Building a Business
11 Ways Emotionally Intelligent People Overcome Uncertainty
Here are proven strategies you can use to improve the quality of your decisions when your emotions are clouding your judgment
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Entrepreneurs
How This Famous Behavioral Economist Is Trying to Help People Solve Their Most Common Money Problems
Financial savings startup Qapital just named Duke psychology professor Dan Ariely its chief behavioral economist. Here's how he plans to help the company change users' spending and saving habits.
By Laura Entis
Thought Leaders
Entrepreneurs Don’t Overthink Things. They Make a Decision and Go With It.
Becoming an entrepreneur means accepting that you might fail. At some point, you've got to shut off your brain, and make a move.
By Stephen Key
Building a Business
Starting a Business Is Hard So Try Flipping One Instead
It's often easier to fix a struggling company than it is to create one from scratch.
By Mike Kalis
Thought Leaders
The 5 Decisions That Will Change Your Life Forever as an Entrepreneur
Because entrepreneurship has been so heavily glamorized over the past decade, many people feel surprised and guilty about the fact that it can actually be a pretty tough choice to make.
By Sujan Patel
Business News
The Common Beliefs We Get Wrong
As a society, we often overvalue unimportant things and undervalue the ideas and strategies that make a real difference.
By James Clear
Business Plan
4 Books Your Timid Entrepreneurial Heart Wants You to Read
Fearful about taking those first steps? Others have felt the same way. They've written whole books about it.
Building a Business
3 Signs That You Should Shut Down Your Business
It's not an easy decision, but sometimes circumstances dictate it's the right thing to do.
Thought Leaders
4 Steps to Pick Yourself Up From a Tough Situation
Major losses force entrepreneurs to make hard decisions. These decisions almost always turn your life to a new chapter where the stakes are higher and the wins are bigger.
By Zach Ferres
Thought Leaders
The 7 Styles of Decision Making
'Understanding how you make decisions is the starting point to making a more informed decision in the future,' says author Jeffrey Shinabarger.
Thought Leaders
The 9 Characteristics of a Good Decision
Decision-making be the single-greatest weight upon your shoulders if you don't know how to manage stress or if the consequences are less than ideal.
By Jeff Boss
Thought Leaders
Today Is the Luckiest Day of the Year (Astrologically Speaking)
Making a business deal or announcing a new entrepreneurial venture? According to astrologist Susan Miller, you should schedule it on Aug. 26, 2015.
By Kate Taylor
Entrepreneurs
Want to Make A Lot of Money? Majoring in Engineering Is One Good Option.
Although a bachelor's degree in one unlikely major boasts a mid-career median salary of $85,000.
By Laura Entis
Building a Business
Are You Quitting Too Soon or Staying With It Too Long?
Entrepreneurs are advised to embrace failure but never give up. Recognizing which to do when is tough in real life.
Thought Leaders
4 Leadership Fundamentals That Every Entrepreneur Should Know
Communicating effectively and managing people is extremely difficult to learn, let alone apply. It pays to have the right plan.
By Jeff Boss
Entrepreneurs
4 Really Dumb Ways to Make Decisions That Derail Your Success
When you just can't see how anything could go wrong, take a second look.
Thought Leaders
The 4 Types of Decisions, and How to Approach Each One
Making good decisions is critical to business success. The first step in good decision-making is to understand that not all decisions are created equal.
Thought Leaders
Listen to Your Gut Especially When You Don’t Like What It’s Telling You
You know what you have to do. That little voice in your head keeps repeating it.
By Tasha Eurich
Thought Leaders
10 Behaviors of Real Leaders
Leaders lead. Followers follow. You can't do both. That's not opinion; it's biology.
By Steve Tobak
Thought Leaders
There Are People You Need to Consult Before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap
You need a clear idea of what you're getting into and so does everybody who will have to go along for the ride.
By John Rampton
Building a Business
Be the Benevolent Dictator Your Company Deserves
Companies aren't democracies. At some point, leaders need to make decisions.
Building a Business
Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? Because We Shouldn’t.
Conflict is key to smart decisions and positive outcomes ... and we're all the better for it.
By Steve Tobak
Thought Leaders
How Not to Be Too Busy for Your Own Good
There are at least four types of indecision. Which type describes you?
Thought Leaders
Are You a Leader or a Follower?
Leadership is the art of persuasion-the act of motivating people to do more than they ever thought possible in pursuit of a greater good. It has nothing to do with authority or seniority.
Thought Leaders
4 Ways to Get Your Gut to Shut Up and Your Brain to Speak Up When Making Decisions
Intuition is useful when it is based on facts, experience and analysis.
Business News
The Surprising Downsides of Being Clever
Can a high IQ be a burden rather than a boon?
By David Robson
Building a Business
Refuse to Be Sucked Into Uncertainty
For any of your decisions to have a chance at being successful, the actions that follow those decisions must be founded on confidence.