Todd Duncan: The Easy Road Is the Wrong Road
Reading List: The Truth About Trust
To trust or not to trust, that is the question Northwestern University psychology professor David DeSteno explores in his exhaustive—but ultimately inconclusive—examination of the human longing to believe in another person’s integrity and reliability. Trust is a factor in all human interactions. We trust that the gasoline we’re pumping into our car is actually gasoline. […]
Janice Fraser: Minimize Failure
Collaborative Consumption: Share and Share Alike
In suburban Boston, a woman hires a handyman to assemble her new IKEA armoire. A couple in Austin, Texas, puts you up in their cozy guest house for $65 a night. A Georgia woman rents her sewing machine for $15 a day. Cars, power tools, parking spaces—most anything is now available for rent, loan or […]
Kauffman Series: An Entrepreneur’s Motivation
The Impossibles: Making the Impossible Possible
Alli Rainey was clinging to a sheer rock overhang 120 feet above the ground when she felt her fingers go numb. She’d spent the last 40 minutes painstakingly working herself up a route called Madness in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. Now at the most difficult part of the climb, she realized the muscles in her […]
4 Brain Hacks to Up Your Productivity
1. Schedule it. Enter onto your calendar every new productive habit you want to establish, whether it’s exercising, waking earlier, having a date night with your spouse or eating lunch away from your desk. Treat these as important as appointments with other people. 2. Worst first. Before quitting time, ask yourself, “If I got nothing else accomplished […]
Reading List: Perfecting Your Pitch
Whether you’re negotiating a raise, reconciliation or business deal, your success in large part hinges on your ability to calmly yet forcefully articulate your position and anticipate and answer challenges to your argument. The key to handling delicate negotiations is to prepare what you’ll say and practice how you’re going to say it, writes attorney, […]
Todd Duncan: Get ‘Naked’ to Deal with Failure
John C. Maxwell: Improve Yourself
Time for a history lesson: The Stone Age didn’t end because humans ran out of rocks. It ended because we kept learning and improving. If you think about it, the desire for self-improvement is written into our DNA. Through the ages, the most successful people have been those who could tap into their deep drive […]
Kauffman Series: Will You Be the Next Great Entrepreneur?
Fast Lane to Funding
For almost four decades, the “Giant Hamburg” sign in Springfield, Mo., beckoned Route 66 motorists as well as locals to pause for a bite at Red’s diner, believed to be the nation’s first drive-through. Red’s and much of the iconic highway are long gone. But thanks to crowdfunding, the sign is making a comeback as […]
