Topic: Education

How can several multi-million dollar basketball teams overlook Jeremy Lin, a dormant star player who was on their own teams? Unfortunately, conventional wisdom and thinking routinely prevent managers from finding, hiring and/or utilizing star players at companies around the world.   Read More

You’ve heard the expression “putting your feet to the fire,” but one Cornell professor is doing that literally. He teaches workshops and corporate training exercises in the art of firewalking.   Read More

We live in a world where our kids can find anything about everything on the internet. This generation knows more about technology than most of their parents. So, why is it that they can know so much, communicate so quickly and also be “connected” 24 hours a day, but they still don’t know the basics about money?    Read More

The new book, "Who’s In the Room?", offers one of the first indepth looks at how decision making actually occurs within Senior Management Teams and how it breaks down.   Read More

Kids have been writing their names, proclamations of love and angst-filled manifestos on bathroom stalls since the invention of the permanent marker. Well now, thanks to the recession, cash-strapped universities are offering the opportunity to get your name on that wall 4-EVER!   Read More

As venture capital and private equity continue to make news headlines, some entrepreneurs may find it challenging to distinguish fact from fiction.   Read More

Back from an investment-finding trip to Russia, trader Tim Seymour shared a few major themes he found.   Read More

Everyone who has ever accomplished anything of note has experienced failure, probably more than once or twice. Failure is always a real possibility when you step out to do something great....but how do you rebuild from total failure?    Read More

Many people associate boredom with unhappiness or laziness. We go to great lengths to avoid the possibility of being stuck with no distractions. But boredom actually holds the secret to something we all want: contentment, personal growth, and perhaps even professional success.    Read More

Is it possible for a woman to have it all - a great career and a fabulous family? Mrs. Moneypenny says your dreams of having it all, may be "severely deluded."   Read More