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Do you attend a lot of boring meetings?

Can paying recent graduates to work and play in Detroit infuse the city with extra creativity? Challenge Detroit is banking on it. "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," President Obama's then chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is reported to have said of the 2008 meltdown of the financial sector.

The community you build at work is just as important as anything else you do. A case in point. I debated sharing this story here because of how recently these events had taken place.

As customer attitudes change, "giving back" is no longer an option. It's a necessity. Here's how to make it good business, too.

Even at the best of times, naming is a contentious and emotional business.

How an unusual inner-city charter school plans to groom the next generation of tech entrepreneurs. If you think the next generation of start-up founders will hail from Stanford, Harvard, or some other university cranking out MBAs, you might want to expand your thinking.

A new study reveals that young entrepreneurs are driven by rule-breaking, thinking outside the box, and friendship. Today's young entrepreneurs are motivated to start companies because they hate authority and want to break all the rules, according to a recent study of 250 business owners between the ages of 18 and 22 years old.

These aren't worker bees.

Those tiny plastic USB memory sticks you've got on your desk or skulking in your laptop bag's pocket are soon to be relegated to the past. Innovation, and the mobile tech revolution, is to blame

When faced with unthinkable tragedy, restaurateur John Besh found the secret to growing his business--and it wasn't all about the bottomline. More than a decade ago, chef John Besh set a date to open his first New Orleans restaurant: September 11th, 2001. That would be the first unimaginable American tragedy to leave its mark on the Louisiana-native.

Don't wait. Here are seven reasons to launch a venture today

If you think that PR is just about the press mention, think again. A great media campaign can actually make you money.

It wasn't Abraham Lincoln's strengths but the self-discipline with which he put those strengths toward the right purpose. There is much we can learn by studying Abraham Lincoln's journey from being just another politician to becoming America's greatest president. (Wikipedia provides a compilation of "Historical rankings of Presidents of the United States" which makes it clear that in the eyes of many experts, and the public, Lincoln has consistently held this status)

It's been a long day at work.

We all want more time. But how do you get it