Final Cut: Words to Strike from Your Resume

Final Cut: Words to Strike from Your Resume: Before you add another bullet point to your resume, consider this: Crafting the perfect document isn’t always about what you add in—the best changes may lie in what you take out.

Five Components of BRAVE Leadership

Five Components of BRAVE Leadership: Leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best – together –to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. The strongest leaders take a BRAVE approach to every one of their New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plans by examining their organization’s behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment.

4 Reasons Why Influence is the New Job Currency

4 Reasons Why Influence is the New Job Currency: “There are so many conversations taking place about careers, leadership and management that it’s hard to decide which one to be a part of.”   I hear this from people all of the time; especially those out of work who just don’t know what to believe or which voices to follow.   As we transition from a centralized to decentralized workplace, one thing is certain: you must be actively involved with conversations that will advance your career and your influence.   In today’s economy, influence is the new job currency and without it you are now more vulnerable than ever.

Why gratitude is good for business, year round

Why gratitude is good for business, year round: Instead of showing appreciation exclusively during the holidays, some businesses are building it into their day-to-day and reaping financial rewards on account of it.

How to Bootstrap Your Business

How to Bootstrap Your Business: Starting up a business is a full-time job. So how do you manage it when you already have a full-time job? Here's how a few entrepreneurs juggled both to payoff.

A Key Ingredient to Successful Movement Marketing

A Key Ingredient to Successful Movement Marketing

How to Sell to Grocery Giants Wal-Mart and Whole Foods

How to Sell to Grocery Giants Wal-Mart and Whole Foods: Here are seven concrete suggestions on getting your products onto the shelves of major grocers.

The First Rule of Building a Business

The First Rule of Building a Business

Richard Branson on How to Avoid Common Startup Mistakes

Richard Branson on How to Avoid Common Startup Mistakes: The celebrated British business mogul shares what he's learned on his entrepreneurial journey.

Three Steps to Finding a Business Mentor

Three Steps to Finding a Business Mentor: Here's how to meet an experienced startup advisor and maximize the relationship.

Ten Tips To Clear Your Portfolio's Dead Weight

Ten Tips To Clear Your Portfolio's Dead Weight: Portfolio management involves risk management, but it might also take a little house cleaning to stay on track. Part of this process involves mentally preparing yourself for great profits. Having the right mindset can begin with a few steps. The following 10 actions are designed to clear out the...

Ten Career Lessons from the Top of the Masthead

Ten Career Lessons from the Top of the Masthead: A must read for all career women this week is Ken Auletta's profile of Jill Abramson, the first woman executive editor of the New York Times. There are so many lessons in this article for women who wish to break the glass ceiling, that I've reduced them to ten action

3 Money Steps Toward Joy This Holiday Season

3 Money Steps Toward Joy This Holiday Season: We’re all appalled. It’s not even Halloween, and the stores are teeming with Christmas. In Northern California, we’re still having 90 degree days, but if we walk into Target, there’s a winter wonderland inside. Few enjoy the early onset of the holidays. But the holidays are coming, and taking time now to make a holiday spending plan can guide you through the season and help alleviate money vagueness and fear. You’ll feel less stress and experience more joy by taking action now and following these three steps.

Five Things to Never Say to Your Direct Reports

Five Things to Never Say to Your Direct Reports

Startup Aims to Leverage Crowdsourcing in Product Development

Startup Aims to Leverage Crowdsourcing in Product Development: C.J. Kettler's online crowdsourcing venture, Genius Crowds, aims to move product ideas from the "light bulb" stage onto store shelves.

How to Really Listen

How to Really Listen: One morning, my wife Eleanor woke up, turned over, and said, "I am not looking forward to this day." I asked her why.

5 business books you can really use

5 business books you can really use: Tired of reading the same old advice? Here are a few books that can actually help you run your business.

Innovation is About Execution, Despite the Myths

Innovation is About Execution, Despite the Myths: Most people think innovation is all about ideas, when in fact it is more about delivery, people, and process. Entrepreneurs looking to innovate need to understand the execution challenge if they expect their startup to carve out a profitable niche in the marketplace, and keep innovating to build and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage.

Want To Save Serious Cash? Focus On The Big Stuff First

Want To Save Serious Cash? Focus On The Big Stuff First: This post provided by SavingsAccounts.com. How many times have you heard your friends or coworkers talk about cutting back and saving more money? And how many times have you heard them follow this with grand plans to quit buying overpriced coffee or start packing a lunch everyday? While these ...

Startup Success Fast Track

Startup Success Fast Track: How today's business owners are building thriving companies