Weekend Roundup: Refugees From Global Disorder Land in Europe
This week marked an historic milestone: More than 1 million refugees and migrants fleeing the global disorder of civil war, poverty and persecution this year landed on Europe's doorstep. It is the...
View ArticleWhen Your Boss Is a Crony
Have you ever started a new job only to find out that your boss is a part of a good-old-boys' fraternity -- and so is his boss? You get that funny, "I am in the wrong locker room" kind of feeling. Or...
View ArticleHow to Get Your Prospects to Know, Like, and Trust You
There are three components to a successful sale. First your prospect needs to know that you exist. Second they need to like you enough to reach out to you for their work. Third they need to trust that...
View ArticleMentorship: The Best Gift to Give and Receive This Holiday Season
As you find yourself in a sea of holiday lights, making toasts at cocktail parties, and exchanging warm sentiments, I encourage you to share a gift that has far more intrinsic value than any other....
View ArticleBeware This Year's Scams of Christmas
While the concept "forewarned is forearmed" is true for every day of the year, it's particularly true during the holidays. December is the time when most of us focus less on our day jobs and more on...
View ArticleMerry Christmas From Philstockworld!
Why it’s almost Christmas Eve, Mr. Scrooge!  The Global markets are closed tomorrow and we’re bound to have a very slow half day today – if you are looking for a continued Santa Clause rally on today’s...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs Are Everywhere Show No. 14: Matthew Wallenstein and Jason Young
Knowing your customers is the single biggest driver of startup success, and there's no substitute for getting out of the building to learn about their problems and needs. How and why Customer...
View ArticleBringing Innovation into Play
If I asked you to name an American hotbed of innovation, you would likely name locations such as Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley, and Austin, where technology startups define the culture and more broadly...
View ArticleIs Your Company Too Busy to Reclaim Its Creative Edge?
By Dawa Jones, Connecting Decisions to Creating Prosperity Imagine a company that was innovative and ahead of its competitors. It could be in any sector and operate anywhere or everywhere in the world....
View ArticleSecret Santa's Inflation Hedges for 2016
Merry Christmas!I hope you get everything you want this holiday season and, most importantly, I hope you have time to spend with your family.  I love waiting for my kids to wake up on Christmas morning...
View ArticleGoing Against the Flow: Chuck Cohn, Founder & CEO of Varsity Tutors
Chuck Cohn founded Varsity Tutors in 2007 at Washington University in St. Louis. Varsity Tutors is a live learning platform that connects students with personalized instruction to accelerate academic...
View ArticleThe Story of Lil' Bernie Is Everything Sanders Stands For
Even when he was back at 3 percent, I have never made it a secret that I am feeling the #bern. Through the time suck that is Instagram, I stumbled upon the best Christmas present I could ever ask for:...
View Article8 Startups Disrupting Multiple Industries From The World's Largest Startup...
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View ArticleYoung & Entrepreneurial: Second-Time Entrepreneur Shares The Realities of...
This article is part of the Young & Entrepreneurial series that features young startup founders and entrepreneurs. You can see past features here. To stay up to date with future posts, sign-up...
View ArticleVolkswagen Realizing the High Cost of Deception
Just three months after regulators discovered that Volkswagen employed a "defeat device" to fool emissions testing equipment, the German automaker reported a 2.2% drop in year-on-year sales in...
View Article7 Ways to Spice Up Your Email Signature
Your personal brand is important. From business cards to your LinkedIn summary, personal branding can make a positive impact on how you present yourself to others. Effective personal branding can even...
View Article6 Reasons Why Bigger Is Not Better In Your Startup
Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. In reality, more...
View ArticleTake Control Of Day One Onboarding Into A New Job
Our brains remember information "presented first and last, and have an inclination to forget the middle items." People will remember vividly their first impressions of you and their last interaction...
View Article9 Habits of Profoundly Influential People
Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves. We see only their outside. We see them...
View ArticleProduct Managers and Project Managers Have This in Common
I wrote an article recently about the differences between product management and project management. I was glad to read the feedback. There is a lot of confusion around these roles, and I hope I was...
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