I know what you’re thinking: “Encourage employees to quit? That’s ridiculous! Everyone knows how stressful and expensive it is to deal with high turnover!” Stay with me for a minute. Encouraging employee turnover at your company may be the best move you can make to build a hard-working team culture,...

Many leaders who have been given the directive to ‘build a culture of innovation’ immediately think about the Googles and Apples of the world. Images of beanbags and table-tennis tables fill their minds. However, what we know from the research is that this is completely ineffective in creating a culture...

There’s a popular saying that goes as: “You can do anything, but you can’t do everything.” It’s definitely true; especially in the case of managing a business and keeping a marriage strong. Because the amount of effort and focus it takes to start a business and be an entrepreneur is...

With a personal fortune of $32.1 billion, property mogul Wang Jianlin, the chairman of Dalian Wanda Group, held off Alibaba's high-profile Founder Jack Ma to retain the crown of China's richest man, according to Shanghai-based luxury magazine publisher Hurun Report, 2016. Wanda boss Wang Jianlin was followed by Alibaba's Jack...

The College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor has been named as the most environmentally-responsible college in the U.S., according to a ranking released by the Princeton Review’s 2016 Guide to 361 Green Institutions, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY ranked No. 2 on the list. The education...

In 2015, Jan Jones released a book titled: The CEO’s Secret Weapon.  The subtitle revealed exactly what she meant: How Great Leaders and their Assistants Maximize Productivity and Effectiveness.  While she makes a valid argument, let’s take this in a different direction. If you type How to be a good...

It’s safe to say that cyber security is a top concern for CEOs today—a recent survey by PWC found that 87 percent of CEOs feel somewhat-to-extreme concern about cyber security. And it should be. CEOs are being held increasingly accountable for their company’s data breach failures, and in extreme cases like...

It is estimated that 66 percent of health systems will allow patients to schedule their own appointments digitally by 2019, and 64% of patients will make use of the online scheduling. These appointments are worth about $3.2 billion. But healthcare isn’t the only industry that’s taking advantage of online schedulers. Gone...

Most of us are familiar with Sheryl Sandberg’s idea that women need to “lean in”, which is a great metaphor for women in business as it empowers them to take charge of their career and how they choose to lead.  The challenge for many women is that “leaning in” can...