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Don’t Know the Best Way to Build a Site? Are you stuck trying to figure out the most affordable and manageable way to build the website your business, product or service desperately needs? This is the...
View ArticleHow to Reward Your Stellar Team
Set clear objectives Team members have to understand and agree on what success looks like. “You need to have some way of assessing the group’s performance — a common set of objectives or aspirations,”...
View ArticleHow Startup Valuation Works – Illustrated
How would you measure the value of a company? Especially, a company that you started a month ago – how do you determine startup valuation? That is the question you will be asking yourself when you look...
View ArticleThe New Rules of SEO – Citibank®
What to do and not do in in Search Engine Optimization. If you are looking for the basics in promoting your website in search engines such as Google or Bing, we recommend starting here. Citibank® – The...
View ArticleUsing Vine as a Business Platform
Vine is a new platform which encourages people to share six minute videos with others. Find out how you might be able to use it in business to connect with others. How Your Brand Can Flirt on Vine –...
View ArticleIBM Trying to Create New Computer Brain
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Scientists from IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled a breakthrough software ecosystem designed for programming silicon chips that have an architecture inspired by the function, low power,...
View ArticleCGI America 2013 Meeting Report
Thought leaders come together at the Clinton Global Initiative to tackle global issues, in particular economic and social challenges. It was a chance to share knowledge and build partnerships. Timely...
View ArticleThe #1 Ranked Culture of Quicken Loans
How does the culture of your business compare with that of the #1 ranked company for IT professionals to work at? Here are the “isms” spelled out from Quicken Loans. Fostering innovation and creativity...
View ArticleSpice Up Your Boring Presentations with Prezi
Are your presentations boring? We thought so. A great way to add drama and professionalism to your business presentations is to become familiar with and use Prezi online. Take you power point...
View ArticleDeadlines Provide Motivation
What happens when we move back deadlines — once we get past the initial feeling of sweet relief? Research suggests we have a lot of difficulty using our newly-found time wisely. We wind up facing the...
View ArticleNew Ranking Factors for SEO
What are the real factors that search engines such as Google use to rank your website? As Google continues to try to make all the world’s information more useful, they continue to modify how a webpage...
View ArticleDisplays of Confidence in Men
In my view, the main reason for the uneven management sex ratio is our inability to discern between confidence and competence. That is, because we (people in general) commonly misinterpret displays of...
View ArticleIT Exponentially Calibrates Methods and Processes
Ramp up distinctive digital capabilities quickly. Digital capabilities are about methods, processes and people — and a truly digital IT organization is different from traditional IT. It requires new...
View ArticleYour Nice Boss May Be Killing Your Career
Over a twelve-month period I have gathered data from 1,000 managers about their experiences at over 100 companies including Apple, Cisco, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Novel, and Symantec. I wanted to...
View ArticleCreativity and Competitive Advantage
The unspoken assumption is that our goal is to gain competitive advantage, to crush the competition, to win. But I believe that the best creativity comes from a much deeper place than the desire to...
View ArticleEmbrace Randomness, Like an Ant
This article from Harvard Business Review argues that ants are able to find the somewhat random locations of food and communicate this information to other members of the colony. How is your...
View ArticleNegative Feedback & Backlash
More detail in praise and in criticism is helpful. General comments are not all that helpful when seeking to improve yourself or your skills. Sometimes backlash is just a way for some to get at you and...
View ArticleWhen Innovating, Don’t Rush to Solutions
It is so easy to rush in with a tried and true solution to a problem. This article argues that that may not be the best way to approach problem solving. When we rush to find a solution, we run the risk...
View ArticleHumans Connect with 5 Sense Protocols
Today’s Challenge: How do you communicate on the only frequencies available to humans? Computers connect through wired or wireless paths and transmit signals in order to share information. So how do...
View ArticleValue in Writing
Today’s Bright Idea for September 25, 2013 Your true value as a writer comes from speaking what you know inside of you to be true, regardless of whether any one else on the planet believes it to be so....
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