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4 Tips to Help Veterans Succeed at Your Company

Veterans can make for highly disciplined and skilled employees. Make sure you set them up for success with these tips.  Read more

4 Decision-Making Mistakes to Avoid

Every day, you must make decisions large and small. Here's what's keeping you from making them more confidently.  Read more

How Much Poor Performers Cost You

Chances are, you're spending too much time on employees who don't deliver. Here are seven tips to pull yourself out of the time suck.  Read more

10 Unexpected Reasons to Give Thanks

Forget the turkey. This Thanksgiving, be thankful for a few things you might not consider blessings--but should.  Read more

2 Simple Keys to Define Your Brand

What does your brand stand for? Probably a lot less than you think. Here's why you need to rethink it.  Read more

Beware the Achievement Trap

Just because you believe you should achieve something doesn't mean you will. Here are four ways to avoid this common trap.  Read more

How to Cultivate Truly Loyal Customers

Every business wants loyal customers--but loyalty comes in many different flavors.  Read more

5 Apps That Make QuickBooks Better

You're already using QuickBooks. Check out five ways to get more mileage out of it.  Read more

4 Problem-Solving Analytics Tools

Buried deep in your data are all kinds of clues you need to strengthen your business. Here's how to uncover them.  Read more

Why You Need to Choose New Heroes

It's great to have role models you admire--unless they're holding you back from reaching your true potential.  Read more

11 Ways to Sleep Better at Night

You're a 24-7 entrepreneur. But you need to get some shut-eye. Here's how to make the sleep you do get a whole lot better.  Read more

Is Your Start-up Built to Survive?

During and in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, a certain kind of start-up thrived. Here's why--and what you should learn from it.  Read more

The Entrepreneur's Creed

Start-up founders follow their own code of laws. Here are nine of their commandments.  Read more

6 TED Talks Every Entrepreneur Should Watch

A handful of sage speakers lay out research and advice business owners everywhere should heed.  Read more

Do What You Love? Screw That

Want to be happy? Don't build a business based on something you love doing.  Read more

How to Bulletproof Your Company Culture

Growth often comes at a cost: Acquisitions and fast hiring decisions can wreak havoc on your company culture. Here's how not to let it happen.  Read more

7 Unusual Things Great Bosses Do

Great bosses do these things. The rest don't--because these simple gestures would never occur to them.  Read more

Ex-Boss's Confession: 'Analytics Saved My Career'

The company had a vision of where it needed to go--but no map to get there. Here's how a little data saved the day.  Read more

How to Build a Company You Can Sell: 4 Rules

A seasoned entrepreneur offers his best tips to get to an exit. A good first step: Give up the idea that you're building the next Facebook.  Read more

Break: The Most Important Part of Breakthrough

Patterns and rules can be good. But sometimes you need to break them to create a breakthrough business.  Read more

WikiHow's Recipe for Success

The so-called 'hybrid' company looks like a nonprofit, makes money like a business, and serves the community like a government.  Read more

Want to Be More Effective? Try a Mental Detox

Follow these four tips to get back on top of your mental game.  Read more

How to Be a Great Radio Guest

You may be a great speaker. But do you know how to shine on the radio?  Read more

4 Lessons From Nate Silver's Election Predictions

Why do big election predictions matter? They offer key lessons about how to be smart with 'big' data.  Read more

9 Tips to Turn an Idea into a Business

Here's a straightforward approach to analyze a product's potential and bring it to market.  Read more

24 Things You Can Do With an Extra Hour

Daylight Savings ended and now you have an extra hour every day. Here are 24 things you can do to get the most from that extra hour.  Read more

Go National? Not This Fast-Growing Chain

Bojangles' restaurants have a huge regional following among customers and franchisees. It could go national--but it doesn't. Here's why.  Read more

How to Achieve Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals

Leadership expert Jim Collins explains what drives some entrepreneurs to relentlessly pursue bold ideas--and succeed where others have failed.  Read more

Start-up DNA? Signs Facebook Hasn't Lost It

The social media company recently stopped testing its own Pinterest-like feature. It was a smart move--and one any company can learn from.  Read more

6 Reasons Layoffs Are Really Dumb

It seems like smart just-in-time staffing: You hire for big projects and then let people go when they wrap up. But here's why it hurts more than it helps.  Read more

Don't Let Your Company Use 'Horses & Bayonets'

How do you measure the success of a military...or a business? Whatever your metric, it's easy to get sidetracked on a given day. Here's how to keep the big p...  Read more

The Doomsday Prediction You Should Heed

Whether it's right or wrong, there are good reasons to pay attention to this grim economic prediction.  Read more

How to Land a Distributor for Your Product

A distributor can really pump up your sales volume--if you know how to land one.  Read more

What the Drive-Through Window Can Teach You

Don't run a fast-food business? It doesn't matter. Any company could stand to improve the efficiency of its operations.  Read more

4 Secrets to Get Inside Your Customers' Heads

"Extreme research" can help you build products customers love. Here's how one company does it.  Read more