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New psychological research shows that mild intoxication can actually boost creative problem solving. So, go ahead

You can charge more than your competition once you learn how to make price irrelevant.

Never let these phrases pass the lips of your customer service team. Almost nothing leads to a customer service meltdown more quickly than the use of one particularly offensive phrase

Hiring? Young veterans with a true entrepreneurial inclination can thrive at a start-up

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.

You ask a ton of questions. Your process is exhaustive -- and exhausting. And that might be your problem

There are lots of tools designed to help you come up with innovative solutions. But sometimes the best one is a sledgehammer.

Science and math won't improve U.S. job prospects

Wieden bakes major brands and the Portland tech community into a fresh PIE. When Wieden + Kennedy launched its tech incubator, the Portland Incubator Experiment in 2009, the effort proved a fruitful collaboration between the ad agency and local tech talent; it even spawned a few going tech concerns

Sunni Brown , M.P.A., is owner of BrightSpot I.D., a company specializing in visual thinking to support problem-solving in business.

Andrew Yang, through Venture for America, wants to send an army of new college grads out to start-ups in cities nationwide and help resuscitate their faltering economies. Andrew Yang believes entrepreneurs can help save cities, especially those whose economies have been ravaged by the recession.

Problem solving is a skill that start-ups need to learn quickly.

Four years ago, investors gingerly handed over seed money to Lumosity, a startup creating brain games. Today they're happily tossing the same company $32 million

How were the top companies of the 1980s so successful?