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Bob Vila isn't just a brand, he's an entrepreneur reinventing himself in a new economic landscape.

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Charles R. Knight (1874 – 1953) is best known for his arresting paintings of dinosaurs and other long-vanished beasts

Lack of focus can be a core competency. Here are six principles to encourage innovative thinking, lots of experimentation, and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Lack of focus can be a core competency.

If you want to be appreciated at work, make sure everyone else feels welcome. Whenever people gather in any social setting, there is always one person who becomes the primary center of attention. People want to be around that person, and unconsciously seek his or her approval.

If you want to be appreciated at work, make sure everyone else feels welcome. Whenever people gather in any social setting, there is always one person who becomes the primary center of attention. People want to be around that person, and unconsciously seek his or her approval.

We struggle every day with the ever-present need to get bigger, then get bigger again, in order to meet our objectives and create a sustainable business.

Here's how New York City's Big Fuel created a system to help new employees find their way, and stay put. Over the past year, Big Fuel has seen its revenue more than triple, to $40 million, and its head count swell, from 70 employees to 140. But with growth comes growing pains.

If you dont know which products create the most value for your business, youre probably missing out on key growth opportunities. Using product profitability or bottom line value creation to help determine the appropriate marketing mix is one of the more difficult metrics for management teams to accurately measure.

Microsoft, Best Buy, and other tech giants are coming for you, armed with their best sales pitches. Get ready to negotiate. You may not know it, but you're a target sitting in the crosshairs of big technology vendors everywhere

When your business is built around talent, you cant afford to skimp on healthcare and other employee benefits. As a rapidly growing business , one of the last things we were focused on was our employee benefits plan. Not a great approach, since providing a world-class benefits package can be a relatively inexpensive way to reward and retain key people.

The traditional private equity model could use a makeover.

Which customers should you be rolling out the red carpet for? Follow these three steps to identify the customers and prospects worth nurturing

There's no good reason to care about EBITDA, right? Wrong. Your banker and investors will care--so should you.