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Customer-centric solutions demand empathy. But, how we employ this principle within design thinking is as critical—if not more—as what we do in the process.

What you wear can influence your chances of business success

GUEST: "Look, I love technology. Nobody loves it more than me. But the law's the law and my job is to enforce the law. There's nothing I can do." Anyone who runs a startup in a regulated industry has heard some version o...

Nowhere in the formal education system ? from kindergarten through college ? are people skills taught. Yet no matter what technological trends take over, people and how you work with them will always matter most.

That big black hole between creating a strategy for success and then actually making it work traps dozens of companies every year. Here?s a new book that offers a roadmap for finding the successful route from strategy to...

Taiwan: How Long Will Fear Of Failure Outweigh The Opportunity to Startup Up? For A Growing Number, Fear Of Missing Out Is Greater Concern

GUEST: "Start as you mean to go on." It's an adage long applied to life and work's most critical habits. Whether sleep-training an infant, getting into shape, or keeping up with the breakneck pace of a tech startup, the ...

GUEST: Last month, Cleveland startup Phenom got some great news. It was accepted into prestigious Silicon Valley accelerator 500 startups. The catch? The founders had to leave Northeast Ohio and move to San Francisco in ...

Kate Edwards likes to do cosplay (costume play) as characters such as Thor, a valkyrie, Indiana Jones, and Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones. That may give her the fortitude to handle her next big task as executive dir...

GUEST: A report shown at the 2016 World Economic Forum in January says millions of jobs will be lost to robots in the next few years. When thinking about who is most vulnerable, factory workers, drivers, and pilots come ...

A new paper by the National Foundation for American Policy, a non-profit, non-partisan research organization says immigrants play a key role in creating new, fast-growing companies, including starting more than half the ...

When Angela Marie Cody-Rouget served in the U.S. Air Force as a missile combat crew commander, she was entrusted with the keys to the country’s nuclear arms. If the leader of the free world could trust her with nukes, ...

Disclosure: I own shares of MRO Saudi Arabia faces a stark choice: either let markets crush American frackers or watch American frackers crush markets. After testing the upper twenties for a couple times, oil prices have...

Here's a look at what employers need to report re Obamacare

GUEST: Over the course of the past two years, as an investor at dunnhumby Ventures, I have spoken with dozens of startups, from Boston to Beijing, all innovating in the indoor location space. Given our fund’s focus on ...

Lovepop sets a whole new standard for when you care enough to send the very best, giving Hallmark -- the world's biggest card maker --  a run for its money. The millennial company's handcrafted, laser-cut, pop-up greeti...

Aeropostale has been floundering. Sales have been down quarter after quarter. For the most recent quarter, comparable sales were down 6.7% compared to this time last year. Net sales were down 16.1%. Aeropostale had a bad...

Disney’s game business has been somewhat static. In 2011, Disney was ranked at No. 15 on the list of the top public video game companies when it came to revenues, according to market researcher Newzoo. And in 2015, Dis...

Tokyo-based internet company Cocon, previously known as Panda Graphics, announced this week the acquisition of Ierae Security, a Japanese internet security diagnosis startup. Although the company has not yet disclosed th...

Happy Nowruz! As we ring in this New Year, I want to take a moment to congratulate the Iranian entrepreneurs, startups and organizations that are creating values. There are hundreds of thousands of Iranian entrepreneurs ...

The pilot of a Lufthansa passenger jumbo jet reported a drone aircraft nearly collided with the airliner on Friday on its landing approach to Los Angeles International Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administ...

Philz Coffee grew out of a corner market in San Francisco's Mission District to become the tech community's favorite java. Now it wants to challenge Starbucks.