Having your startup acquired can be a fortunate and exciting part of any entrepreneur’s life.  If you’re the CEO, there are some things you need to be aware of when it comes to PR and communications. 1. Be Transparent With The Company Acquiring Your Startup: Once the deal is agreed...

Spurred on by the enormous savings found in virtualizing every physical server on the planet, it was only natural that your garden variety CIO postulated his next epiphany: virtualizing desktops would have the same reward. Gartner Research and all the other major analysts agreed, even if no one noticed there...

Last February, multi-billion company Microsoft appointed its new CEO to replace Steve Ballmer, who had been with the company for 14 years. Although he’s worked for the company for more than 22 years, the newly appointed Satya Nadella wasn’t exactly a household name. From being the Executive Vice President of...

Simply put, happy employees perform better. Studies have shown that increased employee well-being results in increased performance and productivity for employees’ companies or organizations, along with positive benefits for the individual employees. It’s a win-win, if the company knows how to unleash this powerful competitive advantage. Competitive advantage can be...

A few years ago one of my companies signed on a big client that I was really excited about. Even though I was very confident in the team I assigned to this business, I still insisted on being very hands-on in their management. I am always so committed to excellence...

The days of exclusively recruiting and rearing internal talent are over; just six percent of respondents said their organizations have no senior-level executives from outside of their own organizations. The average senior executive team is made up of internal candidates (45 percent), external candidates (38 percent) and executives from another...

When asked about their organization’s preparedness to replace key leaders, the survey uncovered a surprising dichotomy. Almost six in 10 respondents said their company had a succession plan in place, but 80 percent said their company would need at least a year to replace them if they were to leave....

Last year saw a big rise of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and cloud-based tech companies, and 45 of them went public on Wall Street – including well-known startups like Marketo, RetailMeNot and Zulily – the third highest number of IPOs in one year, since the dot-com era. Even more surprising is that...

Project management is a highly demanding job where one has to take care of various tasks, activities, processes, personnel, budgeting, time, problems, issues and so many other things related to projects. All these things come with their share of technicalities and complexities. The huge number of tasks, activities and other...

Under the clock face of Old St. Mary's Cathedral near where I live in San Francisco is an admonishment from Ecclesiastes, "Son, Observe the Time and Fly from Evil," aimed at the men who frequented the surrounding brothels in the 1850s. In our modern, meeting-filled society, most people consider business...