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Research organizations Gartner and Forrester predict 2014 will be the year corporations that have been holding back on technology spending break out their checkbooks for information technology (IT) purchases. Before they do, however, they should make sure their IT strategy is aligned with their organization’s current and long-term business strategies...

World’s greatest corporate leaders, inventors, businesspeople and reformers say dumb stuff all the time. Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg once said of his customers, "They trust me -- dumb f***s." Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was famously quoted as saying "Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards."  Acknowledge...

In today's talent-focused world of business, it is impossible for companies to succeed without executives who know how to attract, retain, manage, and develop the best. Let's face it, The best talent wants to work with the best talent. Get rid of the obvious time wasters - Capable executives say,...

Like Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn once famously said, "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late."   We are in a fast-moving world in which perfect products delivered past deadline can be deadly. A solution has to be "a good-enough product"...

When you look around the fashion industry, you will be struck by how many amazing and inspiring fashion designers are leading the charge to embrace the continuous rise of social media. Ultimately, I think that whatever social platforms you use, whether it's LinkedIn or Google+, Facebook or Twitter, Pinterest or...

Since we published the list of top charity CEOs, advertising executives,  influential chief executive officers (CEOs,) venture capitalists, chief marketing officers (CMOs,) and chief information officers (CIOs) the role of the Chief Security Officer (CSO) in developing and implementing security processes that minimize risk in an increasingly unpredictable digital environment has...

Many Chief Executive Officers (CEOs,) CIOs, Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs)  and Senior Managers find the "IKEA Effect" confusing but actually it is essentially a problem solver. Although it was joke published in The Economist, seems spot on in explaining the success factor of IKEA: the concept of self-assembly. A study...

Twitter isn’t advertising or marketing platform, it’s a conversation. The best Ad Execs on Twitter don't try to sell to their customers, they try to engage and re-engage them in a personal way. Here is a list of Advertising Executives that have mastered Twitter. How Do They Describe Themselves? "Digital...

I’ll admit that, being an entrepreneur is hard work. Being a successful entrepreneur, even harder. Lots of "want-rapreuners" dream of running your own business and being your own boss.  If you think meeting a boss's expectations or deadlines is tough, try meeting your own.  So What separates the “also rans” ...

What do you think is the primary objective of our lives and careers? A study by the Free University of Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano in Italy found that that happy people outperformed their stressed counterparts and were more-efficient employees. How would you describe the relationship between success and happiness?...