Mental stability is underrated': Founder of Stella & Dot Jessica Herrin talks about finding balance in business. Jessica Herrin, founder and CEO of social selling website Stella & Dot , kicked off the last session of the Inc. 500|5000 conference Friday with a high-octane talk on finding balance.
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The matter of mastering a building's energy use, getting maximum performance out of each calorie and electron, is to many people a black art.
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Merisant CEO Paul Block says rather than leave innovation and inspiration to a whim, structure your company and empower employees to think toward the future. The assumption that inspiration only requires people in a room and a conversation is completely false. To channel inspiration and bring innovation to a company, you need a logical structure and organization.
Read More »You Need More Conflict in Your Business
Are you a wuss? Author Patrick Lencioni talks about why a leader who promotes conflict will have a healthy organization
Read More »Humbled, Color’s Bill Nguyen Friends Facebook
Bill Nguyen recently told Fast Company "Facebook is broken." So why is he planning to re-introduce Color, his flop of a $41 million app, in conjunction with Facebook and its f8 developers conference? Nguyen explains.
Read More »Mini-Marketing Strategies
Go big or go home? Forget that. These strategies for increasing your brand influence take hardly any time, and very little money.
Read More »Word-Of-Mouth Marketing: We All Want To Keep Up With The Joneses
It was close to midnight, Pacific Standard Time, as one truck after another crept down a quiet, gated village road in the heart of Laguna Beach, one of the most beautiful oceanside communities in Southern California (as well as one of the most affluent and most expensive). Most of the ornate, sprawling stucco houses were in shadows, their owners asleep--with the exception of the very last house on the block. Considering the time of night, it was unusual to see one, let alone several, vehicles on the road
Read More »Starting Up Against the Odds
Kate Kelly launched Minnesota Bank & Trust amidst the 2008 market crisis. She says shes ready to take it through another. “Here we go again,” Kate Kelly, chief of three-year-old Minnesota Bank & Trust, thought as she saw the market plummeting in early August.
Read More »Video: Tainted cantaloupe recalled, four people dead
Federal health officials confirmed four people in three states have died from the bacterial infection listeria, traced to contaminated cantaloupe from a Colorado farm. Dr. Jennifer Ashton reports
Read More »What Happens When a Risk Pays Off?
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Read More »A Web-Fomented Protest On Wall Street Is Louder Online Than Off
A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical
Read More »A Web-Fomented Protest On Wall Street Is Louder Online Than Off
A modest, recession-inspired demonstration grabs plenty of online attention. Is the future of activism more digital than physical
Read More »Innovation Tips From Nonprofits
What can your business learn from the innovative ways nonprofits operate today? We've tapped the best ideas and business strategies from seven nonprofits. What good could possibly come from one person giving one dollar at time
Read More »How Much is TMI on Your Website?
Most CEOs are hesitant about putting their email address on their company website. Here's why I do it. Yep, I did the unthinkable.
Read More »Why Deals Aren’t Dead–And Why Facebook Will Be Back
When Facebook pulled out of the deals space, some people started predicting the end of the industry as a whole.
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