LIFE'S CALLING
Losing His Leg Led To An Innovative Business Idea

Lena L. West, 06/08/12

CEO & Chief Social Media Strategist, Influence Expansion

Here are five ideas -- including some for you right-brainers out there -- to liven things up and renew your commitment to building your thought leadership online.

Nick Bassill, 06/08/12

Author, inventor, entrepreneur

Many graduates, burdened by debt, are questioning what they should do next. Some are now thinking about creating their own business. So, the challenge is, how does anyone with an idea and a dream get the training and funding needed?

Judith Samuelson, 06/07/12

Executive Director, Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program

If you are still moving up the ladder of success -- and aspire to be one of those change agents inside business, then listening is more important than talking.

Sandy Abrams, 06/08/12

Founder & CEO, Moisture Jamzz, Inc./Author Your Idea, Inc.

After being laid off twice within six months, there was only one thing for Judy Goss to do: start her own business.

Women 2.0, 06/08/12

Enabling female tech entrepreneurs.

While volunteering with Iridescent's Technovation Challenge, I would often come home from mentoring the group of teenage girls with a smile on my face and a fist pump in the air. "Finally!"

Karin Kamp, 06/07/12

Director of Digital Media, The Story Exchange

The salvation for small businesses appears to be the community banks that represent just 10% of all U.S. banks. These bankers live in the community. These are the old-fashioned relationship bankers that want to know about the character of the person they lend to.

Bernie Bulkin, 06/08/12

Former Chief Scientist of BP; Chair, the UK Office of Renewable Energy

The boss who can take questions and answer them in a manner that conveys openness and honesty, with occasional use of humour, will learn a lot from a town hall meeting.

Lena L. West, 06/08/12

CEO & Chief Social Media Strategist, Influence Expansion

Here are five ideas -- including some for you right-brainers out there -- to liven things up and renew your commitment to building your thought leadership online.

Ron Ashkenas, 06/07/12

Business writer

All managers face real constraints. Effective managers differentiate between those that must be accepted and those that can be challenged.

Daniel Burrus, 06/07/12

Technology Futurist, Keynote Speaker, Author

Sure, your site might look great on a desktop or laptop computer screen. But how does it look on all of the different sizes of screens found on today's wide variety of tablets and smartphones? Chances are the answer is "not good."

Ryan Holmes, 06/07/12

CEO, HootSuite

While consumer social like Facebook and Twitter gets the headlines, perhaps the greatest untapped potential for social networking lies in business applications.

Gene Marks, 06/06/12

Small business management columnist, author, speaker, and business owner

The papal visit will bring plenty of opportunities to profit. And why not? People surely love the Pope. But they also love a good week down the Jersey Shore and a new car. Smart business people are already thinking of ways to bring these loves together in 2015.

Maggie Jackson, 06/06/12

Award-winning columnist, author of "Distracted"

In a new world of elongated lives and career fluidity, we need to have patience -- with ourselves.
That was perhaps the most poignant and startling point articulated by a panel on "Second Careers, Doing Good" held last weekend at my Yale college reunion.

Mary Ellen Biery, 06/05/12

Research Specialist, Sageworks

Desperate times call for desperate measures, the saying goes. So it's not surprising that fraud in the workplace increased during the economic crisis and recession.

Melinda Emerson, 06/06/12

Author, Speaker and Small Business Coach

Building a social media brand is a major factor in small business success, but the key is being niche focused.

Anne Hill, 06/04/12

Author, Consultant, Radio Host, Public Speaker

Strange as it may seem, success catches many people off-guard. If you have been striving for years to build your brand and attain influence, it can feel very odd to realize that things really are taking off.

Blanche Lincoln, 06/06/12

Former U.S. Senator (D-AR); Chair, NFIB's Small Businesses for Sensible Regulations campaign

When you ask small business owners from Nevada to Pennsylvania what the greatest obstacle in the way of their success is, they echo what numerous studies have indicated for months: government regulations.