International trade success tips and experiences

International trade success tips and experiences: Business without Borders and its social media group on LinkedIn are great resources for those who wish to maximize their productivity when exploring foreign markets.

4 Tips to Build Your Business for Long Term Success

4 Tips to Build Your Business for Long Term Success: While there are many industries resilient to the ebb and flow of the economy, the majority of small businesses can be defined in some way as cyclical -- or reliant on the general economy. When the economy takes a dive, many small businesses tend go with it.

4 Ways To Improve Your Resume and Get A Job in 2012

4 Ways To Improve Your Resume and Get A Job in 2012: It is 2012. It's time to get focused, and attack the job market.

10 Simple and Powerful Body Language Tips for 2012

10 Simple and Powerful Body Language Tips for 2012: The effective use of body language plays a key role in effective leadership communication. From “The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help – or Hurt – How You Lead,” here are ten tips I’ve learned during the past two decades of coaching leaders and their teams around the world:

5 Core Steps to a More Satisfying Career in 2012

5 Core Steps to a More Satisfying Career in 2012:  As a career coach, I spend a good deal of my time reviewing people’s lives and careers and making sense of the seeming randomness.  With clients who long for career change, I always start by asking them to complete my Career Path Self-Assessment, an in-depth survey which leads them to deeply examine their early selves, their previous jobs, and a variety of other important information.  From this array of data, I uncover core life themes, roadblocks, unique skills and talents, and lost passions.  I put this all together to identify more fulfilling and exciting professional directions.

Startups With More 'Go-To People' Lead the Pack

Startups With More 'Go-To People' Lead the Pack: Go-to people get things done. As an entrepreneur, you need these people, and you need to be one, if you expect your startup to be successful. That may be easier said than done, since resumes do not tell the story, and without real nurturing, they won’t stay around long.

Learning From Brilliant Mistakes

Learning From Brilliant Mistakes: Paul Schoemaker is a rigorous thinker who is not afraid to buck conventional wisdom. His book, Brilliant Mistakes, is living proof that he has no fear when it comes to confronting one of the most basic tenets of big business -- failure is a career killer.

6 Ways to Actually Keep Your New Year's Resolution

6 Ways to Actually Keep Your New Year's Resolution: It’s almost the New Year—the time to reflect on your aspirations and set meaningful goals to improve your health and happiness. Which sounds great, right? But how many of us actually keep our New Year’s resolutions past January?

How CEOs Can Build A Better Work Team In 2012

How CEOs Can Build A Better Work Team In 2012

Employers Can Be Great Resource for Workers with Ailing Parents

Employers Can Be Great Resource for Workers with Ailing Parents: As a parent ages, many adult children are left to pick up the pieces. The parent’s financial and medical needs increase and issues start to take over the adult child’s work time. Employers who can help their workers connect with elder care resources and allow for flexible schedules can retain hard workers and help them through a tough chapter in life.

How (and Why) to Ask for More

How (and Why) to Ask for More: Recently, Susannah Breslin over at Pink Slipped asked the question why women "low-ball" other women.

5 Ways To Free Yourself From A Leadership Rut

5 Ways To Free Yourself From A Leadership Rut: Leaders who are bored, in a rut, or otherwise find themselves anesthetized by the routine have a huge problem - they are not leading. Leadership is a game for the mentally agile, not the brain dead. Sound harsh? It's meant to. While most of the world has succumbed to

Mentors: A Young Entrepreneur's Secret Weapon

Mentors: A Young Entrepreneur's Secret Weapon: Finding a mentor when you're just starting up, can make all the difference. Here are eight tips for finding one.

Want Innovation? Go to a Tradeshow

Want Innovation? Go to a Tradeshow: Next week, as it does early each year, the world epicenter of innovation becomes Las Vegas in the form of International CES, the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow. More than 2,700 companies display their best ideas to more than 140,000 visitors – reporters, buyers, investors and potential business partners – in several cavernous exhibit halls and hotels. No matter the reason, everyone who attends International CES has chosen to invest precious time and money. Their return is more than entertainment; it is business – and an awesome and inspiring display of the future.

4 Tips to Build Your Business for Long Term Success

4 Tips to Build Your Business for Long Term Success: While there are many industries resilient to the ebb and flow of the economy, the majority of small businesses can be defined in some way as cyclical -- or reliant on the general economy. When the economy takes a dive, many small businesses tend go with it.

2012 Success - It's As Easy As 1-2-3

2012 Success - It's As Easy As 1-2-3: A new year brings new challenges.

Quit Yelling and Start Communicating

Quit Yelling and Start Communicating: Have you ever observed an interaction between two people who speak different languages? Oftentimes, they speak louder and louder as the conversation progresses — unconsciously hoping that turning up the volume will cause the other person to eventually get the message.

10 Financial Innovations That Make Your Life Easier in 2012

10 Financial Innovations That Make Your Life Easier in 2012: Put the checkbook down and step away from that Excel sheet.

9 Tips from the trenches: Wisdom from Job Seekers and Job Keepers

9 Tips from the trenches: Wisdom from Job Seekers and Job Keepers: If you’re looking for a job, how do you distinguish yourself from the rest? If you’ve got a job, how do you keep it and get ahead?

The 5 Love Languages: Office Edition

The 5 Love Languages: Office Edition: Like it or not, your job is kind of like a romantic relationship. Your co-workers and clients see you at your best (your presentation to the SVP) and your worst (pulling your hair out at the end of a 70-hour week). You’ve made a commitment to spend every day with them (at least for a couple of years). And, just like marriages, business relationships take work to make them last over time.