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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.
Read More »Soil Erosion Increasing Global Warming Threat
By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - Global warming will get worse as agricultural methods accelerate the rate of soil erosion, which depletes the amount of carbon the soil is able to store, a United Nations' Environment Programme report said on Monday. [More]
Read More »6 Emotions That Make Customers Buy
Customers make decisions at the gut level. Here's how to use the customer's emotions to your advantage. Customers make purchasing decisions because they have carefully considered a set of good information, right
Read More »10 Tips: Find a Great Coworking Space
Get out of your garage: A shared office for your start-up company can improve your productivity and help keep costs low. In my recent outreach to keep costs low for entrepreneurs, "solopreneurs" and startups, a recurring suggestion from many of my "start-up warriors" was the idea of working in community. Here's why: Community work spaces bring together people with different backgrounds, thoughts and approaches
Read More »Sticky bacteria and the benefits of staying still
I’ve written before about the many ways that bacteria can move around. Considering that they’re just one cell long, micro-organisms have a whole range of ways to travel through their little world. Movement is useful for finding food and for changing your environment when all nearby resources have been exhausted
Read More »Are You a Sales Star? It Depends
The ability to sell at the highest level is the result of genetics. But this doesn't mean you can't be a sales star. I recently had a conversation with John Asher, the CEO of the sales training firm Asher Training , where he cited research that at least 50 percent of success in sales is directly related to natural talent.
Read More »Are You a Sales Star? It Depends
The ability to sell at the highest level is the result of genetics. But this doesn't mean you can't be a sales star
Read More »How Speeding The "Most Important Algorithm Of Our Lifetime" Could Change This Modern World
Math breakthroughs don't often capture the headlines--but MIT researchers have just made one that could lead to all sorts of amazing technological breakthroughs that in just a few years will touch every hour of your life. Last week at the Association for Computing Machinery's Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) a new way of calculating Fast Fourier Transforms was presented by a group of MIT researchers
Read More »Competitors Who Bully — and How to Fight Them
Bigger, wealthier rivals can and will stack the deck against you. And they will involve lawyers.
Read More »Is Private Equity Right For Your Business?
Private equity's been getting a bad rap recently. But for some business owners, it's the best way to get growth capital.
Read More »Disruptive Innovation, Dog-Food Edition
Believe it or not, at one point we actually fed our pets real food. That was, until people-food companies realized they could maximize their resources by mashing together all of their scrap meat, leftover grains, eggshells, and bones, injecting some vitamins, and cooking it up into “kibble.”
Read More »Crowd-sourcing the Future of Accelerators
(PhysOrg.com) -- Accelerator technology has made huge leaps forward, prompting important developments well beyond high energy physics in areas as diverse as energy and the environment, medicine, industry, national security and discovery science. But the capacity to translate accelerator breakthroughs into commercial applications has lagged behind.
Read More »Dysfunctional Family? You’d Make a Great Entrepreneur
Most successful founders are no strangers to chaos and stress. In fact, they learned how to deal with it gracefully at a very young age. If you’ve never founded a company , rest assured it never happens as elegantly and smoothly as articles in Inc
Read More »Video: Primatene Mist banned to protect environment
The FDA issued a ban on the over-the-counter Primatene Mist Asthma inhaler because of its damaging effects on the environment. Debbye Turner Bell reports.
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