Education and Career

Confidence, organization, and people skills are essential for great leadership, but they mean very little if you don’t know how to assert yourself. Assertiveness is a crucial trait for leaders in both Fortune 500 companies and startups as long as it’s applied correctly. Are you a passive leader? Passivity is...

When was the last time you checked in with your customer care department? American businesses lose $41bn every year to poor customer service. And if you think your company is all good, there’s a reasonable chance you’re mistaken: while 80% of businesses believe that they are offering superior customer service,...

Entrepreneurship is challenging, although when you run a company you end up realizing eventually that some of those challenges are actually pretty rewarding. Experienced business owners must learn to overcome all obstacles, regardless of their level of difficulty. One of your core duties will be working as hard as possible...

Traveling for business can be frustrating at the best times and exhausting at the worst. Whether it’s a lack of availability for rooms, tricky cancellation policies, or just locational and logistical headaches, travelers are usually braced for some sort of dilemma. Thankfully, players in the travel industry understand that, and...

Despite the growth of enterprise resource planning software and other project planning tools, Microsoft Project remains a common project planning tool. It is ubiquitous, widely available and has tight integration with both Microsoft Office and competing project planning tools. Here are four essential tips for beginners with Microsoft Project. Start...

Colleen O'Callaghan, who manages $2.3 billion in assets for roughly 50 ultra high-net-worth families at Morgan Stanley has been ranked at No.1 in the Forbes 2017 America's top women wealth advisors list. Saly Glassman and Rebecca Rothstein, both working in Merrill Lynch, have been ranked 2nd and 3rd respectively. Magazine...

For the second year in a row, Audi topped the list of the best car brands in the US for 2017, followed by Porsche (like Audi, it also is owned by Volkswagen), Lexus, and BMW. Subaru finished fifth, followed by Kia and Mazda. Honda was No. 9, between Tesla and...

In the past, the process of learning was tied to the classroom. Thanks to the rapid expansion of the Internet, we have an opportunity to learn anything we want in just a few clicks. Databases of condensed knowledge became quite popular and larger companies figured out that there should be...

For CEOs, C-Suite executives and other senior level executives, equity compensation is a key part and often the most important part of their compensation package. For many senior executives, equity means stock options or restricted stock. But in many circumstances the better choice is RSUs, restricted stock units. RSUs are...

The greatest entrepreneurs of all time have less in common with each other than one may think. But that’s not what people want to hear - they want to hear that Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, and Henry Ford all score exactly the same on a personality test and possess an...