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Your "on the street" employees can be an important resource for business-building ideas. It’s crazy to think that all great ideas need to come from you or from your top managers. Chances are, your employees who are your “feet on the street” know more about your customers than you might

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The business plan is the easy part. Managing and leading a team? That's where the learning curve gets very steep.

Behind the spandex and the melodrama of those WWE matches, there's solid business advice. Seriously. There’s a professional wrestling term —please don’t ask me how I know this—that you should apply to your business

What's the most important lesson entrepreneurs should learn from Steve Jobs? Gary Hamel, a management expert, believes it's how to talk to your employees. Have you told your employees you love them recently

Do your employees know when to throw out the rule book and let your philosophy guide their responses to the unexpected? Recently I saw a "pop-up" concert performed by my friend Lenni Jabour at a big-box book retailer named Indigo in downtown Toronto. A pop-up show is an unannounced event in a public space, and in Lenni's case, she has chosen to commandeer pianos lying dormant in public places–without permission.

Renting with Airbnb, RIM layoffs, Facebook iPad app revealed, and more.

Checking in on your employees, tips on videoblogging, how to keep in touch while on vacation, and more.