Harvey Mackay No one who has sold 10 million books is an unsung hero, but Harvey Mackay goes largely unnoticed today. I always think about Harvey Mackay a month or two before Thanksgiving but never get around to following his advice, which demands...

Greg Satell “Fear is a great motivator.” Art Bell Just like the brain has two incongruous hemispheres that somehow work together so that each of us can walk in a straight line (some of the time), businesses are run by two types of people. Good...

Previous Ribby Awards have gone to CEOs who have sacrificed personal security and comfort to help their employees make it through the recession. This month’s Ribby goes to Untours founder and CEO Hal Taussig, who has happily given away everything he...

Is social media (or any media for that matter) inherently good or bad, value rich or worthless?  If you spend any time following experts and pundits (thanks to social media, everyone’s an expert and pundit), you have to wonder whether any business has...

In my last post, Sales vs Marketing is a Diversity Issue, I wrote that the perpetual disunity between sales and marketing departments has the same underlying dynamics as conflicts between employees of different races, genders, national origins, and...