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With winnings from "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire," Nik Bonaddio created a predictive sports system Billy Beane would be proud of. Nik Bonaddio was in the hot seat on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire one night back in 2009. He had coasted through the first few questions.
Read More »Your Prescription for Productivity
Here's how a mind-body approach can help you achieve peak performance--both personally, and company-wide. Imagine going to a doctor's appointment and everyone in the office seems to know you almost as well as you know yourself.
Read More »Is Your Workspace Killing You?
Research shows the typical office design is pretty bad for your health. Here are a few tips for creating a healthy space for you and your employees.
Read More »How to Negotiate Like a Corporate Lawyer
Corporate lawyers are the trained ninjas of negotiation, but you don't need three years of expensive post-grad education to learn some of their strategies. Negotiation is as unavoidable as it is it feared. In the ideal world of many young entrepreneurs, professionals would handle it all, winning the best deals for your startup and reducing the opposition to rubble.
Read More »Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity
By tossing the two-week standard in favor of an honor system with unlimited time off, some companies are seeing an exponential rise in productivity. Now, they just have to be mindful of staff burnout
Read More »Don’t Miss These 5 Things at SXSW
SXSW Interactive is one of the biggest tech and start-up conferences of the year. It's also overwhelming.
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 »Forecasters Aim to Improve Warnings for Local Tsunamis
By Richard Monastersky of Nature magazine As soon as the shaking died down on 11 March last year, Ken-Ichi Sato stumbled back to his office and pressed the alarm button, triggering sirens throughout the city of Kesennuma in northeastern Japan. [More]
Read More »How New Orleans Re-Started
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu on the roadblock that keeps cities--and start-up founders--from solving big problems. I recently realized that I've been stuck in a rut for years and that rut is ideology.
Read More »Method’s 4 Rules for Staying Innovative
Eric Ryan, co-founder of method home products, reveals the four things his company does to keep the creativity flowing. At 36,000 feet, on a Virgin America flight, I was pondering soap
Read More »Are Entrepreneurs Smarter About Money?
Laura Vanderkam, author of new book on personal finances, explains why entrepreneurs have a better mindset about money than most people, but warns that business owners still make mistakes. Money, traditional wisdom tells us , can't buy happiness
Read More »Entrepreneurs Are the Cool Kids on Campus
A new movement fueled by college-aged entrepreneurs and the organizations that support them is just beginning to take off.
Read More »A Gracious Host for Bloggers: A Small Orange
Douglas Hanna helps run a company with revenue in the millions and keeps your website online--when hes not in class. Douglas Hanna is the CEO of a multi-million dollar company, but you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at his office filled with mostly empty desks. But Hanna is confident that business is steadily humming—just not there
Read More »Learning To Be A Power Listener
In business, the consequences of failing to properly frame or assess an issue can be dire. Often such a misdiagnosis is the result of not having the right information. Though the necessary information is often available, businesspeople sometimes don't know how to find it or don't see it in front of them.
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