In many situations, problems arise because we consider ourselves too much. We focus more on what we did or didn’t get as opposed to what we contributed. The philosophy that one gets more by giving, was compellingly…

Congratulations are in order for Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, authors of Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (and their publishers PublicAffairs), for winning this year’s…

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I’ve been busy elsewhere this week, but managed to post two things I’d like to make available to you on this blog, because this is my main blog:

1. My monthly column on entrepreneur.com came out today, summarizing the <a

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Startups may or may not create jobs. Established small businesses almost certainly create fewer than most people think. But Americans trust small business owners the most in terms of their ideas on job creation, according to this…

How can a low-tech, high-touch startup scale to a high-tech one without losing users? I asked several tech startup founders, community managers, and users for any lessons learned on how startups can successfully transition their early adopters, who are used…

DealGooder

Getting your business on daily deal sites can mean new customers and new opportunities, but if you want to take it one step further, check out DealGooder.com. The site highlights one business daily, and not only are consumers offered…

Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders' career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today's organizations. (Carla's an actual executive whose name has been changed.)

Carla was literally bred for…

At RoboBusiness this week, a conference devoted to the business and technology of robots, the revelation for me was not just how far robotic capabilities have come but also the range of problems robots are already helping to…

Luck is something that happens to you and your company. So if it's outside your control, why bother to try to manage it? In our new book, Great by Choice, Jim Collins and I studied the role of luck in…