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I'm behind in my reading. More than 30 unread books are sitting on my office shelves and another one joins their ranks almost every week. In an attempt to break the logjam, I opened one somewhat randomly and read this�...

I was asked a couple of weeks ago to present to a group on Big Data. The target audience was C-level executives in the SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise) arena. Now in Ireland, this is a very different scale than th...

Sergei Fedorov is generally regarded as the greatest defensive forward in the history of the National Hockey League.  He led the Detroit Red Wings to Stanley Cup championships in 1997, 1998, and 2002, and won a Hart Tro...

When it comes to innovation, smaller organizations often gain an entrepreneurial edge. Among my various sideline endeavors I serve on the Advisory Board of Wendia North America, a provider of ITIL-compatible service man...

This past week I had the pleasure of being a guest at the 13th Annual Forbes Global CEO Conference in Bali, where I was surrounded by some of the most powerful business leaders in the world. Of course, the content was fa...

Make no mistake. Payroll Fraud is real.  According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, it's the number one source of accounting fraud and employee theft.  Check out these statistics:

China's economy is likely to become the largest in the world within a matter of months, if not years. This will happen as a matter of course. What remains to be seen is whether or not the majority of China's citizens wil...

Jena Gardner, founder of a small travel marketing firm, shares her strategy for building a strong team.

You will often see me writing that winning a state domicile change requires a lot more than just getting a new drivers license and registering to vote.  So now comes the case of Michael Duley before the Wisconsin Tax Ap...

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of someday taking their startup public, and making it a multi-national powerhouse. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO - Initial Public Offering) is at an all-time low...

Apple delivers new products that will excite customers at the mid-range an high end.

Young entrepreneurs devise an innovative business model that provides free bike rentals to USC students, and underprivileged children overseas.

We're not just checking in to hotels anymore. In fact, now, no matter where you are, you can "check in" and let your friends know what you're up to. Foursquare describes itself as the "app that helps you and your friends...

In every business, there are hundreds of startups doing pretty much the same thing.

At the Intel developer forum, the company showcased numerous mobile innovations, including its smallest silicon chip ever. Why is this important? The new technology provides a 50 percent performance gain and the chip is...

In the face of slowing iPhone growth and increased competition, Apple unveiled two new iPhones today that technologically and visually do little to set themselves apart from the existing lineup. While the top-end iPhone ...

All the books and movies about Steve Jobs are missing the real message about the late Apple cofounder and CEO, said Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff.

If you don?t have an emergency fund yet, don?t freak out about it. Just get started.

With the market for trusts withering due to the expansion in exemptions from the federal estate tax, estate attorneys are turning to finding ways for rich clients to shuffle money to relatives with the aim of reducing in...

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The idea that parents would question the wisdom of their kids playing full-contact, tackle football is not new. My parents held me out of little kids' football in the late 1970s-early 1980s because they feared my little ...

For both political candidates and start-ups, every single touch point matters. Especially when it's a local race. Especially when you're pre-launch.  Today is the primary election day in New York City and provided an in...