Education and Career

Oddly enough, a recent study by Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) argues that “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls may be the most recognizable song --- the catchiest song ever. It's official! To collect data, researchers developed an interactive online game, called "Hooked On Music" that asked 12,000 participants...

From the Queen to Cara Delevingne; Victoria Beckham to Amal Alamuddin to Andrea Wong, alongside 95 other powerful females from all walks of life have made it to GQ/Editorial Intelligence’s inaugural list of the 100 most connected women in Britain, in association with Jaguar. Interestingly, the list brings together Women...

One of the most important lessons with respect to managing cash flow is this: The faster you collect from your customers, the easier it will be to manage your cash flow. Most businesses carelessly fall into cash crunches because they let their receivables slip longer and longer before being paid....

Think of how much time and money your company spends on meetings. Yet so few executives know what it takes to make meetings crisp and productive. Here are 7 tips to make your meetings more effective: 1. Plan your meeting in advance – in writing A. What is the purpose...

What do Sequim, Washington, Denver, Colorado, A nudist resort in Edinburg, Texas, and Napa Valley, have in common? According to a study done by Huffington Post staff, surveyed people and analyzed the results. In fact, Huff/Post50 asked Facebook users, what city in America do YOU believe to be the best...

The star of Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. once again leads Forbes Magazine's list of the top-earning actors in Hollywood from June 2013 to June 2014. Well, It's good to be Iron Man! Coming in 2nd on the list of 10 highest-paid actors in Hollywood is "The Fast & the...

A recently published report by the Euromonitor indicates that the world’s biggest beer market in terms of volume sales, china, will overtake the United States in terms of value sale by 2017. China, a nominally socialist country, is poised to become the world’s biggest economy by GDP within the next...

It’s one thing to create a grand plan to grow your company, it is a whole other thing to get your team consistently executing. The most essential “in the trenches” key to execution is to raise the accountability bar inside your company so that each team member feels like what...

In the course of giving keynotes to large entrepreneurial conferences I often get asked, “David, what’s it really like to sell your company? What do you wish you would have known before you sold that no one told you?” I still remember the sale of my first company roughly 10...

Whether it’s a formal business partnership, a joint venture, or a significant strategic relationship, partnerships can be an incredible source of business leverage. Like all forms of leverage, a partnership’s power can magnify good or bad. Over the years I’ve moved into and out of literally dozens of joint ventures...