Whether you’re a newly promoted manager or a longtime boss, it’s important to come across as strong and competent in front of your employees. There really aren’t many quick fixes when it comes to actually being a good boss. At a basic level, you simply need to treat people with …

This is a personal story. Approximately 11 months ago, in November of 2015, my blogging career was taking-off. I had begun blogging in May of 2015, and by November I had around 10,000 email subscribers. I had recently written an article that was getting lots of traffic. Out of the …

An artist’s conception of what Mars looks like today, juxtaposed with what Mars may have looked like earlier in its history, when the planet had a thicker atmosphere. An artist’s impression of what Mars might have looked like long ago when it had liquid water and a thick atmosphere. Could …

Becoming a billionaire seems like an impossible pipe dream, but as of this year, Forbes reported a population of 1,810 billionaires globally. The journey to billionaire status is a financial Mt. Everest, to be sure, but not impossible. Here are seven insider success secrets billionaires like Steve Jobs and Mark …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a 2.9 percent rate in the July-September quarter, the strongest pace in two years, as the battered export sector rebounded and businesses finally began restocking their shelves at a faster clip. The third-quarter gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic health, …

Donald Trump was of course “joking” when he said yesterday in Toledo, Ohio, that “we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump, right? What are we even having it for?” In the clip below, you can see what we’ve come to recognize as a classic Trump-rally …

Inside India’s lucrative human hair industry At a small temple in Chennai, India, dozens of Hindu women sit on wooden chairs, waiting for their hair to be shaved. It’s an act of complete devotion to their gods, and the first step in an extraordinary journey that sees their long, dark …

In 1904 Frederic Myers labeled the transition from sleep to wakefulness the hypnopompic state. This dreamlike mental state is the short period that occurs between deep sleep and alertness. In this space of time the mind is fluid and “open,” creating the ideal environment for the free flow of ideas …

Having spent the past five years of my professional life studying nearly every nuance of LinkedIn from a sales perspective, I’ve noticed the same chronic issue surfacing time and again. It’s a mistake that countless professionals on LinkedIn continue to make – especially Sales and Business Development Executives, along with …

In a series of conversations leading up to the U.S. presidential election, Christopher Graves, a recent Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio resident honoree for behavioral science, global chair of Ogilvy Public Relations, and chair of the PR Council, and Steve Simpson, chief creative officer of Ogilvy & Mather North America, dissect and debate …