What Makes These Companies The 5 Best Places to Work?

Every year Fortune magazine publishes a list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.” Why should this matter to you? Almost any business owner will tell you that his or her people are the company’s most important resource. For some leaders, those are just words. But...

Innovation for Idiots

No doubt, you’ve seen those ubiquitous  “Dummies” books. The first title (DOS for Dummies) appeared in 1991, and has been followed by a plethora of publications over the years. Simplifying complex concepts for people was obviously a pretty innovative idea that had...

You Maybe Be the Leader But Who Has Your Back?

You know how they say, “It’s lonely at the top”? Nobody knows that better than the leader of a business. It doesn’t really matter if your title is CEO, President, or simply Owner. If you’re the person ultimately responsible for the big decisions that determine the...

Is This The Year of the Horse, or the Employee?

According to the Chinese calendar, 2014 is supposed to be the year of the horse. Someone apparently forgot to tell the Seattle Seahawks about that. However, they aren’t the only ones who seem to think that perhaps the Chinese got it wrong. In a recent Forbes.com...