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Managers can attest to this experience: You ask an employee to carry out a task that has enough flexibility for creative input. Rather than making their own decisions, the employee comes to you with an onslaught of quest...

There are some really bad things that can happen to you if you are not tax compliant.  Depending on what you do, you could be subject to a 75% fraud penalty or even forfeit your liberty - an all expenses paid stay at Cl...

There’s a disturbing, defeatist trend in certain corners of business life today, and in much of the writing, speaking, and plain old attitude among business "thought leaders" (a term that makes me think of the Life of ...

Markets were born when humans chose to acquire what they needed by trading with each other rather than producing it themselves or taking from someone else by force. The moment of proto-market conception was when the firs...

The excerpt below comes from Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Technology Report’s  recent full-length interview in with Randy Garutti, the CEO of Shake Shack who has led the New York-based burger chain for the past eight year...

A dark cloud has been forming over Silicon Valley. It's as if people are losing patience with all that the bay area represents. It?s no random phenomenon: In a nutshell, technology is being applied in ways the public fee...

These Techstars founders know accelerators are grinding, but armed with their secrets, you can kill it.

A new study shows that CEOs who are related to the owners of family-owned firms work significantly fewer hours than non-family CEOs.

Find out how advice from two garbage men can help you clean out the mental garbage that gets in the way of personal and professional success.

This article is by Simon Hay, global CEO of Dunnhumby.

Jim Blasingame is a moderate revolutionary. He’s a revolutionary because he knows that recent technology has upended business relationships. He’s moderate because he recognizes that some core values, such as trust an...

To most parents, the question of whether the government should intervene to dictate how a child should be raised is an easy one.  Parents, not the court system, should decide what is best for their children -- in the ab...

Machine learning is a key differentiator between mere "plumbing" of data-centric solutions and the next generation of "smart plumbing."

What would the consequences of the London Whale have been if Dimon?s bank had been owned by an entrepreneur or a family?

Sure, there's billions to made in startups. Well, some startups anyway.

The simultaneous presentation of Nobel Economics Prizes to Professors Fama and Shiller, who hold diametrically opposite views of the stock market, illustrates a big problem with the current state of financial economics. ...

The Super Bowl is this Sunday. Perhaps you heard the news. It is of course perhaps the greatest single, one day spectacle in the history of one day spectacles. The game on the field has become secondary for many to the o...

While Mexico’s constitution has long protected the right of indigenous groups to form their own policing and justice systems. The “community police” currently battling the Caballeros Templarios cartel in southweste...

FATCA is a Juggernaut Requiring Banks Worldwide to Expel Americans Who Don't Fly Right With the IRS.

There is an old saying that we are three people: the person we think we are, the person others think we are, and the person we really are. How employees see themselves is a by-product of many factors, but one in particul...

A little guerrilla marketing will improve your app's SEO and skyrocket your user base.

Rapid growth can be a perilous thing. One day everything is going well. Revenues are rising, your customers are happy and you really couldn’t want anything more from your employees.