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What happens to entrepreneurs who refuse to forgive themselves for their mistakes?
Read More »How to Be Popular at Work
If you want to be appreciated at work, make sure everyone else feels welcome. Whenever people gather in any social setting, there is always one person who becomes the primary center of attention. People want to be around that person, and unconsciously seek his or her approval.
Read More »How to Be Popular at Work
If you want to be appreciated at work, make sure everyone else feels welcome. Whenever people gather in any social setting, there is always one person who becomes the primary center of attention. People want to be around that person, and unconsciously seek his or her approval.
Read More »Make Your Worst Employee a Key Asset
You can't save your weakest staffers. But you can use them as an way to upgrade your whole team's performance. You've heard the adage, "Hire the right people, and everything else is easy." That may be true, but it's also unrealistic—especially in start-ups and rapidly growing, innovative businesses.
Read More »Make Your Worst Employee a Key Asset
You can't save your weakest staffers.
Read More »Could a Divorce Wreck Your Business?
The biggest business risk that everyone overlooks is the one that starts at home. Here's what to do if your marriage cracks. Risk?
Read More »Could a Divorce Wreck Your Business?
The biggest business risk that everyone overlooks is the one that starts at home. Here's what to do if your marriage cracks.
Read More »Now’s a Good Time to Reward Employees
If the economy gets better and job prospects improve, you may need to offer more incentives to keep your best employees. I recently hosted SurePayroll’s version of the People's Choice Awards, the SureChoice Awards.
Read More »Made in USA (Again): Why Manufacturing Is Coming Home
Mismanaged supply chain decisions sent manufacturing overseas. But the industry has changed direction
Read More »Made in USA: 6 Companies That Came Home
Manufacturing in America is hardly on the way out. In fact, it's just beginning to come back. Over the last four decades, a combination of outsourcing and offshoring sent thousands—if not millions—of manufacturing jobs overseas
Read More »How Wine.com Came to Dominate its Market
Since Mike Osborn founded Wine.com in 1998, he has tackled a complex web of state-by-state regulations, and effectively shut out competitors. Wine.com sales were $60 million in 2011.
Read More »4 Social Media Secrets From The Hunger Games
Everyone is talking about it. And that's no accident
Read More »7 Smart Tricks for Using Google Analytics
Most businesses aren't taking full advantage of free, available website data. Here are a few items you are probably missing.
Read More »Problem-Solving: What Your Style Says About You
Which problem-solving technique do you use? Here's four examples--as well as what each conveys about you and your company (for better or worse). As a business owner, employer, and customer, nothing irks me more than lousy problem-solving skills
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