Philippe Matthews Show Guru Advice, Author Reviews, Tech Reviews, Entertainment News

A new study finds assertive black women leaders are viewed positively while just as assertive white women in the same roles are viewed negatively.

Indigo Johnson founded Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week Careers In Transition to help organizations get the most out of their workers. As applications for the 2012 Inc

Communication has been streamlined to short messages. Your management should be too. I’m a big fan of short, concise, summarized communication.

I've been collecting data about startups and compensation since 2001. Here's what entrepreneurs think they know about startup pay -- and what actually happens

I am sitting in a bakery minutes from my house, steps away from the train station, watching still-sleepy counter workers shuffling brioches and muffins to a rising flow of customers. I shouldn’t be here. I should be on that train now leaving the station, heading into New York City.

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.

Identifying your businesss one true objective will provide a strong foundation for all strategic decision-making. A few years ago we worked with the new CEO of a consumer packaged goods (CPG) company

Researchers offer strong medicine for those who are too scared to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams, finding evidence that, in the long-term, we regret actions not taken far more than failed attempts. So you have dreams of starting a business. You also have a long list of potential downsides of following that passion, including perhaps significant financial and personal costs and a lizard-brain terror of failure and rejection

In the 30 years since In Search of Excellence was published, critics have found flaws in its methodology, its content, and even its writing style.

An MBA can cost you upward of $100,000. Will the investment really to pay off?

%excerpt% Go here to see the original: Silicon Valley’s Race Problem

Put these on your list of tasks not to delegate this year. Fund raiser. Dishwasher.

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

Dont goose near-term results at the expense of long-term value creation.

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?