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It doesn't matter what you build, invent or sell; your organization can't move forward without people. CEOs, company founders and managers the world over know that keeping the teams beneath them moving forward together i...

Sometimes I think the IRS gets it flat out wrong when it denies exempt status.  I'm going to call the group that got denied in PLR 201335025, the Ale-Free Dungeon (AFD).  It looked to me like the source of the problem ...

As as an entrepreneur I almost never vacation. On the rare occasions I do step away from the office for more than a weekend I'd love to say I leave the Apple products at home and lose myself in the wilderness but I'd be...

What if Microsoft selects Elop as the successor to Ballmer? He may be the best-suited person for the job and a renewed interest in investing in Microsoft.

The Impact Engine, a social enterprise accelerator in Chicago, is launching its second session--with some changes.

I recently wrote about Yahoo! and specifically its CEO's efforts to revitalize the laggard Internet brand, a brand that started life alongside Altavista, another once-dominant Web brand whose fate Yahoo! hopes not to ...

Drive, dedication, professionalism, special teams and the ability to roll with the occasional oddball request.

So far 2013 has been a big year for readers and technology. We’ve seen startups like Memphis’ ScrewPulp offering a new kind of self publishing platform. We saw Amazon’s Jeff Bezos add the digital download to tradit...

When the Chicago Bulls ruled the court in the 1990's they had two big weapons: Michael Jordan, and an extremely solid team behind him, because basketball is a team sport.  Two weeks ago VMware hit the court with their n...

Reports that the NSA has developed mechanisms for reading data encrypted with many of today's standard encryption mechanisms raise the question: Is there any way to send a message across the Internet that nobody other th...

By Stephanie Tilenius, an executive in residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

For women leaders, business can be a minefield of personal image challenges. Experts estimate that up to 95 percent of our communication is nonverbal, so even as women achieve more prominent platforms, the majority of wh...

What to create a better company? Don't try to do everything yourself.

It's hard to miss the string of IRS video hits to surface over the past year.  You don't even have to read, just watch them. After the stink over IRS Tax Dollars Spent Making Star Trek Video, then there was Step Up...

Nick Timiraos wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday about how mortgage rates on loans eligible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchase are higher than those that are not--loans with balances that exceed th...

Week one has arrived for the new NFL season and fans are in final countdown for the Sunday ritual of fall.  Millions will be watching from home, and about a million will be watching in stadiums around the country.  As ...