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After months of patience, hard-work, preparation, and persistence, you've been offered the "Chief product officer" position. Congratulations! In today's economic climate, it can be tempting to accept the offer, but should you take it? So how do you decide? 1. Are you passionate about the product - To be a...

In business, as in sports, as in life, we are constantly faced with change. Change in the economic and financial environment, a change in momentum, a change in personnel. To paraphrase an old cliché, change is as certain as death and taxes. All of us deal with change differently, yet...

Ironically, beneath all the debauchery there are a number of lessons investors should take from Martin Scorsese film, The Wolf of Wall Street? The first is that movie was an incredibly funny, entertaining, tons of sex,  drugs, cars, yachts, money -  really enjoyable!!! The most valuable lesson: How people who lack...

One lesson I learned while working in Washington was that in spite of how much politicians talk about the importance of developing small businesses, there is a big gap between rhetoric and reality. Small businesses (defined as businesses with fewer than 500 employees) were hurt more than anyone else by...

As a business owner or manager, there will come a time when you have to decide: Hire someone or outsource? Outsourcing no longer has the same stigma attached to it as it used to. In fact, in an era where technology niches are becoming more demanding in higher in numbers,...

A new survey by the Pew Research has revealed that at least 44 percent of employed moms say part-time work would be their ideal situation. A majority of Working Mothers, report they would rather not work full-time. This raises the question: Why? Moms with full-time jobs opting out of their...

Particularly in today's competitive job market where employers are sifting through hundreds of cover letters and resumes. Therefore, your cover letter has to be excellent to make a good impression for guaranteed job-hunting success. What tips do you have for writing a job-winning cover letter? A a “wow”-worthy cover letter...

Well I'm just as guilty as the next person, yet at the same time, below are my top most annoying, overused, and pretentious jargon phrases we hear at work settings today. Do you agree? Please let me know which ones you would add to this list! Call it what you...

Bitcoin is almost certainly the most controversial currency in the world right now. You may have heard about Silk Road, the anonymous marketplace through which myriad illegal goods were sold and which was shut down by the FBI, about the recent headaches at the Mt. Gox exchange, or about concerns...

For all its financial complexities and projections, mergers and acquisitions can be reduced to the familiar, and at times peculiar, traits of individual buyers. It’s an art more than science; how else could a seasoned business titan like Rupert Murdoch fail so miserably with MySpace—he divested it at 6% of...