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The Five Things Successful Working Parents Give Up To Reach A Work-Life Balance
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 22:39
Working parents who successfully balance their parenting responsibilities with their career duties give up these five things in order to achieve harmony.
Pareto Principle: How To Use It To Dramatically Grow Your Business
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 18:39
Learn the exponential power of the Pareto Principle.
For The Largest Not-For-Profit MOOC, edX, Experimentation Is The Path To Innovation
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 18:09
MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Anant Agarwal has personified the educator-entrepreneur, as he has had a foot in academe and a foot in new ventures for more than a decade. He has led CSAIL, MIT?...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Struggle With Black America's Capital To Labor Ratio
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 17:52
Near the end of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. admitted the Civil Rights Movement had not addressed the root economic condition of Black America
You Know You're A Mom Entrepreneur When...
Forbes - 21 Jan 2014 01:36
Below is my part of my interview with Charlotte Pickering: successful practicing lawyer, mother of two and founder/CEO of Fancytotz and KiddyUp! In it she shares lots of great advice about when to start your own busi...
Is Kent Hovind A Tax Protester?
Forbes - 21 Jan 2014 01:34
Kent Hovind (Doctor Dino) is one of the leading lights in the field of "Creation Science". He is a champion of the extreme view known as "Young Earth Creationism". If you carefully read the Book of Genesis and sum up...
Stifling Women's Online Speech With Sexual Harassment: Why It Matters To Social Change Movements
Forbes - 21 Jan 2014 01:32
If you live and breathe and are connected to the digital world, you have seen it. Gender bashing, vicious attacks on female voices, efforts to stifle women's intellectual and social agency. Rank sexism. Misogyny.
The Sum Of All Risks: Why China Is Heading For A Greek Style Crisis On A Grand Scale
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 23:45
One arm of the government lends funds to another arm of the government, and everyone is happy, until someone must pay the bill. Then the situation turns ugly. That's what happened in Greece in 2011, when the country's se...
The Nine Letter Word Every Marketer Needs To Remember At All Times
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 21:08
On December 16th of last year I posted a collection of predictions for the coming year from and for the marketing and advertising world. The fearless forecasters I gathered together shared their insights into what they t...
Germany's Privacy Stance Boosts Berlin's Tech Start ups
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 20:00
With hundreds of millions of Euros invested in its tech start ups the city of Berlin is a hotspot for innovative entrepreneurs looking to create the next big thing. Among the savviest are those with their head around Ger...
28 Years of Getting It Wrong: The NFL Is Still Working on Instant Replay
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 19:36
The NFL invented instant replay, or at least CBS? Tony Verna, who directed game telecasts, did. The league instituted it as part of an in-game review system in 1986... and has been getting it wrong ever since.
Schumpeter Got Innovation Wrong, And Other Myth-Busting Ideas From A Nobel Prize Economist
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 19:27
Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps sees a US which has gotten itself stuck in a low innovation rut, and to make matters worse, he sees a public discussion which itself is stuck in a rut of old ideas.
7 Ways Leaders Maintain Their Composure in Difficult Times
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 19:18
Leaders need to show more composure than ever before in the workplace. With the change management requirements, increased marketplace demands and intensifying competitive factors that surround us, leaders must have great...
A Record Year For Israel's Technology Market With Acquisitions And IPOs Totaling $7.6 Billion
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 18:12
Start-Up Nation topped the charts in 2013.
Maximize Your Team's Productivity Through Technology
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 18:00
Until recently, adding SaaS on top of SaaS could accidentally derail productivity. Newer, more intuitive tools make starting up (from anywhere) a reality.
Resolutions All Small Business Owners Should Make In 2014
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 18:00
Taking the time to think through your strategies and tactics for achieving your business of the business and committing to getting it done will go a long way towards achieving your personal vision of success.
Just Tell Me! 5 Strategies For Giving Difficult Feedback
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 17:59
Imagine you?re walking down the hall and your boss is coming toward you. As you get a few feet apart, the boss says, ?Could you come into the office for a few minutes? I?ve got some feedback for you.? First, what?s...
5 Entrepreneurship Lessons from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 17:59
As we celebrate the life, achievements, and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., entrepreneurs should take note of five important business lessons that can be learned from him, and his role in the Civil Rights movement...
20 Most Active Seed Investors Outside Silicon Valley
Nibletz - 20 Jan 2014 17:55
Silicon Valley might have the most density, but everywhere else dominates the most active seed investors in 2013.
A Girl From Nepal Takes Kids Out Of Prison And Becomes Their Mother. A Personal Story.
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 17:37
Imagine, at five years old, you are sentenced to prison for 13 years. You have no access to your friends and family, to an education, to the outside world or to society.
Why I'm Bootstrapping My Startup In The Alaskan Wilderness
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 12:37
Meet a founder who is opting to build her beauty business from a log cabin smack dab in the middle of nowhere.
Bank Competition, No Simple Solution
Forbes - 20 Jan 2014 23:09
One can tell that the UK general election is just over one year away. New policy prescriptions are flowing thick and fast from the three leading parties. Unfortunately there are three areas where the opposition Labour P...