I know an experienced elementary school teacher whose students are low income and many are the children of recent immigrant families. They represent what is probably the fastest growing segment of our country. However, as you can probably imagine, her students generally lag behind national averages on the various educational benchmarks. She was telling me […]
Get some lessons in productivity from Millennials, learn about efficient distribution from NGOs, and take some entrepreneurial tips from the game of poker. Those are just a few of the insights you’ll get from this week’s crop of curated content. Leadership, management, and productivity In this installment of her Women in Business Q&A, Laura Emily […]
Editor’s Note: This essay originally ran in June 2014. We reprint it here today in recognition of Take Your Manners to Work Day. The advice is just as sound and important today as it was in 2014 because good manners never go out of style! People often make fun of me because I’m a stickler […]
As important to the world economy as the United States is, most consumers don’t live within our borders, and their buying power is increasing all the time. However, less than 1 percent of U.S. companies export and of those who do, 58 percent export to just one country. Those figures come from UPS, a company […]
Watch a crime drama on television and you’ll see that the culprits never want to leave their fingerprints behind. For a small business owner, it’s exactly the opposite! You want to leave your “digital fingerprint” so Google and other search engines can find it on as many websites as possible – especially the higher quality […]