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Between Greg Smith's grandiose call out of Goldman Sach's unsavory corporate ideology to Facebook's lauded hackathons, company culture is having a moment. Here's what the experts say about creating, sustaining, and changing the spirit that can make a business go from good to great. Company culture is having a moment.

Between Greg Smith's grandiose call out of Goldman Sach's unsavory corporate ideology to Facebook's lauded hackathons, company culture is having a moment. Here's what the experts say about creating, sustaining, and changing the spirit that can make a business go from good to great

Between Greg Smith's grandiose call out of Goldman Sach's unsavory corporate ideology to Facebook's lauded hackathons, company culture is having a moment.

Between Greg Smith's grandiose call out of Goldman Sach's unsavory corporate ideology to Facebook's lauded hackathons, company culture is having a moment.

Between Greg Smith's grandiose call out of Goldman Sach's unsavory corporate ideology to Facebook's lauded hackathons, company culture is having a moment. Here's what the experts say about creating, sustaining, and changing the spirit that can make a business go from good to great. Company culture is having a moment

Mark Zuckerberg, oft-parodied young CEO, didn't build the most important company of the Internet era by accident. How he fashioned Facebook--and himself--for success. From studying leaders he admired to taking elocution lessons, Zuckerberg made his evolution into a world-class CEO a personal project

Legal matters may be daunting for the inexperienced, but that's no excuse for failing to make sure your venture is on the right side of the law, warns Rocket Lawyer founder Charley Moore.

When making the jump to social media marketing, small enterprises must avoid assuming that customers are ever truly engaged. There’s a turn of phrase that’s been rattling around my head recently—you know the one about being a “victim of your own success?” Sometimes I wonder whether that’s the case with social media evangelists. By any measure, we’ve helped drive ever larger numbers of businesses and independent professionals to start using social-based promotion, which is fine on its face, but how much value has been added to the lives of consumers

Nicholas Kristof has been writing for The New York Times for more than a quarter century and has appeared on that paper's op-ed page since 2001, often penning articles about the struggles of people in distant parts of the world.

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Keith Ferrazzi offers tips for getting your team to work together more quickly and effectively. Welcome back to part 2 of our 2 part interview series with Keith Ferrazzi–speaker, thought-leader and author of New York Times bestseller Never Eat Alone. (Here’s part 1: Networking Secrets for Sales Calls .) Today Keith’s letting us tap into some of his insights on how to make people more productive when they’re working together, and developing solutions together to the problems that we have, especially in the sales process.

As part of our Leadership Hall of Fame series, we continue our fresh look at The Tipping Point with an interview of author Malcolm Gladwell.

The next time you have a chance, pull a client aside and ask specific questions related to how you're doing. As someone who markets entertainment experiences--meaning I get to watch audiences react in real time--I find the power of human expression and poignant feedback is often far more meaningful than spreadsheet data. That's why I say that the next time you have the chance (and it should be as soon as today), you should pull a client aside and ask specific questions related to how you're doing.

With the economic downturn and the evolution of the business world in the last 10 years, has our ability to succeed on our own changed? We continue our examination of the business book Free Agent Nation with an interview of author Daniel Pink

Despite what you may think, a perfectly crafted email can actually close a deal. In most cases, you’ll want to close deals either in person or on the telephone