Be a Better Manager with These 4 Tips
Are you leading your employees to the best of your ability? Brian Tracy, speaker and top-selling author, shares four essential actions for leaders who want to bring their team to success. For motivational and effective leadership, a leader must: 1. Keep people in the know. Your goal is to become a transformational leader—the kind of […]
Co-Working Is More Than Shared Office Space
Community, collaboration and productivity all have one thing in common: They are all benefits of the new co-working movement. Co-working sites, which first appeared in the United States in 2006, are collegial, shared open-plan areas where people work independently but communally. Members are varied in what they do and why they join, but they include […]
Reading List: The Path Redefined
Lauren Maillian Bias writes that from ages 8 through 12 she operated a lemonade stand on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that netted up to $300 a day. At age 19—before she was even old enough to drink legally—this enterprising young woman became the chief operating officer of a highly regarded boutique winery in West Virginia. […]
The Telephone Rang and It Was Maya Angelou
It’s funny what interviews make you nervous, which people you think of as “30-minute” subjects, and which ones you can’t stop talking to. For me, most of the movie stars have been easy; they answer everything, they don’t miss a beat and they are usually predictable. Then there are the unlikely people who have intimidated […]
Reading List: Business Without the Bullsh*t
Inc.com blogger Geoffrey James offers practical approaches to cut through the froth, falsehood and malevolence that often seep into business interactions. Divided into seven parts, each containing seven secrets, Business Without the Bullsh*t tackles topics such as handling unreasonable requests, achieving career security and dealing with the 10 types of annoying co-workers. In Part VII, […]
A Better Way to Answer ‘How Have You Been?’
What have you accomplished in the past year? Don’t like the answers? Wish you had better ones, more fulfilling ones? You can—just one year from now. You have within yourself the power to decide that when someone asks you just one year from now, “What have you been up to?” you will respond, “Let me […]
Reading List: The Glitter Plan
After their first fashion enterprise, a maternity clothing line, ran out of steam, friends and business partners Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor took what they’d learned about production, marketing and sourcing and applied it to their new venture, a line of upscale, form-fitting T-shirts. They didn’t have a traditional business plan or a line of […]
Eddie Murphy and the Power of Positive Thinking
The comedian’s surprising secret to success
Tech Tools: 6 Cool Wearable Gadgets
[[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_large”,”fid”:”20484″,”attributes”:{“alt”:””,”class”:”media-image”,”height”:”350″,”style”:”width: 480px; height: 350px;”,”typeof”:”foaf:Image”,”width”:”480″}}]] Qualcomm Toq (Toq-Store.Qualcomm.com) Armed with excellent battery life and a bright touch-screen that auto-adjusts to your ambient surroundings, the Toq means business. Like most smartwatches, it allows you to accept incoming calls (via an included earpiece), see new texts and receive alerts. But the $249.99 Toq is as much an entertainment […]
Anne Sweeney: Channel Changer
(Editor's Note: Since this article's newsstand publication, Anne Sweeney has decided to leave her post at Disney to pursue a career in directing.) Anne Sweeney remembers the day she was in her Burbank, Calif., office sitting across from a colleague who was lecturing her about the iPad’s small screen and why it wasn’t fit for […]
John C. Maxwell: How to Become an Idea Catalyst
Mike Duke spent 16 years working for retailers that competed with Wal-Mart. So when he joined Wal-Mart’s executive team, Mike had a pretty good idea of what made the discount retailer so tough to beat. “When you thought you had Wal-Mart pegged,” Duke once said in a magazine interview, “they’d be evolving into something else.” […]
Reading List: F.I.R.E.
These days business books are full of four-letter words; flex and flow immediately come to mind. And now there’s F.I.R.E., the four-letter acronym of the book’s title, which posits that spending less time, money and manpower on a project or product—whether it’s a NASA mission, military equipment, a bridge or a dishwasher—often leads to better […]
