You can tell a lot about a person from their body. And I don’t just mean how many hours they spend at the gym, or how easy it is for them to sweet-talk their way out of speeding tickets. For the past several decades researchers have been studying the ways in which the body reveals properties of the mind
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Feed SubscriptionHow To Get The Most Out Of Google’s Share-Happy World
If Google's going to keep tying all their services together, you may as well know how that will work, and how you can benefit from it. In just over a month, Google will change its privacy policies for all its products. Actually, Google is combining 70 different policies into a single set of rules, defining how the company treats all the personal information you provide
Read More »A Top Chef’s $15 Million Gamble
Brian Malarkey's restaurant ventures are backed by massive investment. But can his social-dining experiment thrive
Read More »6 Mantras for Business Success
These six mantras help keep me focused, and help keep my business sailing along, no matter what the day brings. I’ve founded two companies and co-founded two others, but some days, I still feel like I never know what’s going to hit me next. Luckily, I’ve found a few simple mantras that help me stay steady even when things get ridiculously hairy.
Read More »Men Spend The Big Bucks When Women Are Scarce
Across the animal kingdom, males are competitive when females are scarce. Now a study with people has examined how the number of women affects men’s attitudes about a marker for competitive fitness: Money. Basically, the fewer the women, the more the men threw their money around.
Read More »Do You Have the Personality of an Entrepreneur?
What sort of person chooses this risky life? For me, all it took was some innate orneriness and burning desire for vengeance
Read More »9 Ways to Ruin a Performance Review
It's that time of year again. What seems to be another chore to you is hugely important to your employees -- so don't blow it. Let me guess: You give your employees annual performance evaluations.
Read More »How to Manage Entrepreneurial Personality Disorder
One side of you loves risk; the other side of you can't stand it. Here's how to use your multiple personalities to your advantage. When I was a junior in high school , I was pretty sure I wasn’t ready for college
Read More »8 Common Mistakes of Company Blogs
In the rush toward a social media strategy, many businesses throw up a blog--and then have no idea what to say. Here's what you may be doing wrong. When I consult with clients, I frequently hear, "What do we write about?
Read More »The Psychology of Dictatorship: Kim Jong-Il
As long as there have been political dictators, psychologists have been fascinated with them. While many psychologists try to understand what happens in normal, rational people that leads them to follow such clearly dangerous leaders, some psychologists have been more interested in characterizing the personality profiles of dictators themselves. After all, who hasn’t attempted an armchair psychiatric diagnosis of a famous personality
Read More »The Psychology of Dictatorship: Kim Jong-Il
As long as there have been political dictators, psychologists have been fascinated with them. While many psychologists try to understand what happens in normal, rational people that leads them to follow such clearly dangerous leaders, some psychologists have been more interested in characterizing the personality profiles of dictators themselves. After all, who hasn’t attempted an armchair psychiatric diagnosis of a famous personality
Read More »Let Your Employees Pick Their Titles
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Read More »An iPad In Every Store: Belly Wants Local Merchants And Their Customers To Ditch Those Paper Loyalty Cards
Digital loyalty is a hot topic right now, mainly because store loyalty is a system that's ripe for some technology innovation (all those paper punch-and-stamp cards...so old-fashioned!) and because it can be easier to implement a digital loyalty scheme than launching a full-fledged novel digital payment system--especially for the smaller-sized business, more mom-and-pop than IT geek. It's exactly into this market that Belly is launching today to change everything with a simple iPad. The company's press release notes it "will offer a unique value proposition for small and medium sized businesses by replacing the traditional ‘buy 10 get one free punch cards’ with unique rewards that fit the personality of the business and connect consumers on a much more personalized level." The company was branded as Bellyflop during its pre-startup phase, but today it's rebranding and coming out of private test
Read More »Make Yourself More Marketable on LinkedIn
Somewhere along the line you started treating it more like a resume. It's time to fix that. Overall, LinkedIn is the best social media platform for entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals.
Read More »Maybe CEOs Need a New Title
Chief Executive Officer doesn't reflect the CEO's most important responsibility. Here's a title that does. I propose dropping the "Executive" part of the CEO title
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