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What distinguishes the real leader, the man or woman who makes a tangible difference in the work place, from a mere administrator? Where does real leadership begin? How do great leaders turn subordinates into faithful fo...

Is your home office an unpleasant place to spend 40 hours a week? If so, use these easy tweaks to make it a happy and productive environment.

If you are thinking of going global, you may be interested in what Singapore has to offer. Having been consistently ranked by The World Bank as the world's easiest place to do business, Singapore has embarked on an ambit...

I had one of my "Bah Humbug!" moments yesterday.  At the cash register at Barnes & Noble in the Blackstone Mall in Millbury, the clerk asked me if I wanted to add to my already enormous tab by buying a book for a foste...

Customer experience executives can a lot from behavioural science. Here's two insights concerning anti-nudges and framing and how they can help drive customer service and experience improvements.

GUEST: As Mel Brooks said, it’s good to be the king. And Sequoia Capital’s Mike Moritz, by most people’s measure in the venture capital world, is the king. So before we jump onto his controversial comments about wo...

If you're looking to start a business these days, simply throwing out bells and whistles in any product isn't enough. People aren't looking for individual items anymore, they want to have the full-service experience, tha...

GUEST: According to a study released last month, the cost of cybercrime rose 19 percent in the past year, and the average company is now spending 82 percent more defending itself than it did in 2009. And yet that’s sti...

European citizens will soon need passports to travel across member states. EU interior ministers have suspended the Schengen passport-free travel zone, paving the way for national governments to bring back border passpor...

Disasters and crises are inevitable in business. How can you protect a small business from the impact of these events?

GUEST: At Lightspeed we've been investing aggressively in open source software (OSS) businesses for the past 10 years. Recently, we've seen a significant increase in entrepreneurs pitching open source startups, and we've...

Visa and Bank of America today announced that they’re giving away 10,000 Google Cardboard virtual reality headsets at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, for fans of the New England Patriots to watch a new v...

GUEST: In recent months, there has been a lot of shake-up in the media landscape - from the Charter-Time Warner merger to the AT&T acquisition of DirecTV. There is no doubt the industry is undergoing a major transformati...

Left to itself, sales is a challenging craft—arguably one of the most challenging, regardless of the industry.  Convincing someone to give us money for our product or service takes a lot more than hard work and luck, ...

Almost 60 percent of U.S. workers won't even ask for a raise. So, how can Millennials even attempt the "ask" successfully? Baby Boomers are in a unique position to help their Millennial offspring navigate the waters arou...

Why do many business leaders want bigger organizations? If the purpose of a company is merely growth, it is similar to cancer. Your company should try to be the best, not the biggest.

When you and your leadership team create an amazing company culture, incredible talent will be drawn to work with you, and they?ll want to stay with your company.

A leading venture capitalist who I?m lucky to count as a mentor and investor shared this sage advice: Figure out where in the world you want to live and then build your career there, not the other way around. Here's why ...

Think culture first. Sell before you buy. Do a real due diligence.

If you ask Alan Feld what Chinese investors should know before investing in Israeli startups, his answer is simple: a trusted, local partner. "Investing is very much a local business," he explains. Feld is the cofounder ...

Not even a failed coup or rampant corruption could stand in the way of democratic elections in the West African nation of Burkina Faso last month. Now comes the tough part: making it all work.

Yahoo Inc's board of directors on Friday is in the third and final day of meetings that could decide the future of one of Silicon Valley's most prominent but troubled companies.