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If your personal beliefs don't mesh with a company's corporate culture, you're destined to fail. On Wednesday, the Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith resigned his job by writing a scathing op-ed in the New York Times . In that column, written as an exit letter, he accuses top management of encouraging predatory sales practices that actively hurt customers: "I attend derivatives sales meetings where not one single minute is spent asking questions about how we can help clients

The path of entrepreneurship isnt smooth. Here are five tips to survive the start-up roller coaster.

A new survey asks accountants to name the most common errors small business owners make when filing taxes. Here's what you need to know this tax season. April 15th is looming.

Step 1: Get a mentor who's 10 (or more) years younger than you. See the other tips. A friend of mine came back from a national meeting of sales leaders in her industry and sent me a very frank and telling note.

You'll sell more if you make closing a natural part of your conversation with the customer. There comes a time in every sales conversation when you've got to "ask for the business." For many people—including those who sell for a living—closing is scary

What fast-growing companies need is strategic thinking--not strategic planning. Here are three things smaller companies can do to develop an adaptive, opportunistic approach to strategy.

Your words help you build relationships with customers--so choose them carefully. Awesome photos, catchy videos, and fancy graphics are helpful, but the most important thing where sales are concerned are the words you use

Use these quick and easy rules to make sure your customers keep coming back for more. It's easier to sell to existing customers than to acquire new ones, so it's good sense to keep the customers you've already got. Here are some simple rules to ensure that customers continue to come back for more

Business owners sometimes make these common revenue-killing mistakes.

These behaviors drive employees crazy and limit your own advancement. Here's how to avoid them. Being the boss is hard work, but it's even harder if you're stumbling over your own mistakes

Serious about getting more feedback into your organization? Start by finding out how you're doing. Part 2 of 2.

The effects of a wrong-headed sales strategy, and what to do differently.

Use these 4 steps to get back on track after a big revenue miss.

Are you using informal contacts to drive your business? Here are six relationships that are worth nurturing. No, I am not referring to formal partnerships from a legal perspective, but to connections that are made informally or from a marketing perspective.

The PC has already been replaced by the tablet, in some hugely important and meaningful ways. Its day in the sun is all but over. The New York Times suggests, vaguely , that today on the eve of the iPad 3 announcement the future of the PC looks dim.