Tips for your Twitter profile

  • August 16, 2015

For professional growth, Twitter is a game-changer. Creating an effective profile is one of the best things you’ll do. Here are 10 tips.

What are the most hated office tasks?

  • August 12, 2015

If you work in your company’s front office, chances are your least favorite administrative task is preparing and sending office mail. A national survey of 1,000...

11 tricky words easily misspelled

  • July 28, 2015

When your emails, presentations, re­­ports and the like are filled with misspelled words, you undermine your credibility and intelligence. With some extra...

The 3 words that guide Prudential’s CEO

  • July 23, 2015

As CEO of Prudential Group Insurance, Lori Fouche is one of the most powerful women in business. The 47-year-old credits her success in part to her ability to describe...

The danger of a 24-hour workday

  • July 13, 2015

Check out these startling statistics from ThinkingPhones’ report “The Constantly-Connected Employee: Does the Workday Ever Really End?”

He made history with a two-liter bottle

  • June 15, 2015

In 1970, John Sculley was a newly hired marketing executive at Pepsi. His first assignment: to develop a distinctive glass bottle to compete against Coke’s...

Bill Gates’ obstinacy built Microsoft

  • June 12, 2015

Today, many people see Bill Gates as a globetrotting humanitarian. But in the 1980s, he was a headstrong entrepreneur. An incident involving company co-founder Paul...

Flipping burgers sets example for team

  • June 08, 2015

There’s no single method to motivate entry-level employees. You need a range of communication tools to ignite their on-the-job passion. Consider the example set by...

6 traits of true professionals

  • June 04, 2015

What makes someone a professional? Is it an advanced degree and typically white-collar job? No, says management and leadership expert Dan McCarthy....