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Since when does a mea culpa deserve praise? JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon shows how low the leadership bar can go. If you watch certain financial news shows you'd think that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is a genius.

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The capital gains tax has been touted as the brass ring for business owners. But if you self-fund your growth, it's anything but.

India’s leopards are dying at a rate of at least one per day, according to a report released this week by the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI).

In the 21st century, Girl Scouts from all over the world can get together in the virtual realm to do good and learn skills for success. Here's how CEO Ana Maria Chavez is helping organize new digital troops. When Ana Maria Chavez was a 10-year-old growing up in Eagle, Arizona, her friend came to her one day and told her that her mother was starting a Girl Scout troop and that she wanted Ana Maria to join

With the current brouhaha over Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s defunding of breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood, the backlash, the reversal, and the exposure of the source of the initial decision, it’s obvious that Planned Parenthood is in a constant storm of contentious political struggle (even if the most recent dust-up was an unplanned branding bonanza ). And, it’s been happening for a long time.

A communication coach offers a bevy of tips on how entrepreneurs who don't naturally excel at self-promotion can shed their cloak of invisibility and get noticed.

Turnaround specialist Glen Blickenstaff, in the last of five articles, explains how to turn a failing company into a breakout success. This week he offers a five step process to maintain momentum. There has been a lot of talk about CEO skill sets

Your genetic tolerance for risk, coupled with new productivity gains through smart technology, can help your company revolutionize its industry. Mankind's most innovative , large-scale achievements: building the Pyramids of Egypt and the Panama Canal—even putting a man on the moon—were each accomplished with roughly the same number of people: 100,000. Luis von Ahn, the Carnegie Mellon professor who researched these epic projects, makes the observation that 100,000 may well be the practical limit on the number people it was possible to organize, using pre-Internet technology.

AUSTIN, Texas Astrophysicists have a funny attitude toward magnetic fields. You might say they feel both repelled and attracted. Gravitation is assumed to rule the cosmos, so models typically neglect magnetism, which for most researchers is just as well, because the theory of magnetism has a forbidding reputation

With the Japanese launch of Sony's new handheld gaming device PlayStation Vita this weekend, the company is hoping to outplay not only the Nintendo 3DS, but also smartphones and tablets. We spoke with Sony's director of hardware marketing John Koller about how Vita can compete in the brave new portable world.

It’s difficult to come up with a snappy intro to a story like this: Kim Jong-il is dead of a heart attack at age 69. It’s also hard to deny that he was fascinating to watch, somewhat like a train-wreck writ large. But as interesting as Kim himself was as a world leader, it is the society that surrounded him that has always captured my attention

It’s difficult to come up with a snappy intro to a story like this: Kim Jong-il is dead of a heart attack at age 69. It’s also hard to deny that he was fascinating to watch, somewhat like a train-wreck writ large.

By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine A mutation that appeared more than half a million years ago may have helped humans learn the complex muscle movements that are critical to speech and language.

If your business strategy includes financial targets, sales goals, or mission statements, you're doing it all wrong.