Big, nonsensical blunders such as a bad acquisition can happen when you don't consider a broad enough set of growth paths. Do you ever wonder why businesses make big, nonsensical, blunders like a bad acquisition or selling an unprofitable product?
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Feed SubscriptionMarketing Emergency: Nobody’s Making Content Worth Reading
How can I go about teaching enterprise, and their B2B marketers, how to produce better content? This is a real marketing emergency, if there is such a thing. Have you looked at the number of white papers out there lately?
Read More »Goodbye Industrial Robotics; Hello Rock Stars
How one man went from chasing start-up and technology jobs in Silicon Valley to creating a thriving craftsman shop making custom ukeleles for the likes of Eddie Vedder. Gordon Mayer's first job out of college was working for a start-up company creating industrial robots.
Read More »Personalized Health Data, Tailored Medicine, And The End Of Illness
Dr. David Agus, one of Steve Jobs's oncologists and a medical researcher at USC, argues in his new book "The End Of Illness" that the key to a radical reduction in illness is to systematically prevent the unhealthy lifestyles that allow diseases to thrive, and to tailor medical treatment to each individual.
Read More »Shocking News: Rich and Poor Don’t See Eye to Eye
According to Pew Research, 66 percent of Americans say there's conflict between the classes. Do you agree?
Read More »So What Should We Do About Bill?
Outgrowing some of your loyal employees? Stop hoping they will retire.
Read More »Video: Paula Deen has type-2 diabetes
Paula Deen, known for her many decadent recipes as one of Television's most infamous cooks, has revealed that she has type-2 diabetes.
Read More »Are You Prepared for Chinese New Year?
Do business in China? Here's what you need to know to plan ahead, avoid delays, and prevent other unanticipated holiday hiccups
Read More »Zappos’ Security Breach: Are You Next?
The hackers didn't get credit card information but what they did get is potentially more dangerous. Don't let it happen to your business. Inc.
Read More »Do You Have a Privacy Problem?
Google, Facebook, and others have made consumers particularly sensitive about their privacy online. That means you need to be sensitive about it too. Big tech companies are no strangers to privacy problems
Read More »Gov’t wants Alzheimer’s treatment that works by 2025
Obama administration announced its National Alzheimer's Plan to fight disease that is expected to strike 16 million Americans by 2050
Read More »Stonyfield Founder: I’m Not Retiring!
Gary Hirshberg talks to his wife, Inc. columnist Meg Cadoux Hirshberg, about his recent decision to step down as CEO of Stonyfield Yogurt. My husband, Gary Hirshberg, announced last week that he was stepping down as CE-Yo of Stonyfield Yogurt, after 28 years on the job.
Read More »The Business Move That Lets Me Sleep Easy
I used to live in fear of walking into the office and hearing "Our server crashed." No more. Not sure if you should be running your own network or hiring someone else to deal with it? Not sure what to make of all this talk about ‘moving your business to the cloud’
Read More »Internet Set for Wednesday Shutdown
Wikipedia, Reddit, and a host of other popular sites are gearing up for a total blackout on January 18 in protest of the controversial anti-piracy legislation. In the battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, the tech world seems to be gaining ground. In a major protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 (PIPA), a number of high-profile sites are planning a total shutdown for January 18
Read More »Babies read lips before they can speak, study shows
Do babies learn from watching you speak?
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