Leadership
The Really Big Guide Of Small Business Success Tips
- Mon, 21 May 2012
WATCH Leadership
In business, size does matter, especially if that size is small. Independent businesses with fewer than 500 employees represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms, according to the SBA’s Office of Advocacy. They employ about half of all private sector employees, which make up about 43 percent of the country’s private payroll. And more than half are based out of an owner’s home. Incidentally, don’t knock the domicile as a business incub...
8 Rules For Creating A Passionate Work Culture
- Mon, 21 May 2012
WATCH Leadership
Several years ago I was in the Thomson Building in Toronto. I went down the hall to the small kitchen to get myself a cup of coffee. Ken Thomson was there, making himself some instant soup. At the time, he was the ninth-richest man in the world, worth approximately $19.6 billion. Enough, certainly, to afford a nice lunch. I looked at the soup he was stirring. “It suits me just fine,” he said, smiling.
Thomson understood value. Neighbors reported...
Predictable Time Off: The Team Solution To Overcoming Constant Work Connection
- Mon, 21 May 2012
WATCH Leadership
Is everyone at your office sleeping with their smartphone? Here's how to break the habit--as an organization.
Reflecting on his relationship with his smartphone, one manager pronounced: “I love the thing and I hate it at the same time. The reason I love it is that it gives me so much power. And the reason I hate it is that it has so much power over me.”
Smartphones and other wireless devices give us the power to stay connected and free us from...
Why You Should Start a Company In... Greenville, South Carolina
- Mon, 21 May 2012
WATCH Leadership
The clackety-clack of weaving looms has long given way to automotive and turbine manufacturing in Greenville, SC, but the little urbane city in the foothills of the Blue Ridge is also home to a growing tech community that's about to bust out.
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New Ideas, New Markets, New Insights
It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around...
Anytime Fitness CEO Chuck Runyon's 4 Rules For Tattoo-Level Brand Loyalty
- Mon, 21 May 2012
WATCH Leadership
As I write this, a fitness club owner in South Carolina named Radley West is undergoing surgery to donate a kidney to a man named Ryan Brooke. Ryan isn’t her husband, son, brother, or cousin. He’s a member of her club. And while the doctors won’t be thinking about this background as they operate on Radley, they probably will notice a strange tattoo on her right wrist.
Which reminds me of Betty Lou, a 71-year-old resident of Plover, Wisconsin....
Dude, This Diplomat's No Stiff
- Mon, 21 May 2012
WATCH Leadership
From Bogota to Tunisia, “bad diplomat” Suzanne Philion has spent a decade shaking up old-school notions of a career in Foreign Service.
You know the picture of Hillary Clinton on the plane, texting with shades on? The behind-the-scenes image became an Internet meme in part because it was so unexpected, speaking volumes about a new era of American power abroad: cool, technologically cutting-edge, and female. Suzanne Philion, a 34-year-old who...
Robert Caro's Lessons From Lyndon B. Johnson About How To Lead In A Crisis
- Mon, 21 May 2012
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Since 1982, historian Robert Caro has been chronicling the life of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. The first three volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson series were met with wide acclaim.
The third volume, Master of the Senate, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. Now, Caro has released volume four: The Passage of Power, which focuses on Johnson in the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination in November 1963. Fast...
Top 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week
- Sat, 19 May 2012
WATCH Leadership
Here are the stories you read, shared, tweeted, and pinned this week.
We released our annual Most Creative People list this week. As usual, it was wildly popular. Though we have decided not to include its content in this week's top 10, you can read about it here (in case you missed it). We have some incredible new tech stories this week that include defying gravity and circumnavigating the globe using nothing but solar energy. We also have some...
GameStop At A Crossroads
- Fri, 18 May 2012
WATCH Leadership
The game industry is entering a digital future. To maintain a place in it, retail chain GameStop has scaled the used game buy-back model that first made it a success--now it's buying used companies, too.
Odds are, when you think of GameStop, you picture yourself trading in a handful of old titles to buy a new release or one of the retailers "pre-owned" games. You imagine yourself in that physical store. Now GameStop is relying that reputation as...
In Daymond John's World, For Every Startup, A Sexy Celebrity Pitchman
- Fri, 18 May 2012
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"I think tech is lacking sexiness," says Shark Tank personality and FUBU founder Daymond John. "I want to bring my understanding of lifestyle and culture to Silicon Valley." He's getting started by pairing socially savvy entertainer Pitbull with club-booking startup EzVIP.
In William Shatner's 14-year reign at Priceline, he became one of the best-known celebrity spokespeople of all time. Not only did the 81-year-old join a select group of...