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What Being a Lifelong Hockey Player Taught Me About Running a Business

I've learned lessons as a hockey player that help me as an executive.

By Vincent Tricarico

Building a Business

4 Lessons Businesses Should Have Learned From the Pandemic

By Steve Taplin

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5 Critical Lessons I’ve Learned From Interviewing Over 100 Entrepreneurs

By Nicole Bernard

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4 Lessons from Steve Jobs That Are Still Relevant 10 Years After His Death

By John Boitnott

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12 Leadership Lessons from Envoy Founder and CEO Larry Gadea

How the former Google and Twitter software prodigy built a workplace platform that has helped facilitate four million safe returns to the office.

By Jason Nazar

Marketing

Marketable Skills You Learned From Your Personal Story

Our life experiences produce transferrable skills we can use in any business scenario.

By Shereese Floyd

Human Resources

7 Lessons From Larry King on Straight-Shooting in Life and Business

Larry King treated everyone the same way, and asked direct questions to get the answers he wanted.

By Brian T. Edmondson, Esq.

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5 Lessons I’ve Learned From Working With Novak Djokovic

Ace your business and life goals with these lessons from the tennis superstar.

By Adrian Falk

Business News

5 Hard Truths on Human Nature From the Britney Spears Documentary

A new deep-dive into the pop star's battle for control of her life and finances offers grim takeaways on how you can be used and abused unless you have a vice grip on your image and narrative.

By Frances Dodds

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5 of the Best Lessons From Warren Buffett’s December 2020 Commencement Speech

The Oracle of Omaha gave a rare interview for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's online commencement ceremony.

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How Selling Christmas Cards Door-To-Door Led To Billion-Dollar Tequila And Beauty Empires

Four lessons on persistence from legendary rags-to-riches entrepreneur John Paul Dejoria.

By Nick Wolny

Building a Business

How the Book ‘The Elegance of the Hedgehog’ Changed My Business

Lessons from this French novel keep me grounded and focused when times feel uncertain.

By Catharine Dockery

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4 Lessons You Can Learn From Estonia’s Tech Unicorns

Companies from this small nation been able to make a global impact because they keep possibilities in mind.

By Ott Vatter

Building a Business

When’s the Right Time to Pursue Your Passion? It’s Right Now.

It's time to stop looking backward, and to stop biding our time. This is our moment.

By Jason Feifer

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3 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When People Tell Them No

Here's why you shouldn't use fear, guilt or shame as a tactic when people tell you no -- and what you can do instead.

By Rahkim Sabree

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The Best Business Book Ever Written, According To Bill Gates And Warren Buffett

It's a collection of 12 Wall Street parables.

By Nick Wolny

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10 Leadership Lessons with Dallas Mavericks CEO Cynt Marshall

The takeaways she learned in her 40-year career at AT&T and now leading an NBA team.

By Jason Nazar

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12 Leadership Lessons with NerdWallet CEO Tim Chen

What you can learn from a CEO who started a company after losing his job during the 2008 financial crisis.

By Jason Nazar

Building a Business

An Old Lunch Pail Reminds This Founder to Embrace the Tough Times

Working through setbacks and overcoming hurdles sometimes yield the greatest lessons.

By Jason Minick

Business Operations & Logistics

7 Franchisees Share Lessons from the Pandemic

Survival wasn't easy - but for these entrepreneurs, there was no alternative.

By Jason Feifer and Stephanie Schomer

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10 Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Learn About Their Business

What I've taken away from 10 years of running my business.

By Tomer Bar-Zeev

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The Secret Weapon Behind Chewy Founder Ryan Cohen’s Success

From starting his company to selling it to PetSmart for $3.35 billion, Cohen always had someone to turn to for advice.

By Ryan Cohen

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3 Lessons for First-Time CEOs From Someone Who’s Been There

The lessons a CEO two years in wishes she knew when she started out.

By Kate Johnson

Building a Business

“When?” is the Most Important Question for Entrepreneurs. (The Answer: Now?)

When do you launch? When do you act? When do you change? The cofounder of Square has answers.

By Jim McKelvey

Human Resources

Tech Giants Are Failing to Inspire Employee Trust. Here Are 4 Ways Your Company Can Do Better.

In a time of cultural upheaval, HR mishaps have companies like Google and Tesla hemorrhaging executives. Learn from their mistakes to build a more inclusive workplace culture.

By Jocelyn Kung