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Making Sense of Yahoo's Puzzling Acquisition Strategy
Marissa Mayer is on the verge of completing 14 Yahoo acquisitions in just six months. Will she reinvent Yahoo? With Marissa Mayer at the helm, Yahoo is on an acquisition tear. One month after the company's $1.1 billion acquisition of...Show More Summary
Guerrilla Customer Research Is Easy
This simple approach to market research reveals what customers really want when they buy your product. (Hint: It's not the product.) Guerrilla customer research is easy. To prove it, we just need 4.5 minutes of your time. That's howShow More Summary
8 Mobile Cloud Apps to Streamline Your Workflow
Having trouble staying productive when you're not in the office? These apps improve your workflow by storing data in the cloud. Working in the cloud can feel like you're disconnected from reality. You don't have a desk or an office, so even those minor accouterments of business (say, paper clips and a stapler) are not available. Show More Summary
3 Signs You're Meant to Be a Leader
Not everyone is cut out to be a leader. But if you have these three traits, you might be a natural born leader. Reading leadership literature (including this column), you'd sometimes think that it was written in the stars that everyone has the potential to be an effective leader. Show More Summary
4 Big Lessons From Disruptive Start-Ups
Ignoring tradition can be a path to success--but only if you dare. When an entrepreneur challenges the status quo, he or she is either squashed and forgotten about or they hit a nerve and a paradigm shift occurs. The latter happens when the entrepreneur is a true disruptor. Show More Summary
4 Ways to Become More Relevant
Relevance is the only job security that exists in today's uncertain business world. We live in a time of vast and uneasy change, where economic, social and political turmoil has become the rule, rather than the exception. Nowhere is this clearer than in the world of business. Show More Summary
6 Reasons You Might Be Losing Blog Subscribers
In this brief video I talk about the importance of retention in building your blog’s traffic. Simply put, you can’t afford to lose readers if you want to grow. If you are losing readers, especially subscribers, it is usually for one of six reasons: Your titles don’t pull them in. You’re not using enough stories. [...]
Is This the Perfect Way to Hire?
You don't ask for resumes and you skip the traditional job posting. One founder says this four-step process trumps everything else she's tried. Hiring the right talent is vital to the success of your business. But busy entrepreneurs don't have time to waste sifting through dozens of resumes to evaluate candidates. Show More Summary
The Ten Virtues of Outstanding Leaders
Leadership and character are inseparable. In the Ten Virtues of Outstanding Leaders, philosophers Al Gini and Ronald Green, ask what is good leadership? They insist "that ethics, character, and virtue are essential to real leadership"...Show More Summary
10 Ways You're Killing Your Credibility
Credibility is everything in the business world. It's hard to build but easy to destroy. And your success depends on it. In the business world, your credibility is everything. It tells people whether they can count on you. It tells your customers, employees, bosses, and coworkers what they can expect from you. Show More Summary
Inside Edison Nation: A Willy Wonka-Style Warehouse of Inventions
At Edison Nation, you'll find high-tech design studios, 3-D printing labs, and ultra-modern offices bursting with products that have made millionaires out of amateur tinkerers. Exoskeletal body armor designed for protecting guards in prison riots. Show More Summary
Who Funds Silicon Valley? Not VCs
Government deserves credit for entrepreneurship in the U.S. But it needs to register a return. In recent months, a head-to-head contest has come to be seen as government vs. business. And according to one narrative, government is the problem. Show More Summary
Even Comedy News
I was curious to find out how John Oliver got the job of hosting the Daily Show while Jon Stewart is away for the summer. (If you don't watch it, don't worry, that's not really what this is about). While looking around, I found an interview of John Oliver in the New York Times talking about the preparation that John was doing to take over the show. Show More Summary
Why Modern-Day Whistleblowers Are Millennials
Twenty-somethings: Educated, narcissistic, altruistic. How Generation Y fits the psychological profile of classic whistleblowers. It's not easy to write about Millennials without sounding like a complete demagogue. Depending on whom you ask, we're either narcisstic or altruistic. Show More Summary
6 Best Things Companies Do on Facebook Today
Here's how to use a Facebook page to build your brand. Last week, I wrote about the worst things companies are doing on Facebook today. I showcased five companies that really just don't understand how to use the network for positive promotion--and, as a result, turn a lot of consumers off. Show More Summary
Things I Never Knew
I love finding out something new. The internet is the best thing that ever happened in my life. I can't wait more than 2 seconds to look it up when someone asks a question. Do you know how they make steel shapes (for boat propellors and golf clubs)? First, they make a wax mold. Show More Summary
Don't Get Fat and Happy: 3 Tips
Just because you can hire more staff doesn't mean you should. As a small business owner, you work long hours, dreaming of the day when you can finally grow your company and hire a proper staff. Then when that day arrives, it creates more problems than it solves. Show More Summary
Three Rules to Deliver the Best Possible Performance for as Long as Possible
Michael Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed went looking for those companies that were good enough for long enough to be considered exceptional and to rule out luck as the primary source of their performance. What they found they present in TheShow More Summary
Try to See Things My Way
This short film is from storyteller Jason Headley. It's titled It's Not About The Nail. "Don't try to fix it. I just need you to listen." Every man has heard these words. And they are the law of the land. No matter what.
4 Great Leadership Lessons from the Arts
Math and science are noble endeavors, but real leadership is taught in the arts. Here are four powerful lessons taught best by artists. The Tony Awards for Broadway Theater are Sunday night, showcasing artists across America. As much...Show More Summary
