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Entrepreneurs come from all over the world, but most share an innate passion for questioning the constraints of ideology and discipline, and identifying practical solutions to problems by combining ingenuity, resourcefulness, and dogged determination. You Never Know Where a Good Idea Is Going to Come From. I'm fascinated by the different types of people I meet in the world and the way their personalities show in what they do.

See which parts of social media and brand stewardship to manage yourself--and which to delegate.

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I just had the most productive week ever. I am a bit of a time-management geek. I’ve met and interviewed some amazing entrepreneurs, CEOs, and politicians.

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If logic had anything to do with it, One Kings Lane , the online shop with daily deals on luxe home furnishings, wouldn’t have made it beyond a friendly conversation about the dearth of destinations to shop for décor between founders Alison Pincus and Susan Feldman. In 2009, U.S. home prices were in free-fall and foreclosures hit record highs as delinquent loans piled up

How knowing that you don't know much can help you make smarter decisions. You probably don't know nearly as much as you think you do. I certainly don't

Tis the season for giving back.

Whenever I ask managers and business leaders about their most pressing problems at work, I’ve been a bit surprised to hear from so many who say they are struggling with a “bad boss” or a hopelessly toxic work environment. A bad boss is a big problem, and not easily fixed

After crunching the numbers, you'll see that you can afford to outsource almost everything that does not contribute to your bottom line.

Folger Shakespeare Library director David Witmore is using 21st-century tools to analyze the Bard's work. When data-mining techniques borrowed from the sciences and business research were applied to classic Shakespearean plays, surprising discoveries were made

After testing it out on himself and 100 other storytellers, Jonathan Harris launches Cowbird, a website that seeks to become the ultimate public library of human experience. Our standard mode of written expression, which started as letter writing, currently hovers around the level of the tweet--140-character missives about anything (or nothing) at all. Perhaps not for long, though.

As the New Year approaches, many of us are thinking about our resolutions. What will we vow to do this coming year to be better--both at what we do for a living, and as members of the human race

Those hours you spend driving each day will soon be interrupted with contextual advertising, pointing you to that Starbucks around the corner or the McDonald's just down the street. Imagine this: You're taking the family for a ride in your new Toyota, when you experience something unnerving

Safe Horizon, the largest nonprofit provider of domestic-violence aid services in the U.S., is thriving under executive director Ariel Zwang, thanks to shrewd tactics she's taken from her experience in the private sector.