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A CEO has to weigh his ideals against financial reality The room was cool, but emotions were not.

Why do you put things off, buy over-priced items, and stick with decisions that aren't paying off? Your strangely wired brain, silly.

From The Art of War to Team of Rivals, the 12 management books you should read now (if you haven't already) The against-all-odds survival tale of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his 27-member crew is one of the most timeless leadership allegories out there.

He also announced the SBA will double its investment in rural small business over the next five years. President Barack Obama told an audience in rural Iowa that economic recovery must be led by small businesses and entrepreneurs and "isn't going to be driven by Washington." Obama was opening a forum on the rural economy at Northeast Community College in Peosta on his second of three days travelling by bus through the Midwest. Tuesday he also announced that the Small Business Administration will double its current rate of investment in rural small businesses to $350 million over the next five years.

B2B companies have traditionally been laggards in social media , unlike their quick-adopting consumer counterparts. One reason is that B2B doesn’t facilitate the instant easy connections with customers or prospects that B2C can do so well

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Aaron Levie, No. 59 on our list of the Most Creative People in Business, has a simple vision : Users should be able to share and access their content from anywhere, on any device. But as simple as that notion sounds, the execution is far from effortless for Levie, the co-founder and CEO of cloud-storage startup Box (formerly Box.net)

Flying about 460 meters above the seas off Alaska in 2004 on the hunt for bowhead whales, federal wildlife biologist Charles Monnett and colleagues spotted four white blobs floating in the water. The white blobs were polar bears , which drowned in the open ocean following a powerful Arctic storm.

A debt deal may have been reached, but experts from all over the political spectrum say small businesses are unlikely to see benefits anytime soon. After weeks of heated debate , Congress and the White House have finally reached a debt deal to save the United States from defaulting. But according to experts, the deal—and the political bickering that came with it—will do little to help small businesses.

CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports on historic new health rules that require health insurance companies to cover birth control for women. Then, Chris Wragge talks to White House Deputy Senior Adviser Stephanie Cutter about the new rules and the history of how they came into effect.

PGA Tour rookie Scott Stallings won the Greenbrier Classic on Sunday, sinking a birdie putt on the first playoff hole to beat Bob Estes and Bill Haas.

Add another species to the long list of plants and animals being eaten out of existence so men can try to get it up in the bedroom. This time, instead of medically useless tiger penises or sea turtle eggs, it's an African plant called White's ginger ( Mondia whitei ), often wrongly referred to as "white ginger." It goes by many names in Africa, most notably mukombero in Kenya, where it is said that chewing the root of the plant or drinking it in tea form can boost virility and stamina in the bedroom [More]

Brendon de Jonge and Webb Simpson share the lead halfway through the Greenbrier Classic.

Trevor Immelman's best round of the year reinforced the former Masters champion's belief that he can regain his top form less than two years after wrist surgery.

Rather than get stuck trying to come up with the next great innovation, consider these nine reasons why you might be better off imitating and improving upon an existing idea.