Education and Career

If you put time and effort into hiring the right employees, and if you trust those employees to do a good job within your business, you might not feel the need to track their actions or productivity. And under the right conditions, a hands-off approach can be beneficial to both...

When you’re in the early stages of growing your business, you have a lot on your plate. It’s important to be able to fund expansion, and oftentimes, CEOs and business owners make crucial mistakes in this delicate phase. Avoid making these common mistakes in the first year of your business....

The wealthy are getting wealthier at a higher rate than ever before. A report by the consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Swiss investment bank UBS finds that the total number of billionaires grew 9 percent to 2,158 in 2017. At the same time, billionaire wealth grew by 19 percent to...

Unbelievable, but 2018 is already at its' end. People are getting ready for Christmas and New years eve. Everyone is planning their winter holidays. Some people like spending cold winter at sunnier places. They are tired of snowy, rainy and humid days. These people are sun lovers and prefer spending...

Moving freight in the US is a difficult enough job without the economic uncertainty currently facing the country. With continued anxiety surrounding NAFTA, the freight truckingand transportation industriescould be looking at significant changes over the next two years. Importing and exporting are the lifeblood of the freight business, and the...

Savvy real estate agents must keep pace with all the changes happening today, from technology and social networking to the latest techniques, adapting marketing strategies for 2018 and beyond. For example, did you know that real estate is projected to make up 22% of all drone use within the next...

When you negotiate your executive compensation package, you should seek to accomplish several important and distinct goals: Secure your own basic financial needs, Secure a highly valuable equity stake for yourself in the company, Negotiate the key terms for equity or phantom stock, Create incentives that align with the company for...

A sales territory refers to a group of customers for which an individual salesperson or team has primary responsibility for selling to and managing. Although it’s common for sales managers to create teams by geographic boundaries, they may also use other factors such as sales potential or whether the group...

You might think that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies have got it all figured out. After all, they are in charge of some of the biggest companies in the world. But I’ll let you in on a little secret, even they sometimes struggle when it comes to the concepts of...

The demands of leadership continue to increase in pace and complexity. Leaders have to care about more things than ever before. If leaders delegated more they could cultivate greater trust, and increase both engagement and productivity. What can HR managers do to encourage leaders to delegate more? Under the pressure...