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Are You Sabotaging Your Own Career?

Five simple actions can be dangerous and detrimental to your success. Are you guilty as charged?READ»

Mentors Are Useless--But They Don't Have To Be

I am a lousy mentee. It’s a funny admission to make as someone who makes her living as professional mentor. Sure, I train my clients on how best to leverage my expertise. Of course, that doesn’t mean that I follow my own advice very well.READ»

5 Ways To Put The "Pro" In Profile Pics

Your profile photo is an important part of your online image, so if you still have an egg as your Twitter avatar or a blue-and-white silhouette for your Facebook page, it's time to step things up. (Hint: This photo is a "don't.")READ»

Relationship Guru Charles Orlando Helps E-Book Self-Publishers Help Themselves

Too many do-it-yourselfers don't actually do anything--then expect to become the next Amanda Hocking. The author of "The Problem With Women ... Is Men" breaks down the economics of self-publishing and his own winning strategies. READ»

3 Ways To Deal With A No-Win Situation

If you're a Star Trek aficionado, then not only have you heard of the "Kobayashi Maru Scenario" but you can recount it easily to others--it's a no-win situation cadets encounter at the Starfleet Academy. How we deal with these situations in real life is crucial. READ»

The Fortunes Of Solitude: Susan Cain On Introverts, The "New Groupthink," And The Problems With Brainstorming

A self-avowed introvert herself, Susan Cain is the author of the recently published book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking. Cain says this quality is vastly misunderstood and undervalued. Bill Gates, Craig Newmark, and Mark Zuckerberg would agree: They’re introverts, too. READ»

We Know What You Want And When You Will Buy It

A neuroscience technology breakthrough at the University of California, Berkeley, has major implications for the future of branding and marketing.READ»

Buyer Beware: 3 B2B Public Relations Don'ts

PR is often, to its misfortune, confused with advertising. Yet, the two are as different as say the proverbial country mouse is from its city relative. Public relations, at least in the B2B world, is all about credibility, education, thought leadership. And, yes, it’s about self-promotion, but done in a way that bolsters credibility.READ»

The Wikipedia Way Of Motivating Your Employees

The next time you visit Wikipedia, take a moment to soak in the enormity of the project--and reflect on the fact that it was created by unpaid volunteers motivated by nothing other than their own passion and sense of purpose. Here's how you can inspire the same zeal in your team. READ»

How Lego's Great Adventure In Geek-Sourcing Snapped Into Place And Boosted The Brand

A second product from Lego's crowdsourced Cuusoo project--the Japanese asteroid reconnaissance spacecraft Hayabusa--is scheduled for release on March 2. The venerable toy company may never be the same.READ»

Leadership Lessons From The GOP Primary Race

Business owners have more to gain from the GOP primary process than entertainment--in fact, there are a number of valuable leadership lessons that have been illustrated in recent weeks.READ»

The 5-Video Work Week: How To Build Your Brand On YouTube

After uploading dozens of "Will It Blend" videos on YouTube, a little company called Blendtec saw retail sales of its high-end blenders increase by over 700 percent. Here's how to work similar YouTube magic for your brand. READ»

Facebook's Timeline Movie Maker, Starring Your Jacked Ego

The visualization tool brings home the point that your Timeline is supposed to be a survey of your young life so far. And it makes you want to upload more and better pictures.READ»

2 Steps To Getting Lean Enough To Succeed

There are things that we carry around in our organizations and in our mentality that make things more cumbersome than they need to be. Treat your leadership like you would treat a manufacturing floor and get leaner now. Here’s are the two fastest ways to achieve this.READ»

Where To Find Inspiration When The World Tells You To Give Up

We've all been there: You were launching a new product, leading a once-exciting project, or growing your business. Things started out fun and you made some initial progress. Then you hit a dip. Your progress slows, your passion evaporates, and everywhere you look the signs seem to be saying “give up.” How do you generate the energy to push on? READ»

Getting Across The Great Gender Divide In Business Networking

It is important for anyone working in the business world to understand the similarities and differences between the networking styles of men and women. At the end of the day, we all want the same outcome; we just have different ways of getting there.READ»

Fast Talk: How This Tattoo Artist Became A Tech Entrepreneur

Meet Fred Giovannitti, whose ability to tease designs out of people's brains proves useful in two very different pursuits: tattoo artistry and environmental engineering.READ»

Record For Most Records Reported In A Single Story Goes To This Story, On RecordSetter

How does a tiny upstart in the feats industry disrupt Big Record? With face rakes, a hot pink monkey suit, unicycles, hula hoops, and a Rola Bola, of course! Go inside RecordSetter.com's latest smash. READ»

Brand This Way: 3 Road-Tested Marketing Moves Ripped From Lady Gaga

There is much the corporate world can learn from this 25-year-old diva, whose talent for building a brand might even surpass her formidable performing chops. READ»