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If you're looking to improve your own team's skills, you need to ask your clients for ways you can improve.
Read More »Could Tax Reform Kill Your Business?
The President and just about every Republican candidate favors eliminating tax loopholes.
Read More »3 Words That Guarantee Failure
People who fail to achieve goals signal their intent to fail by using this common phrase. Make sure you aren't falling into the same trap.
Read More »How Enticing Opportunities Can Drive Companies Off Course
Daniel Goetz, founder of GoodPop, an all-natural frozen treats company, tells Fast Company how entrepreneurs can benefit by occasionally wearing blinders. [twistage ff34ba962378a] Want more great ideas from top entrepreneurs?
Read More »An Ornamental Olfactory Experience
The new fragrance from the House of Sillage is making a statement as much with the fragrance as with its glittering limited-edition bottle, which is covered in 491 fully faceted Swarovski crystals, each of which has been placed by hand in the shape of an incandescent crown, indicative of the ...
Read More »Sneak Peek: Palazzo Margherita, Bernalda, Italy
A remodeled 120-year-old palazzo is now an intimate nine-room resort, the Palazzo Margherita, which opened March 1 in the Southern Italian town of Bernalda. The hotel is decorated with hand-painted fresco ceilings and marble floors dating to the 1800s and restored to their original luster, while furniture pieces by French ...
Read More »Face Blindness: When everyone is a stranger
Imagine you couldn't recognize people's faces, and even your own family looked unfamiliar. Lesley Stahl reports on face blindness, a puzzling neurological disorder.
Read More »The Freelancer/ Independent Consultant/ Work-From-Homer’s Guide To Tax Write-Offs
Those who do contracting on the side, work from home, or do their own freelance thing have to watch every dime that goes out. Here's a few dimes you can catch
Read More »Examining the broad reach of depression
About 1 in 10 Americans is said to suffer a form of depression - but some of those millions may be over-diagnosed
Read More »Graphic PSAs: Effective tools, or too shocking?
New anti-smoking campaign here and U.K. ads raising awareness of teen date rape are latest ones causing a stir
Read More »Who’s Streaming March Madness? You’d Be Surprised
BAM is the only team more focused than Kentucky on the NCAA tournament. And it's best known for ..
Read More »How Diapers.com Gets Customers Coming Back
Marc Lore and Vinit Bharara lure moms to their websites to buy diapers, soaps, and other essentials. Quick delivery, simple experience, and good customer service gets them to return.
Read More »Where Pinterest Will Go From Here
Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann explains why the social network updated its profile pages, and future plans for more extensive changes. Earlier this week, we heard a vague promise from Pinterest's founder Ben Silbermann : The fast-growing social bulletin-board website would be adding user profiles by week's end. Voila! On Friday morning Pinterest introduced profile pages that showcase a user's photo more prominently, as well as the other individuals that user most often re-pins
Read More »This Week In Bots: Robot Squirrels, Amoebas, Pilots, And… Guilt?
Bot Vid: Robo Squirrel Working with wild rattlesnakes is not exactly the safest or simplest job in the world. It's harder to study them in a realistic enviroment than friendlier, less fang-y animals...like squirrels
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