The hierarchy of communication in descending order of effectiveness: talking in person, yelling live in-person, talking on the phone, yelling on the phone, videoconferencing (while talking or yelling, take your pick). Video conferencing is among those things that all of us generally endorse but is in fact new enough that many of us haven’t fully [...]

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.” But, to become great leader isn’t easy. Successfully maneuvering a team throughout good and bad of starting a new business can be among the greatest challenges a small-business owner faces. [...]

U.S. schools may serve up a lot of lessons to the 49 million students who roam their halls, but a majority don’t offer entrepreneur minded kids much guidance in pursuing their passions. Matt Smith, a freshman at Georgia Tech already launched two startups to his credit, GoRankem.com and, now in beta, Insightpool.com. Smith was 13 [...]

Much is considered in regards to the advantages and benefits of social media for businesses, but what about the drawbacks? Though we’ve long heard about the productivity drain among employees that use social media at work, the latest downside starting to get some attention: ethical violations. Active social networkers throughout office — those that spend [...]

By Hitendra Wadhwa |  @hitendraw   | Feb 12, 2012 It wasn’t Abraham Lincoln’s strengths but the self-discipline with which he used those strengths for the right purpose. There is much we can learn by studying Abraham Lincoln’s journey from being just another politician to becoming America’s greatest president.  (Wikipedia provides a compilation of “Historical rankings of Presidents of the [...]