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Recyclebank Crowdsources Its Business Plan To An Elite Group Of Social Entrepreneurs

At an annual gathering of budding socially conscious businesspeople the money-for-good-deeds company held a competition to find the best path toward massive growth.READ»

ROBOTS   |  Comment

Nonsense At Work

Expect robots if profit is your purpose:With every job loss, business fails to do its civic duty.  After all, the real business of business is to keep people busy and off the streets.For centuries, businesses have been quite good ...READ»

The Real Challenge In Our Financial System Today: Who is the End and Who is the Means?

When I was involved in the venture capital world helping to fund a number of technology startups, one thing that struck me as significant but never voiced by anyone was the disconnect of objectives between the two parties in the ...READ»

Accidental Millionaire – the Next Chapter

It was a room filled with about 300 networking engineers.  True geeks, that’s for sure.  I was there in the room to deliver a training to these high-level engineers about a subject they all loved – TCP/IP. As the ...READ»

Consciousness in Leadership: The New Edge for 21st Century Business

I returned recently from the C3 Summit in Austin TX - that’s the Catalyzing Conscious Capitalism Summit.  In attendance were some well known CEOs such as John Mackey CEO of Whole Foods, George Zimmer of Men’s Warehouse, and ...READ»

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Nonsense At Work

Weave with purposeHave you had the opportunity of watching a drunk struggle his way home?Well, I recently watched something similar - a guy with a metal detector combing an early morning beach.  I was standing on a balcony which gave ...READ»

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Becoming a Doctor? That's So Dial-Up!

In this week's column, humorist and career expert Tom Stern writes about finding your calling. Inspired by a recent survey of medical students who voted against going into primary care or internal medicine because there was too much paperwork involved, Stern takes a hard look at how greed and laziness may get in the way of finding your real dream.READ»

Can Time Management Lead To Increased Business Profitability?

Learning to effectively manage one's time during one's hours of business is both a science and an art. But too much precious daily business time may easily be lost through implementing time management systems to be truly productive. ...READ»

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What is your message to the world?

Imagine this. You step on to the elevator. The doors are closing. All of a sudden, the leading pioneer in your field or the CEO of a Fortune 100 company steps on the elevator and pushes the button to the top floor. The ...READ»