Education and Career

Unsurprisingly, Switzerland is the most expensive country in the world for tourists to visit, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2015 travel and tourism competitiveness report. Here are 10 countries to avoid, if you're travelling on a tight budget. As expected, the majority of the destinations on the list are...

Marilyn Monroe is still celebrated today for her beauty and charismatic presence on screen. Despite frenzied speculation, the beloved actress largely evaded publicity. Below is a collection of Beautiful photos and most insightful quotes of Marilyn Monroe: 1. A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself....

Answering the question of how much a business should plan to spend on their marketing can be tricky. The needs and resources of every business are unique, so no one standard answer, like "every business should spend 14% on marketing" exists. This lack of a standard or rule-of-thumb when it...

Out of the 142 countries, Iceland tops out as the #1 place for women, according to the World Economic Forum's global gender equality index, Iceland shows narrowing the gender gap isn’t rocket-science. As one of the first countries to give women the right to vote in 1915,  Iceland, frequently referred...

You know that as a CEO, you are chief steward of your company’s resources. One of your biggest, if not the biggest, asset on your balance sheet is likely to be your accounts receivable. For most companies, it typically represents about 40% of the total asset base, and in most...

If you’re a successful executive, you’ve asked for help along the way. If you have investors, you’ve asked for help. If you have a mentor, you’ve asked for help. If you’ve achieved any degree of success, you have undoubtedly asked others for help. If we’ve all asked for help to...

We asked more than 125,000 managers, bosses, and high-level executives to suggest the top qualities every great manager needs to succeed? So, how do good managers become great managers? After working through the results, here are some key qualities we think every great manager needs to succeed. So it is...

One need not examine the word culture closely to see its roots. The word cult comes from a Latin word meaning “to till.” In the corporate world, culture is an organization’s means of tilling a specific set of values among stakeholders: employees, shareholders, customers, etc. For some organizations, this culture...

When we think of women in technology our minds often jump to the emblems, such as Marissa Mayer or Sheryl Sandberg. The women in between – those leaders beyond early stage startups but not yet at the large corporation level – don’t have a readily available platform. Like many middle...

Most startups fail within the first five years of establishment. Media outlets and established business owners criticize startups today as another way that millennials are attempting to wiggle out of a desk job. With more and more websites designed to make starting a business easier than ever, a previous Forbes...