China Is Headed for a Debt Meltdown Like the U.S. in 2008 -- But Worse
World attention has focused in recent months on an acute refugee crisis that occasioned by the mass migration to Europe of hundreds of thousands now fleeing the Syrian civil war. Less noticed has been...
View ArticleWill the Rise of Delivery Cause Some Restaurants to Fall?
In the past few years, delivery has exploded with more restaurants aiming to provide the option to their customers -Â and for good reason. According to the National Restaurant Association's 2015...
View ArticleThe Secret Ingredient to Sustainable Success
"When I worked at NASA, I brought together global leaders to predict the future of our planet based on geo-spacial data that has been collected from around the world," said Kevin Montgomery, Ph.D.,...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup: Realpolitik Destabilizes the World
What lurks behind the incapacity to resolve the destabilizing crises of North Korea's latest nuclear test and Saudi Arabia's frontal clash with Iran are the realpolitik considerations of Russia, China...
View Article5 Ways to Become a Better Leader in 2016
Leaders are not winning a popularity contest of late. Even though companies spent record amounts investing in leadership programs in the past decade, a recent poll by Harvard University found that 70...
View ArticleeCredable Offers Incredible Opportunity for Credit Invisible
For those that are one of the 45 million adults without a credit file or that don't have enough credit history to be scored using traditional scoring models I have some great news to report today!...
View ArticleInterview with Shira Abel on Behavioral Engineering
I recently attended a fascinating talk on the topic of Behavioral Engineering by my friend Shira Abel. Post that talk, I had an opportunity to ask her a few questions on the same topic. Here is the...
View ArticleBranded Content: The Currency of Connection
The rise of "content" is a fundamental 21st century marketing phenomenon. But is "advertising," deliberate messages broadcast at one time to swathes of people, dead? Certainly not. Marketers do not...
View ArticleGet Alignment Around a Burning Imperative in Your First Month at a New Job
Make time in your early days at a new job to get alignment around a burning imperative -- mission, vision, values, objectives, goals, strategies and plans. Experienced, successful leaders inevitably...
View ArticleScholarships? Act Now!
Looking for free money for college? If your names is Zolp, or your parents work for Burger King, Pizza Hut or Home Depot, or are members of the "Germans from Russia Heritage Society" -- or if you're...
View ArticleObama's Weak 'Pay Transparency' Executive Order
Employment lawyers are scrambling to help their clients comply with President Obama's new "transparency in pay" executive order, effective this week. They needn't worry. It's far too weak to harm...
View Article[Video] You Will Never Achieve Your Dreams Until You Do This
Are you hustling?Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia, is confident that you are not hustling. Vaynerchuck states that 99% of his followers proclaim they're hustling, but they're not.At first, I was...
View Article7 Things That Make Great Bosses Unforgettable
Once again, Google has topped Fortune magazine's list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. This marks Google's second year in a row at the top of the list, and their sixth victory overall. Most...
View ArticleThe 5 Phases of Idea Creation in Startups
Ideas are what drive startups--from inception to success--but understanding the process of idea generation is the first step of the process. Without ideas, there would be no startups. It takes an idea...
View ArticleI Took Control Of My Biological Clock At Age 30
Beating the clock with HCG -- one of the hormones used in cryopreservation.My San Francisco apartment is generally stacked with liquor, laptops and leftovers from last weeks' dinner party. But for now,...
View ArticlePreach v Practice: The Curse of Fake Content Marketers
Though widely debated when its birth actually was, marketing has existed for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Peculiarly it was only recognised as a business discipline as recently as 1884, with...
View ArticleHow to Save Money on Big Expenses in 2016
Though we're not even halfway through January, for many of us new years resolutions are quickly becoming a distant memory. According to data from StatisticBrain.com, 29 percent of resolutions don't...
View Article7 Ways to Set Your Twitter Feed on Fire
Twitter has become an essential tool for entrepreneurs. A 2010 study done by Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research Technologies showed that 67 percent of some 1,000 adults surveyed were more...
View Article2016's Market Opening and Future Situation
Carnage; that is the only word that can be used to describe the opening to the global stock-markets at the beginning of 2016. The S & P 500 index lost $1.05 trillion in market cap. The Shanghai...
View ArticleThe Next Wave of Retail
The Global economy experienced sluggish growth in 2015 with large retailers like Fossil, Michael Kors, and Macy's experiencing dips in their revenue earning the unsavory distinction as some of the...
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