The UK Government introduced new parental leave legislation in April this year giving parents a choice in how to share child care for their child’s first year. The legislation creates a new, more equal system which allows fathers to have greater involvement in raising their child and gives women the...

Iceland remains the most peaceful country in the world, according to the 2015 Global Peace Index (GPI), recently released by the Institute for Economics and Peace. In search of peace? Maybe it's time to move to Nordic. Denmark (came in second) was narrowly beaten by Iceland, while its other Nordic...

Customer service experience strategies vary from business to business. Regardless of industry, customer service orbits around a singular expectation – businesses should meet and exceed the needs of their customers. This customer-centric philosophy is obvious, but according to a recent study from The Northridge Group of more than 1,000 respondents,...

Unsurprisingly, Marillyn Hewson, the head of defense giant, Lockheed-Martin, was the highest-paid chief executives in America in the Wall Street Journal study. She took the No. 11 spot on that list and the No. 1 spot on the female CEOs list. Hewson compensation was almost $5 million more that of...

The aerospace and defense giant, Lockheed-Martin chief Marillyn A. Hewson was the highest-paid woman in the Wall Street Journal's annual pay rankings, coming in at No. 11 on the overall list with a compensation package valued at $33.7 million, up 34% from a year earlier. Surprise! The Highest Paid CEOs...

Brand intimacy is the essential relationship between a person and a brand that transcends purchase, usage and loyalty. This relationship is becoming increasingly important as technology keeps transforming the way brands thrive resulting in pervasive, information-rich, more socially driven and on–demand experiences. What’s more, how a brand interfaces, influences and...

As with most new technologies, many consumers have treated cloud computing like a mythic being. Its verbiage has been one of ‘shoulds’ and ‘coulds,’ and, although cloud technology’s value is quickly growing, many consumers remain skeptical about its security features, usability and price. They wonder how it will work, when...

In the startup world, non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) seem to come up far too often. Whether you are an angel investor or a startup founder, you may had to sign an NDA or had someone else sign one at some point in your career. A lot has also been said about...

a.k.a. Do You Wish You Were a Mind Reader? When you run a company, the bottom line is forefront in everything you do, and part of that is to know and understand your customers and clients. What they like and what they don’t like, why they do or don’t do...