Business Operations & Logistics
Don’t Drive Your Business Without Data
When you have good information about your customers, innovation can result.
By Iman Jalali
Strategy | Page 5
Building a Business
4 Steps to Successful Execution of a Strategy
An entrepreneur's best-laid plans can go awry if there's not careful followup. Here's a framework for giving your startup a greater chance at prevailing.
By Jesse Torres
Entrepreneurs
How Fortune 500 Leaders Spend Every Minute of the Day (Infographic)
The heads of some of America's biggest companies divulge their personal and work habits.
By John Rampton
Building a Business
Feel Dumb Asking for Advice? You’ll Actually Appear More Competent.
New research reveals that while we're all scared asking for advice will make us look like incompetent fools, it actually has the opposite effect.
By Laura Entis
Thought Leaders
What Bouncing Back From 3 Lost Super Bowls Taught Me About Celebrating Failure
An entrepreneur who avoids risk for fear of failure is far worse off than an entrepreneur who fails, learns and tries again.
Building a Business
6 Ways to Avoid Getting Screwed
Getting screwed is part of the game, but it doesn't have to happen as often as it does.
Buying a Franchise
Why These 3 Once Thriving Franchises Have Fallen on Hard Times
What went wrong, and can they survive?
By Jason Daley
Online Presence
Scrabble Updates Its Dictionary for the First Time in a Decade, Adding 5,000 Words
New admissions include words like 'texter,' 'funplex,' 'bromance' and 'selfie,' but Scrabble fanatics are most excited about the inclusion of four two-letter words.
By Laura Entis
Thought Leaders
10 Steps to Quality CEO Decision-Making
The buck shouldn't always stop with the CEO but, when it does, there are practical ways to come to the best decision.
Building a Business
3 Questions Every Business Owner Needs to Ask Themselves In July
With summer in full swing and the start of the third quarter, it's time to take an honest look at your progress.
Building a Business
Winning is Simpler When You Don’t Complicate Things
If you're not getting the results you want and feel like your business is in a slump, you've probably just gotten away from your fundamentals.
Building a Business
6 Key Factors in Scoring a $1 Billion Valuation for Your Startup
The team and the market were ranked as most important keys, according to representatives of six companies that made it.
Building a Business
4 Things to Consider When Making Your First Hires
Making the right decisions today will ensure your company's survival tomorrow.
By John Bradley
Thought Leaders
10 Things Real Leaders Do
Leaders lead. Followers follow. It's not complicated. You're either one or the other. Which are you?
By Steve Tobak
Thought Leaders
How to Know When to Change Direction
There's something to be said for stick-with-it-ness, but most entrepreneurs stick with flawed ideas and plans way longer than they should.
By Steve Tobak
Business News
3 Apps That Stand Out in Crowded Categories
There are millions of apps available. This trio broke out of the fray and earned loyal followings.
Building a Business
Why Entrepreneurs Should Plan for Failure, Not Success
Being practical and thoughtful about all of the possibilities and worst-case scenarios prompts allows firm to progress.
By Jerry Jao
Building a Business
The Tool Your Nonprofit Needs the Most
After your nonprofit is up and running, a strategic plan will help you keep it in business and moving forward.
Building a Business
6 Things You Must Do 36 Months Before Your IPO
If you wait till the last minute, the public offering will disrupt your business. And if that happens, what's the point?
Building a Business
5 Negotiation Tactics You Can Learn From Kids
There's a reason why kids eat their vegetables, and you can apply it to business.
Entrepreneurs
Procrastinators: How to Fight Your Genes and Get Stuff Done Now
Procrastination may be hereditary, but that doesn't get you off the hook: It's still possible to develop better habits and change your behavior.
By Laura Entis
Human Resources
3 Strategies for Dealing With Toxic People
Unfortunately, you can't change them. But you can change the way you interact with them.
Building a Business
4 Tips for Preparing Your Business to Grow
Who doesn't want her business to scale? But getting enough customers to make your company sustainable can be challenging. Here are a few ways to make the process a bit easier.
Building a Business
10 Phrases That Need to Be Banned From the Office
Take these annoying, cringeworthy and overused terms out of your office vocabulary.
Marketing
How to Fix These 3 Bad Marketing Habits
With new, innovative marketing strategies continuing to pop up, marketers often lose focus on the impact these tactics will have on their bottom line.
By Danny Wong
Building a Business
How to Filter Conflicting Advice From Multiple Mentors
Getting different entrepreneurs' takes can be invaluable, but also confusing. Figure out what's best for you with these tips.
By George Deeb
Thought Leaders
Challenge Assumptions. Don’t Be Afraid of Taking a Different Tack.
A former Microsoft COO says company leaders need to re-examine their core thinking and test out new approaches to not be left behind.
By Bob Herbold