Education and Career

Princeton takes No. 1 spot on the list of best universities in America, according to the U.S. News' annual Best Colleges rankings for 2017, comparing more than 1,800 U.S. based institutions, of which 1,374 are ranked. The number 1 pick might not surprise you - Princeton has topped the list...

Many are driven to excel in business by ambition, big ideas and a firm eye on success, and without such an outlook progress would rarely be made. Yet the greatest leaders are very often the ones who know how to negotiate the difficult moments, to identify problems within their team...

We know that meetings can be productive, but too many of them fail to achieve their potential. In fact, research indicates that the vast majority of meetings are a waste of time. Collectively, upper management spends half of its total time each week in meetings. This accounts for more than...

Banco Santander's boss Ana Botín is the most powerful woman in business based outside the United States, on 2016 prestigious list of lady bosses by Fortune magazine. State Bank of India (SBI) MD Arundhati Bhattacharya, takes the number 2 position, followed by Isabelle Kocher, Chua Sock Koong, and Chanda Kochhar,...

If you’ve ever been a part of the retail employee engagement conversation, you know that a huge pain point for retailers is poor employee retention. A recent infographic on “How to Engage Your Retail Associates” explains that you need to give your people a reason to care about your brand....

It wasn't so surprising to find that Harvard has topped the 2016 list of the "25 Best Performing Business Schools For Venture Capital Backed Entrepreneurs, 2016 - Top MBA Programs" according to PitchBook, a leading research firm for private equity and venture capital, which ranked business schools based on the...

A new way to hire leaders and save your company tens of thousands of dollars per year. There’s a universal feeling of anxiety when it comes to hiring or promoting new managers. Whether your hand is forced because a manager is leaving or being let go, or simply because a...

With over 7.3 billion unique brains on the planet, knowing how to get the best out of any team can be tricky. While the need to maintain physical wellbeing for better performance is well accepted, brain safety is more often relegated to the unimportant drawer, viewed as the soft underbelly...

Back in 1985, when hairstyles were boofy and TV was serious business, a television camera zoomed in on a veteran Australian journalist as he stood in the middle of the brutally hot North Australian desert. On one side of him stood a team of highly trained SAS soldiers (an elite...

General Motors boss Mary Barra has been named as the most powerful woman in business for 2016, according to the Fortune magazine, a Time, Inc. publication. Among the many reasons, GM boss claimed the No. 1 spot on the list, which included 51 women in all, after she led the...