The paradox of happiness is that chasing it may actually make us less happy, a Stanford researcher says.
The trope that the likelihood of an accurate group decision increases with the abundance of brains involved might not hold up when a collective faces a variety of factors -- as often happens in life and nature.
The urgent desire for a successful business -- and the fear of losing business -- drives many a good person to do sleazy things.
Let’s say you have an agenda, and every time one of you wandered off the agenda, you forced yourself to get back on it. Would the conversation be better or worse, with a set outcome?
Negotiation, like networking, is one of life’s necessities that you either love or hate. But if it's the latter, it doesn't have to be that way.
Some lessons that apply equally to getting buff and to building your business
For decades, it has been observed that similar people experience divergent success trajectories, with some repeatedly succeeding and others repeatedly failing.
Study by USC Marshall School of Business and USC faculty illuminates how facial expressions affect cooperation While Disney’s Frozen Academy...
What is a mind map? Put simply, it's a type of diagram, used to help you outline information in a visual format. But really, a mindmap can be anything you need it to be.
Here are the basics every LLC owner should know about operating agreements.
As an increasing number of freelancers depend on the virtual workplace, how can they make themselves more attractive to potential employers?
A reader recently asked, “How can an achievement-motivated workaholic learn to back off, relax, de-stress, and feel good about doing it? I am too driven!”
If you have ever wanted to know how to turn a content site into a virtual gold mine, you'd be smart to ask an expert how he or she managed it.
Educators have tried to boost learning by focusing on differences in learning styles. Management consultants tout the impact that different...
A researcher has found that the specific colors used in a company’s logo have a significant impact on how that logo, and the brand as a whole, is viewed by consumers.
Starting a business is a lot of work. Anyone who tells you it's not is either lying or has never actually started one themselves.
How much of your day is spent doing administrative tasks, and not creating or doing other important work?
A common mistake people make is that they’ll spend 500 hours creating a product and then 20 hours promoting it. Then they wonder why no one is buying.
It is a beautiful thing to create, to produce, to go out there in the world and make a contribution. But it is just as important that we teach others to create and produce, that we encourage them...
Following your passion can be a tough thing... but figuring out what that passion is can be even more elusive.
Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail! The tragedy lies in the overwhelmingly large majority of people who fail, as compared to the few who succeed.
Few people know the secret of Ford's success, and those who do know are too modest to speak of it, because of its simplicity.
What makes someone a great leader? Here are 11 important factors of leadership that stay the same from decade to decade, century to century.
Unconscious motivation plays a substantial role in how we respond to challenges. Find out how much.
In this video with Bryan Elliott for "Behind the Brand," best-selling entrepreneur, marketer and author Seth Godin shares his views on taking risks, challenging the status quo, and starting a business.
Here are 5 things that teens can do now to get ready for the right career - whatever that may be.
If you choose to file your own trademark without the assistance of an attorney, you don't necessarily need to hire someone else to do it for you. Skip the fees and go right to the source.
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