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Being a great mentor requires more than experience and time. Learn to weave the right web
Read More »The Secret, Selfish Side Of Social-Curation Sites
Here’s my beef with social platforms today: I don’t think they’re very social at all. As much as Google+, Facebook, and Pinterest promise a way to connect, they’ve also promoted a disconnect--sharing on different platforms, proving a fragmented sense of keeping tabs on any social network
Read More »Out of Sight, Top of Mind
How to keep a business on track when its top performers are scattered across the map. Caldwell, Idaho
Read More »Who Are You Talking To?
Is there anyone outside of your company challenging you to grow yourself and your business? The "Master Mind Group" I am in is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year
Read More »Improve Sales by Boosting Collaboration
Keith Ferrazzi offers tips for getting your team to work together more quickly and effectively. Welcome back to part 2 of our 2 part interview series with Keith Ferrazzi–speaker, thought-leader and author of New York Times bestseller Never Eat Alone. (Here’s part 1: Networking Secrets for Sales Calls .) Today Keith’s letting us tap into some of his insights on how to make people more productive when they’re working together, and developing solutions together to the problems that we have, especially in the sales process.
Read More »Charming surprise: First evidence for CP violation in charm decays
The LHCb Collaboration has presented today at the Hadron Collider Particle Symposium in Paris possible first evidence for CP violation, the difference between behaviour of matter (particles) and antimatter (antiparticles), in charm decays.
Read More »The Doctor Is Very In: Dr. James Truchard’s Quest For Endless Innovation
Dr. T cofounded the technology giant that is National Instruments out of his garage more than 35 years with a $10,000 loan. NI's software and hardware is behind robotics and smart cameras to medical diagnostic equipment.
Read More »Antimatter sticks around
By successfully confining atoms of antihydrogen for an unprecedented 1,000 seconds, an international team of researchers called the ALPHA Collaboration has taken a step towards resolving one of the grand challenges of modern physics: explaining why the Universe is made almost entirely of matter, when matter and antimatter are symmetric, with identical mass, spin and other properties. The achievement is remarkable because antimatter instantly disappears on contact with regular matter such that confining antimatter requires the use of exotic technology.
Read More »How Much About the Business Should You Share With Your Spouse?
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg examines the limit on what your spouse should know about the companys problems. In the early years of Stonyfield Yogurt, my husband, Gary, and I acted like the three wise monkeys
Read More »Top Picks for Back Office Software
Last month we told you the best options for front office software. This month we asked the experts to weigh in on back office software to improve your business operations. Never have there been more software choices for the small business.
Read More »What A Detroit Supper Club Teaches Us About Co-Creativity
A social movement is underway in downtown Detroit.
Read More »Is a Second Internet in Our Future?
What if you could conduct business on a second, more secure Internet? For some, the idea of a more secure Internet makes sense: all transactions would be safe from criminals and hackers who routinely break into corporate servers and deface websites. This second Internet would run alongside the main Internet but use an entirely different network of servers and IP addresses
Read More »New tool for proton spin
How the particles that constitute a proton give rise to is to its rotation, or spin, is an intriguing open question of contemporary particle physics. A technique that could provide some answers has been developed using the worlds only polarized protonproton collider. The work was published by the PHENIX Collaboration, which includes researchers from the RIKEN Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Research Center in Upton, USA.
Read More »Prioritize Goals to Profitably Grow Your Business
Six months ago when I started working at Parallels as CEO I knew that I would not be able to accomplish everything I wanted overnight. So I asked myself, "What are the key challenges I want to tackle first?" I worked with my leadership team to define our business priorities and establish clear, measurable goals so we could achieve them to profitably grow our business. I created scorecards for our company with our executives and their teams so everyone understands our goals, what success looks like and how each person is accountable to helping the company achieve its goals.
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