American Electric Power (AEP)...
View ArticleTumbling Tuesday -- China Trade Data Adds to the Bear Case
Another $3,000 winner for you! Â Just like we did last Wednesday in the morning post, yesterday we laid our a Futures trading plan that has led to a $3,000 per contract gain on the Russell (/TF) Futures...
View ArticleNailing Workforce Diversity Is Tricky - Even for a Diversity Recruitment Startup
This post originally appeared on Linkedin.com. There's something a little ironic about the process of hiring new team members when you run a diversity recruitment startup. When my cofounder Ryan and I...
View Article6 Sure Signs of Business Inertia...and How to Break Free
The last time most businesspeople heard the word "inertia," was high school physics. If you're like me, that's an experience you would like to forget, so I apologize if I'm dredging up old memories,...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Innovation Theater: The Six Decisions To Make Before...
This is the third in a series about the changing models of corporate innovation co-authored with Evangelos Simoudis. Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model...
View ArticleCanceling Christmas: Why Your Business Should Stay Top of Mind Throughout the...
John Ruhlin and his firm THE RUHLIN GROUP are considered to be the foremost experts on developing relationships with key executives and the topic of "Appreciative Leadership." He speaks nationally on...
View Article4 Ways Workplace Giving/Volunteering Can Drive Employee Engagement
One aspect of small business HR that's often overlooked is employee engagement. But getting your team members to invest emotionally in your company is a huge part of the equation for success. The...
View ArticleBig Tobacco, Big Fossil Power Machinery of Doubt
Exxon has been in the news lately. Exxon's Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels' Role in Global Warming Decades Ago and Exxon Sowed Doubt About Climate Science for Decades by Stressing Uncertainty,...
View ArticleThe Economic Weakness Right Under Our Nose
More than two million net new jobs have been created this year in America, a not too shabby number. Not a single one of them, though, is in manufacturing. That's terrible news, not only for people who...
View ArticleThe Business of Volunteerism
"You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give." - Winston Churchill All of the volunteers I have crossed paths with in my role at Common Threads, the nonprofit organization...
View ArticleBusiness Leadership on Climate on Display in Paris; Backward Thinking on...
PARIS - Wandering the halls of the UN COP 21 climate summit venues here, it's easy to see how businesses are helping lead the way in real action on climate change. *81 U.S. companies, from giants like...
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