CEO Agenda

No surprise that with a fortune of $2.4 billion, Electronic health-record juggernaut Epic Systems chief Judy Faulkner by far topped the 2014 list of wealthiest Woman CEOs, according to a report released by BnbData Consultancy Services, an IT data warehousing and business intelligence consulting company. The second wealthiest female CEO...

Content is so important to your marketing and social selling programs on LinkedIn that we have fired clients because they failed to provide us with unique, thought leadership content on a consistent basis. Done right, when you mix LinkedIn with content marketing, you’re able to communicate your value, position yourself...

Packed with Silicon Valley luminarie, Tesla boss Elon Musk was named No. 1 on Vanity Fair’s annual “New Establishment” ranking of the top 50 Disrupters, leaping ahead of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at number two. The new chief disrupter: Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of...

Thriller writer James Patterson topped the list of the world's top-earning authors 2014, earning a staggering $90 million in the last 12 months and push his career total to $700 million over the last decade, making him the richest penman on Earth. Patterson, meanwhile, regains his place at the top...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, tops the list as the wealthiest women in the United States congress with a minimum net worth of nearly $44 million. Just 9 woman cracked the "Top 50 Richest Members of Congress" list , and all are Democrats — save for lone Republican Rep. Diane Black of...

Washington, D.C. ranks No. 1 among the top 50 state for women to work, when it comes to employment opportunities and salary, and West Virginia was last, in a new report compiled by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Data from the report cited, Women in the District have a...

One of your most important leadership functions is in selecting, hiring, and integrating top level talent to help you grow your company. The true cost of a bad hire can be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Here are the 5 most expensive hiring mistakes and how you can...

One of the most important lessons with respect to managing cash flow is this: The faster you collect from your customers, the easier it will be to manage your cash flow. Most businesses carelessly fall into cash crunches because they let their receivables slip longer and longer before being paid....

Think of how much time and money your company spends on meetings. Yet so few executives know what it takes to make meetings crisp and productive. Here are 7 tips to make your meetings more effective: 1. Plan your meeting in advance – in writing A. What is the purpose...

Surprisingly, Tampa came in at number one among the top destinations in the U.S. for people to retire, and Providence, Rhode Island was No. 150 --- worst places to retire. Which cities are the best for retirement—and which ones are the worst? Grand Prairie, Texas ranked second, Orlando came in...