Interview Body Language Mistakes That Can Cost You The Job

Interview Body Language Mistakes That Can Cost You The Job: Your perfectly manicured résumé, flawless cover letter and brilliant responses to tough interview questions might make you a strong job candidate?but forget to smile, slouch in your chair or fail to make eye contact during the interview, and you could be out of the running.

Stephen R. Covey Revisits The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey Revisits The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: I caught up with Stephen R. Covey to have him reflect on his worldwide bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, over two decades later. First written in 1989, it has now sold over twenty million copies in 38 languages! Dr. Covey has been recognized as one of Time Magazine's 25 Most Influential Americans. He is the co-founder and vice chairman of FranklinCovey, the leading global professional services firm with offices in 123 countries. He is also the author of The 8th Habit and his forthcoming book is called "The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems." It will be released on October 4th. In this interview, he reviews and emphasizes many of the points made in his book and it is truly inspirational and timeless advice.

10 Tips To Improve Family Office Investing

10 Tips To Improve Family Office Investing: Wealthy individuals and family offices have, generally through hard work and sometimes just plain luck, been blessed with financial success. Yet contrary to popular belief, they often are not nearly as successful when it comes to investing their money. When I first began working with the wealthy (as opposed to my pension fund clients) I was surprised to find that they were so prone to make, shall we say, less-than-optimal investment decisions. I presumed that given their extensive capabilities and resources, these investors were relatively astute in investment matters. Not necessarily.

How to Estimate Startup Costs

How to Estimate Startup Costs: Get an idea of how much money you'll need by creating three quick lists and making a few educated guesses.

3 Bad Team-Building Exercises For Businesses

3 Bad Team-Building Exercises For Businesses: There may be no I in team but that doesn't mean that "I" will still want to participate.

Is Your Culture Too Nice?

Is Your Culture Too Nice?: Do you avoid conflict? If you do, you're not alone. Conflict avoidance is one of the most common characteristics of corporate cultures. At the same time it is one of the most pernicious and dangerous sources of unintentional complexity in organizational life.

Want a Simple Way to Double or Triple Your Own Productivity? Here's How.

Want a Simple Way to Double or Triple Your Own Productivity? Here's How.: Very few of us are as productive as we could be. We want to be focused with laser-like precision on critical tasks and make the best, most efficient use of our time.  Instead, we get distracted by coworkers, lost in our Inboxes, and too absorbed by unimportant aspects of a single project when we?d be better off turning our attention to other things.

A Business Plan Tool That Helps Size Up Your Odds of Success

A Business Plan Tool That Helps Size Up Your Odds of Success: Enloop pushes the emotional clouds out of the startup process to give entrepreneurs a clear view of their business plan.

5 Easy Ways To Fight The Urge To Splurge

5 Easy Ways To Fight The Urge To Splurge

Pivot or Persevere? The Key to Startup Success

Pivot or Persevere? The Key to Startup Success: Perseverance can be overrated as an entrepreneurial trait. Knowing when to change course to test out a new approach might be even more important.

How to Score on the Entrepreneur Likability Scale

How to Score on the Entrepreneur Likability Scale: You don?t have to be likeable to everyone to be a great entrepreneur, just to the people who count. Of course, we can all point to apparent exceptions, like Ted Turner or Larry Ellison, who are sometimes seen as lions, downright predators, or even jerks. Yet I?m told that even these guys are considered quite likable by an intimate group of business and personal associates.

Five Hidden Fees To Watch For On Vacation

Five Hidden Fees To Watch For On Vacation:
As summer vacations end and the kids go back to school, resorts, hotels and airlines gear up to promote fall deals. Known as a "shoulder" season that follows the busy summer months, fall can be a great time to take advantage of cooler temperatures and travel bargains. But before you

Should you trust your gut? Testing your decision-making instincts

Should you trust your gut? Testing your decision-making instincts: Do you know when you should trust your gut instinct when making a decision? Learn quick tests you can use to find out if you should trust your gut.

Top 10 Financial Tips For Starting A Family

Top 10 Financial Tips For Starting A Family

How to Network Your Way to World-Class Mentors and Teachers: The Thiel Fellowship Lecture, Part 3

How to Network Your Way to World-Class Mentors and Teachers: The Thiel Fellowship Lecture, Part 3: So we just learned now about giving advice. The next thing you can give, and always be giving, is connections. This is huge, huge, huge, huge.

How to Network Your Way to World-Class Mentors and Teachers: The Thiel Fellowship Lecture, Part 2

How to Network Your Way to World-Class Mentors and Teachers: The Thiel Fellowship Lecture, Part 2: There are two main things you have to give people you'd like to connect with and bring into your network. The first thing that all of us have to give is advice. Now, again, this might sound a little funny. You're looking to this person to get advice, so why would you give them advice?  What would you have to give?

How to Network Your Way to World-Class Mentors and Teachers: The Thiel Fellowship Lecture, Part 1

How to Network Your Way to World-Class Mentors and Teachers: The Thiel Fellowship Lecture, Part 1: In 2010, PayPal cofounder and first outside Facebook investor Peter Thiel made waves when he announced the Thiel Fellowship, a program to pay twenty people under the age of twenty $100,000 each to leave formal schooling and learn in the real world, not in the classroom.

Credit Card Alternatives if You Have Bad Credit

Credit Card Alternatives if You Have Bad Credit:
Although it's harder to get credit than it was a few years ago, it's still possible to get a credit card if you've stumbled financially. Here are three alternatives if you've been turned down for traditional credit cards: Subprime Credit Cards These cards are marketed to people with

7 Lessons To Learn From A Market Downturn

7 Lessons To Learn From A Market Downturn: You can never really understand investing until you weather a market downturn. The valuable lessons learned can help you through the bad times and can be applied to your portfolio when the economy recovers. Listed below are some common investor experiences during tough economic times and the lessons each investor can come away with after surviving the events. (To learn more, read "Market Problems? Blame Investors.")

5 creative ways for a small business to save

5 creative ways for a small business to save: You can't control the economy, but you can control what you spend on your company.

10 Ways a Bad Credit Score Can Hurt You

10 Ways a Bad Credit Score Can Hurt You

Want a Home-Based Job? Expert Tips To Help

Want a Home-Based Job? Expert Tips To Help: There’s a certain appeal to working from home, particularly if you’re starting a second career, or kicking off a “working in retirement” sideline.

How to Hold Effective Talent Conversations

How to Hold Effective Talent Conversations: By Roland Smith and Michael Campbell

Planning For A Second Career

Planning For A Second Career: The most successful career switchers take years to learn new skills, network and prepare financially. Here's how to plan for a second career.

Two Quick Financial Moves Small Business Should Make in this Slow Economy

Two Quick Financial Moves Small Business Should Make in this Slow Economy: As a small business owner, it?s hard not to notice the headlines of high government debt, low-interest rates, and of course, the slow-moving economy.  So what moves can put you in a better position to prosper in these times as well as over the next five years? Following are a few quick and easy ones you can knock-down right away.

How To Pick A Financial Advisor

How To Pick A Financial Advisor: The trick is to find good help that creates added value.

WOW Your Way to Better Results!

WOW Your Way to Better Results!: How many times have you had this happen within the past year?

Ten Tips For Getting A Fair Price On A Home

Ten Tips For Getting A Fair Price On A Home: Real estate prices have fallen from their peak, but there are ways to save even more when making the big purchase.

Small Business: What To Do Before The Hurricane Hits The Fan

Small Business: What To Do Before The Hurricane Hits The Fan: Five steps small business owners should take before disaster blows in.

The 48-Hour Startup

The 48-Hour Startup: Garage48, a series of weekend workshops for entrepreneurs, helps ambitious techies launch a venture by Sunday night

Top 5 Mistakes Job Hunters Make

Top 5 Mistakes Job Hunters Make:
The job search game has changed quite a bit over the past decade; applications are now processed online, and social media accounts are becoming just as valuable in reviewing applicants as the actual resume. Before you presume that the old rules don't apply, however, check out these classic errors that could

3 Surprising Facts About Self-Control

3 Surprising Facts About Self-Control: Many of the goals we have the most trouble reaching have one thing in common: the need to resist temptation.  Trying to ignore the powerful allure of the forbidden cigarette, doughnut, or latest budget-blowing buying impulse requires willpower.  You might expect very successful people, who presumably have boatloads of willpower, to be particularly good at not giving in.  But if anything, they seem to be even more susceptible to temptation than the rest of us.   Quick ? name a famous or powerful person that doesn?t have a well-known weakness for something.   I?ll wait.

How Compelling Is Your Leadership Product

How Compelling Is Your Leadership Product: What is a leader? A mentor once told me a leader is someone who can find others who will follow him (or her).

How To Have Fewer, Better Meetings

How To Have Fewer, Better Meetings: Meetings can be the bane of corporate life. Senior leaders and managers typically spend more than half their time in meetings. In one survey, a whopping 85 percent of executives said they were dissatisfied with the efficiency and effectiveness of meetings at their companies.

When Mentors Matter More Than Money

When Mentors Matter More Than Money: More public and private entities are supporting formal mentorship programs that pair startups with seasoned entrepreneurs

The Five Effective Habits of Innovation Leaders: A New Perspective

The Five Effective Habits of Innovation Leaders: A New Perspective: Last week when Forbes published the list of 100 most innovative companies, an appraisal of innovative leaders came in the pack. Professors Dyer, Gregersen and Christiansen, all eminent in the field of innovation, researched those companies to find out what made their leaders tick - or more to the point what made them tick in innovative ways. What does the analysis reveal?

Why Failure May Be Your Key to Marketing Success

Why Failure May Be Your Key to Marketing Success: Master motivator Zig Ziglar once said, ?Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.?

Tech Startup Secrets of Bill Campbell, Coach of Silicon Valley

Tech Startup Secrets of Bill Campbell, Coach of Silicon Valley:
Few people are as important to the signature companies of Silicon Valley, from Apple to Google, as Bill Campbell. The former Apple and Intuit executive has long spent his time essentially serving as the coach for the most promising tech startups in the Valley (and beyond). He doesn't often speak publicly, so I wanted to hear what he had to say in a rare onstage interview at online publishing network AlwaysOn's Silicon Valley Innovation Summit today. Here are some of the highlights of the interview with Michael Moe, CEO of GSV Asset Management, including some interesting tidbits about the genesis of Google+, what he thinks of some of the Valley's leading figures, and what Campbell considers his best investment (and it's not a tech company).

Eight Ways To Improve Your Credit Score

Eight Ways To Improve Your Credit Score: A few simple steps can put you on the path to creditworthiness--or prevent you from falling off.

10 Toughest Interview Questions: Answered

10 Toughest Interview Questions: Answered: Here, the 10 toughest (but most telling) interview questions, and best of all?how to answer them.

10 Steps To Happiness At Work

10 Steps To Happiness At Work:
Here's a pop quiz for anyone who's miserable at work. Which action has the biggest chance of improving your happiness? (A) Getting a promotion, (B) seeing your professional nemesis move to the Mongolia office, (C) focusing on the positive aspects of your job and trying to ignore the negative or

A Simple Way To Increase Your Nest Egg

A Simple Way To Increase Your Nest Egg: Many workers have the option to remove their money from potentially high-cost workplace retirement plans before retirement.

How To Know When It Is Time To Leave Your Job

How To Know When It Is Time To Leave Your Job: By Caroline Ghosn

Eight Steps For Addressing the IT Management Crisis

Eight Steps For Addressing the IT Management Crisis: On Monday, I presented the argument that IT is facing accelerating challenges that are going to cause a crisis. (See ?The Coming Crisis of IT Management?.) The problem is that the informal way that IT has been managed cannot keep up with the pace of change, increased complexity, and loss of control now facing most IT departments. The IT monopoly is over. CIOs and IT managers are not trained in more sophisticated techniques that treat IT like a business and can adapt to the loss of control. When they are, they lack the tools to implement them. Getting more management resources is going to be a tough sell. The worst part of this is that fighting the battle to keep things from slipping into chaos leaves no time for technologists to exhibit the leadership in applying new technology to help implement strategy.

Bad Waiter Advice Doesn't Have To Ruin Your Business Meal

Bad Waiter Advice Doesn't Have To Ruin Your Business Meal: In these dog days of summer, when business is a bit slower, air conditioning is welcome, and summer?s bounty makes the specials on the menu still more enticing, many of us are meeting up with clients and colleagues we haven?t seen in some time to have the kind of relaxed, no-agenda dinner that allows creativity to flow.

Amazon's 4 Keys to Spectacular Revenue Growth

Amazon's 4 Keys to Spectacular Revenue Growth: Revenue growth is a beautiful thing.

Premature Aging Signs You Shouldn't Overlook

Premature Aging Signs You Shouldn't Overlook:
Sonja Morgan, cast member of Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of New York City, has always considered herself relatively healthy. She takes care of herself, does yoga and eats well. But at age 47, she saw the signs of age creeping up: Dry skin, cravings for salty snacks, irritability

A Survival Map in the Age of Product Recalls

A Survival Map in the Age of Product Recalls: If 2007 was the Year of the Recall, welcome to the Decade of the Recall.

3 Powerful Skills You Must Have to Succeed in Sales

3 Powerful Skills You Must Have to Succeed in Sales: by Sharon Michaels

How To Give A Great Speech

How To Give A Great Speech: Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement address at Stanford University has been viewed more than 4 million times on YouTube. Six years after he delivered it, a text version still flies around the Web. The speech is as powerful for its message--stay hungry, stay foolish--as it is for its structure and delivery. "Today I want to tell you three stories from my life," says Jobs. "That's it. No big deal. Just three stories." And with that, viewers (and readers) are hooked.

How to Delegate Like Donald Trump

How to Delegate Like Donald Trump: Image via Wikipedia
Sometimes the simple stuff is the most powerful.

With Great Startups It's All About The Execution

With Great Startups It's All About The Execution: A startup begins with a great idea, but all too often, that?s where it ends. Ideas have to be implemented well to get the desired results. Good implementation requires a plan, and a good plan and good operational decisions come from good people. That?s why investors invest in entrepreneurs, rather than ideas.

How To Force Yourself To Be Creative

How To Force Yourself To Be Creative: Sometimes (okay a lot of the time), the life of a creative is less about inspiration and more about needing to get x done so that y can happen. In many cases, x equals producing something (a story, a pitch, a design, an order of 2000 butterfly magnets) and y equals getting paid and/or feeling like less of a freelance fraud. So, what happens when you need to be creative under pressure? Can you force yourself to produce when a muse is the furthest thing from your mind? Yes. Here's how:

10 Steps to an Effective Apology

10 Steps to an Effective Apology: Just last week, Joe Nocera writing for the New York Times apologized for calling the Republican side of the aisle "terrorists." Yesterday, I apologized here for posting an untrue story about the Indiana Corner's Office  - based on the Defense of Marriage Act - refusing to release to her lesbian partner the body of a woman killed in the recent tragic stage collapse.

Ten Signs You're Depressed But Don't Know It

Ten Signs You're Depressed But Don't Know It: It's a subtle, debilitating and increasingly rampant affliction. Here's how to detect it and let the healing begin.

10 Ways That Being More Positive Improves Your Career (and Your Life)

10 Ways That Being More Positive Improves Your Career (and Your Life)

How to grow your sales faster than the economy

How to grow your sales faster than the economy: Three new books explain how to swipe market share from rivals, why some brands stand out, and the sneaky tricks great marketers use.

Six Sneaky Ways Coupons Make You Spend More

Six Sneaky Ways Coupons Make You Spend More: Consumers are using more coupons than they did before the recession, and 37.4% are using them "to stretch a limited grocery budget out of necessity," according to NCH Marketing Inc.'s "2010 Annual Consumer Survey".

The One Skill They Don't Teach You in B-School

The One Skill They Don't Teach You in B-School: An MBA from the most prestigious business school in the world will not help you overcome poor communication skills.  That?s why I enjoy giving presentations to business students who have transformative ideas but need to develop their communication skills (here?s a 20-minute excerpt from a presentation I recently delivered at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley).

10 Things to do After you Lose your Job.

10 Things to do After you Lose your Job.: Part Two of a Survivor?s Guide to your own Personal Black Swan Moment

Tips for Payroll Outsourcing

Tips for Payroll Outsourcing: Does your business use an outside payroll service?  Are you thinking of using one?

6 Ways To Give Family And Friends Financial Aid

6 Ways To Give Family And Friends Financial Aid: Between the stock market roller coaster and the announcement of massive layoffs at corporate giants like Bank of America, HSBC, Merck and Pfizer, those "lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer" that Nat King Cole sang about disappointed a lot of people this year. As Fall approaches, plenty of folks are wondering how they're going to pay their bills.

Tips for Payroll Outsourcing

Tips for Payroll Outsourcing: Does your business use an outside payroll service?  Are you thinking of using one?

Three Ways to Think Big and Start Small

Three Ways to Think Big and Start Small: Taking the plunge into entrepreneurship is simultaneously exhilarating and paralyzing. If you?re like most entrepreneurs you?ve been living and breathing your business idea for what feels like forever, growing its potential in your head with each passing moment. And despite the anticipation and excitement, when the time comes for action, you feel stuck. Where do you even begin? How do you go about building an empire, changing an industry, or creating a legendary business?

Three Questions that Help Me Live a Fulfilling Life

Three Questions that Help Me Live a Fulfilling Life: I am on a plane with my wife Eleanor as we fly back from our once-a-year-without-children vacation. It was, for us, the perfect week. After years of planning vacations, we've finally figured out how to reliably create a meaningful, fun, fulfilling week.

What Do You Need for a Commercial Loan?

What Do You Need for a Commercial Loan?: Working with financial professionals across America, Sageworks has learned what business owners must do if they want to compete for a commercial loan.

10 Ways to Add Sizzle to Your Online Marketing

10 Ways to Add Sizzle to Your Online Marketing: These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. You have to build a web presence with marketing content to get visibility above the 50 million other new websites created every year, and attract the customers you need. But most entrepreneurs don?t know where to start.

Ten Myths About Social Networking For Business

Ten Myths About Social Networking For Business: Common misconceptions and what to do about them.

10 Common Money Wasters

10 Common Money Wasters

8 Telltale Signs of a Good or Bad Job Candidate

8 Telltale Signs of a Good or Bad Job Candidate: I've interviewed hundreds of job candidates over the years and have witnessed some of the best and worst behavior that has instantly affected a person's chances of getting the job.  Based on my experience talking to folks for open positions -- from entry to senior level -- here are some telltale signs that someone will make a good or bad hire.

Creating an Idea Culture

Creating an Idea Culture: Dave Trott is a legend and an advertising hero of the old school (not Don Draper old school). He has an uncanny knack of getting to the heart of the matter in a really engaging way. He writes that 89 percent of advertising is never noticed or remembered.

How to Build Credibility as a Young Entrepreneur

How to Build Credibility as a Young Entrepreneur: Five steps to make your business a success when experience is not on your side.

Get Clear On Winning: It's Personal!

Get Clear On Winning: It's Personal!: Last month I had the opportunity to speak at Microsoft?s annual Worldwide Partner Conference. As one of the featured business session speakers, I addressed a lively audience on two of my favorite subjects: the importance of getting clear on winning, and engaging employees in reaching the organization?s destination.

Driving Principles: Insights from Successful Entrepreneurs

Driving Principles: Insights from Successful Entrepreneurs: Looking for inspiration? You'll get it from the stories of these entrepreneurs who have turned challenges into opportunity.

How Do I Cut Through the Noise on Social Media?

How Do I Cut Through the Noise on Social Media?: Starr Hall on how to identify and research your target audience on social sites.

Does Your Home Business Need Insurance?

Does Your Home Business Need Insurance?: Here's a look at the most common types of coverage for home-based companies and what make sense for your business.

How to Connect Powerfully With People Using Body Language

How to Connect Powerfully With People Using Body Language: Body language -- good or bad -- can make or break a meeting, a conversation, a presentation.  Here's how to use it to connect powerfully with other people.  The podcast is just under 7 minutes and it's based on my book Trust Me:  Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma.  Enjoy!

How to Handle a Horrible Boss

How to Handle a Horrible Boss:

Video

KRON TV interviewed me on the body language of horrible bosses -- and what you can do about it. I'd love to hear from you. How have you handled a horrible boss?

Five Overlooked Legal Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make

Five Overlooked Legal Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make: When starting a business, details can get lost in the excitement of a new venture. Here are the top legal mistakes unwittingly made by new business owners -- and how to avoid them.

Zig Ziglar's Tips on Becoming Successful in Life

Zig Ziglar's Tips on Becoming Successful in Life: I recently spoke to Zig Ziglar, a motivational teacher and trainer who has traveled the world over, delivering his messages of humor, hope, and encouragement. As a talented author and speaker, his international appeal has transcended every color, culture, and career. Recognized by his peers as the quintessential motivational genius of our times, Zig Ziglar's unique delivery style and powerful messages have earned him many honors, and today he is considered one of the most versatile authorities on the science of human potential. 10 of his 28  books have been on the best-seller lists, and his titles have been translated into more than 38 languages and dialects. In this interview, he explains which sales tactics work most effectively, how to become a motivational speaker, and more.

How Unbeatable Is Your Resume? Q&A With Resume Expert Tony Beshara

How Unbeatable Is Your Resume? Q&A With Resume Expert Tony Beshara: I receive questions almost every week asking for tips on résumé writing so I decided to turn to one of the top recruiters in the United States for a discussion on how to build a résumé that will get you noticed, help you get interviews, and ultimately, get you hired.

How Small Businesses Can Reach Mom's Wallet

How Small Businesses Can Reach Mom's Wallet: The poor economy changed families' spending habits. Astute companies can use the shift to pick up new customers

Small Business Lessons from the Hottest Retailers

Small Business Lessons from the Hottest Retailers: Here's how some retailers managed to thrive despite the nation's economic malaise.

Startups, Avoid 10 Common Million-Dollar Mistakes

Startups, Avoid 10 Common Million-Dollar Mistakes: It?s a well-accepted axiom in the investor community that entrepreneurs learn more from their failures than their successes. Thus a well-explained startup failure often can actually improve your odds of funding in the next go-round. Yet, there is no doubt that the best strategy is to learn from someone else?s mistakes, so you can enjoy the millions that someone else lost in learning.

Build a Website That Drives More Business

Build a Website That Drives More Business: First, determine what your business does best, then develop a strategy for a site that will show clients why they should hire you, rather than your competition

7 Tips For A Better Retirement

7 Tips For A Better Retirement: What retirees can do now for a better retirement later.

When Buying a Shelf Corporation Doesn't Pay

When Buying a Shelf Corporation Doesn't Pay: As states streamline incorporation times, these business structures aren't necessary for most entrepreneurs seeking to start companies, consultants say

How to Divorce-Proof Your Company

How to Divorce-Proof Your Company: If your marriage is headed toward a breakup, these seven strategies can help protect your business if you end up in divorce court.

Three Tips to Start a Consulting Business

Three Tips to Start a Consulting Business: Ready to use your industry expertise to strike out on your own? Consider these tactics to get your business off to a successful start.

Why Letting Yourself Make Mistakes Means Making Fewer of Them

Why Letting Yourself Make Mistakes Means Making Fewer of Them: Think back to the last time your boss assigned you a new project or task at work, or the last time you tried to tackle something really difficult in your personal life.  How did it feel?  I?m guessing scary, right?

Sales: How to educate your clients

Sales: How to educate your clients: Chances are, you’ve got your firm’s value proposition down cold. You know the benefits that set you apart from the competition, and you know why you’re unique in the marketplace. But do you know how to make your customers understand that?

How NOT to Manage a Crisis

How NOT to Manage a Crisis
In the past three months, Representatives David Wu (D-Oregon) and Anthony Weiner (D-New York) were forced to resign their congressional seats for inappropriate sexual behavior. Although each man had a different form of misconduct, each of them had two factors in common that provide a striking lesson in crisis management:

How To Get A Job When You Don't Know Anyone

How To Get A Job When You Don't Know Anyone: Despite having more than a few people put in a word for me over the years, it turns out that every full-time job I?ve ever gotten has had zero to do with networking, having connections, knowing someone who knows someone, etc.  These non-networked jobs have included:

How to Build Brand Loyalty in a Digital Marketplace

How to Build Brand Loyalty in a Digital Marketplace
Cultivating, and then nurturing, brand loyalty have always been top priorities for marketers.

Are You Wasting Money on Management Training?

Are You Wasting Money on Management Training?
Most everyone would agree that the training and development of managers is a critical component of success for organizations ? especially if you believe that a stronger leadership team makes a competitive difference. Yet despite its importance, when times are tough, management training and development budgets are among the first to be cut as we saw during the financial crisis.  More often than not the reason behind this apparent contradiction is the lack of a clear connection between training and results. Without this connection, cost-conscious executives at best view management development as a "nice" but discretionary expense and at worst as unnecessary time off.

Great Ideas: Are you too smart to start a successful business?

Great Ideas: Are you too smart to start a successful business?: If you’re super smart, then logically you’d be the best possible candidate to launch a company, right? Maybe not. Investment banker and business strategist Carol Roth argues that you’ll probably find it harder to succeed than someone with less brainpower would

Ten E-mail Habits that Send Wrong Message

Ten E-mail Habits that Send Wrong Message

Selling Your Business 101

Selling Your Business 101: How to prepare so you’ll get the highest price when you sell your firm

5 Tips For Using Credit Cards Abroad

5 Tips For Using Credit Cards Abroad If you travel much outside the United States, it pays to be choosy about which credit cards you use abroad. Here are five key things to know about using credit cards in foreign countries. 1. Watch out for credit card foreign transaction fees. Don't be ...

How to Communicate Powerfully

How to Communicate Powerfully: In this, the 3rd podcast in the series from Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma, I focus on the 4 steps of the title -- how to align your body language and content for effective communication.  The podcast lasts about 5 minutes.  Enjoy!