Building a Business Turns Out Apple Didn’t Start in a Garage After All Steve Wozniak shatters the myth of Apple as a garage company. Not that it matters much.
Building a Business What I Learned in Making My Employees Build a Christmas Tree Out of Business Books I wanted to test whether team-building exercises are really good management and morale tools. Here's what I found.
Building a Business Brace Yourself for a Below-Average Christmas Gallup's spending survey seems to put coal in the stockings of retailers.
Thought Leaders Business Students Don’t Get Love. Nor Do They Need It — Yet. A Gallup survey raised the question of how important emotional support is during the college years.
Entrepreneurs College Is Worth the Price. Just Not This Price. A college president says economic models don't apply to college tuition. That theory wouldn't pass Econ 101.
Building a Business The World Needs More of Richard Branson’s ‘Hubris’ The criticism of Sir Richard Branson's role in the SpaceShipTwo crash is a knock on entrepreneurship itself.
Thought Leaders Tim Cook Is Wrong: You Really Can’t Fire Someone For Being Gay Tim Cook, in acknowledging his homosexuality, perpetuated a politically charged myth about gays in the workplace.
Thought Leaders Tim Cook Is Gay. But As Apple’s CEO, That Isn’t His Biggest Revelation. Cook knows his responsibilities as CEO of Apple. He proved that in his coming out.
Thought Leaders Accidents Happen and Space Is Hard Ignore the criticism over the private sector's role in the Antares rocket failure.
Building a Business When Innovation Means Playing God Innovation is creation, and that has consequences. We need to understand that.
Building a Business Igniting Your Audience and Your Brand Our latest conference in the New York area highlights the challenges of modern branding.
Business News Suck It Up and Wake Up Early Schools are being encouraged to start later to let students sleep in. Whatever happened to the early bird?
Thought Leaders The 3 Ways Roger Goodell Failed to Show Leadership in His Press Conference In trying to mute the criticism of the NFL's response to abuse cases, commissioner Roger Goodell showed surprisingly bad judgment.
Thought Leaders How Business Is Regulating Good Behavior in the NFL The NFL and players needed sponsors to get serious about abuse. Thank capitalism for that.
Thought Leaders How Inspiration From Leo Tolstoy Can Drive Your Business Tolstoy never ran a business and faced a world different from ours. But entrepreneurs can learn a lot from him.
Thought Leaders Stop Playing So Nice With Your Competition The criticism of Uber's disruption of Lyft is misplaced. We should all be so competitive.
Building a Business When Company Culture Becomes Discrimination Culture can be a wonderful selling point to attract new employees and customers. But it might also be a cultural hegemony as corrosive as saying you only want a third of your workforce to be women.
Thought Leaders The One Executive Position Every Startup Now Needs to Fill Today Uber's recent hiring is a wakeup call to those idealistic enough to believe they don't need to fight City Hall.
Thought Leaders How a Stroke of Improvisation and Inspiration Saved Europe in WWI The Taxis of the Marne show what good leadership can do to tip the scales in your favor.
Building a Business Tech Companies Deserve More Credit for Their Diversity The numbers that critics use to paint a damaging picture of Silicon Valley need to be viewed in context.
Building a Business When Will Washington Start Unleashing the Power of Entrepreneurs? The latest GDP figures prove that the policies of the last six years are targeting the wrong culprits.
Building a Business Starbucks Finds a Free-Market Solution to Education Costs An important shift in who actually subsidizes out-of-control tuition inflation seems like a good first step.
Online Presence PayPal President David Marcus Jumps Ship to Run Messaging at Facebook Marcus will run the messaging business for Facebook after leaving the eBay unit after three years.
Thought Leaders Why ‘Ghostbusters’ Should Be Every Entrepreneur’s Favorite Movie The movie is 30 years old, but the business principles underlying it are timeless. Really.
Building a Business Uber Breaks a Record With Its Latest Funding Round With $1.2 billion from Fidelity and others, Uber sets the bar for other private companies in VC funding.
Thought Leaders The 15 Ronald Reagan Quotes Every Business Leader Must Know On the 10th anniversary of the Gipper's death, we present some of his best thoughts on American business.
Thought Leaders Leadership, Accountability and the D-Day Letter Ike Never Sent Failure is always an option. Eisenhower knew that, even on D-Day.
Building a Business We Are Flawed, Erring Humans. Don’t Blame Google. Google is being forced to erase the worst of who we are. We should be embracing that side of us.
Building a Business Small Businesses Extend Hiring at Best Post-Recession Clip There's still a lot of worry about adding new employees, but the pace of hiring is at an eight-year high.
Building a Business Turns Out It Is Illegal to Force Employees to Be Positive We all want positive employees. But employer policies that mandate that attitude now are unlawful.