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Trimming the fat is great; cutting to the bone will reduce your revenues, your profits, and your survival prospects. We recently heard a CFO bragging about his ability to improve the profitability of companies: “I have worked with three businesses, and in each of them I have managed to increase profits while revenue is falling.” We’ve seen this mindset in a number of incarnations, typically from finance people (it’s tough for us finance guys to admit that) who work for a private equity firm or a portfolio company.

Want to grow your business? Do what men do.

A Procter & Gamble chief defends marketing cutbacks by referring to the less expensive benefits of digital marketing. Um, really

A cognitive psychologist has developed a toolkit to help anyone be more inventive by shedding their preconceived ideas and thinking like a kid. Every entrepreneur is trying to do something new and better. If your business doesn't improve in some way on the other dry cleaner in town or other app in the space, then why bother starting it, right?

The other day I really wasn’t paying much attention to the AM news station in my car until I heard a commercial for a web-based company imaginatively branded Reputation.com . I got to wondering about this kind of service, and when I typed “reputation management” into a search engine I was taken aback to see more than 10 million results

These days, if you can't lead your company through rapid, continual change, you can't lead. It is easy to change things. It is hard to change people

It's not enough to have just one way of leading: Different circumstances require separate management styles. When it comes to leadership it doesn't matter if you manage a company with 500 employees or one where you are the only employee. Either environment will disprove the myth that leaders should stick to just one leadership style that they have perfected.

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Tim Cook is a very different chap to his predecessor, in many ways from his business know-how to his education and manner of speech . We got more insight into all of these during his address at Goldman Sachs yesterday--including a long spiel and a Q&A session that gave us many more public Cook words to analyze.

The Ex-Im Bank is under threat of being tapped dry and is facing imminent stoppages for financing small-business exporting. The National Small Business Association and the Small Business Exporters Association is urging for the reauthorization of the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) and an increased lending cap

Can you really trademark a babys name? Absolutely

Afraid of failing?

If you can't get past the excuses, your deal is doomed. Make sure you've got these 5 elements in place. If you've ever tried to sell anything, you've heard one of these comments—either from your own prospects or via your sales people: "It's not in the budget right now" "I have to speak with the owner" "It's not our No.

I am sitting in a bakery minutes from my house, steps away from the train station, watching still-sleepy counter workers shuffling brioches and muffins to a rising flow of customers. I shouldn’t be here. I should be on that train now leaving the station, heading into New York City.

Those tiny plastic USB memory sticks you've got on your desk or skulking in your laptop bag's pocket are soon to be relegated to the past. Innovation, and the mobile tech revolution, is to blame