Business Plan
Feel Like an Imposter? Practice These 5 Habits to Beat Your Imposter Syndrome
We are all our own biggest critics.
Fails
Building a Business
The Actor in Peloton’s Cringey Holiday Ad Says His Few Seconds of Airtime Led to ‘Malicious Feedback That Is All Associated With My Face’
The actor in Peloton's confusing and much-criticized holiday ad has broken his silence.
Entrepreneurs
The Biggest Facepalm Moments of 2017
Is it too much to ask to do a little better?
By Rose Leadem
Marketing
5 Lessons From the Great Pepsi Shakeup
Hitching your advertising to a trendy topic has great potential, both for better and worse.
Thought Leaders
What’s Next for United After Dragging a Bloodied Passenger Off a Plane? A Plan.
Next stop: leadership.
By Linda Lacina
Marketing
Pepsi Ignites Outrage With Kendall Jenner Ad
Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should.
By Nina Zipkin
Marketing
This Year’s April Fool’s Gags, From LOL to Nope
Please brands, leave the jokes to the professionals.
By Nina Zipkin
Online Presence
Biggest Social Media Fails of 2017
Twitter trolls take over U.K. snack brand Walkers' social media campaign.
By Rose Leadem
Online Presence
Yahoo Finance Accidentally Tweets Racial Slur
A reminder to carefully proofread every piece of content you produce.
By Rose Leadem
Online Presence
Cinnabon Gets Overzealous in Its Twitter Grief for Carrie Fisher
The bakery brand and General Mills both fell in the same trap this year.
By Nina Zipkin
Business News
New Zealand Passport Robot Tells Applicant of Asian Descent to Open Eyes
Facial recognition software mistakenly registered his eyes as being closed.
By Reuters
Building a Business
How Last Week’s Internet Slowdown Proves How the Internet of Things Industry Failed Us
The most frustrating part of the recent DDoS attack is that there were plenty of warning signs.
By Max Eddy
Building a Business
5 Proven Ways to Turn Failure into Success
Failure, like almost everything else to an entrepreneur, represents an opportunity.
Building a Business
7 Ways ‘Silicon Valley’ Is an Epic HR Failure
The popular comedy pokes fun the human resource shortcomings of tech titans and would-be titans who are just as flawed as everybody else.
Building a Business
Android’s ‘N-Word’ Poll Sparks Online Jeers
The new 'Android N operating platform was unveiled at its Google I/O developers conference on Wednesday.
By Reuters
Business News
Selfie Gone Wrong Fells 126-Year-Old Statue of Portuguese King
A young man accidentally toppled Dom Sebastiao's statue after climbing up to its pedestal outside the ornate Rossio railway station in central Lisbon just before midnight on Tuesday.
By Reuters
Marketing
3 Major Sales Mistakes You Must Avoid
Consultant Jeff Hoffman addresses three common problems.
By Joe Robinson
Online Presence
7 Social Media Fails So Disastrous, They Shocked the Experts
Here's why it's best to think before posting.
By Carly Okyle
Building a Business
The 5 Worst Marketing Fails of 2015
From sickeningly sexist ads to a QR code that accidentally directs to a porn site, here are the gnarliest marketing sins of the year.
Business News
Microsoft’s Version of Siri Fails to Work at the Worst Possible Moment (VIDEO)
This was neither the time, nor the place, Cortana. Really, you should know better.
Business News
Why This 14-Year-Old Student Was Arrested Over a Clock
Ahmed Mohamed made an electronic clock and brought it to school, where it was mistaken for a bomb. He now may face charges.
By Pamela Engel
Business News
Unmanned SpaceX Rocket Explodes Minutes After Launch
The Falcon 9 rocket's mission was to re-supply the space station. It's the third time an effort to do so has failed.
Business News
Here We Go Again: Comcast Changes Another Customer’s Name to Something Super Offensive.
If you don't offend enough the first time, try, try again.
Business News
Comcast Accidentally Changes Customer Name to Asshole Brown
The mass media company faces another customer-service blunder after someone tried to cancel the family's cable service.
By Carly Okyle
Thought Leaders
The Biggest Business Fails of 2014
A look back at the faux-pas that got us talking.
By Nina Zipkin
Building a Business
5 Lessons Leaders Can Learn From the Sony Hacking Scandal
Professionals in any industry can learn from the most dramatic story to come out of Hollywood in years.
By Carly Okyle
Thought Leaders
Don’t Be a Turkey in How You Communicate Appreciation to Your Staff
Clueless managers might fall short in expressing their thanks on the eve of Thanksgiving. Here's what to do.
By Paul White