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Biz Dev: 10 Rules for Getting It Right
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Scaling Your Start-Up
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7 Perks the Best Employees Crave (and They're All Completely Free)
The war for top talent is fiercer than ever. It goes without saying that you need a great…
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Building Design into a Start-Ups DNA
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To Succeed as a First-Time Leader, Relax
When individual contributors are tapped to manage large-scale projects, oversee direct reports, or…
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How to Manage Managers
When you’re managing managers, your responsibilities are two-fold: you need to make sure they’re…
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What Great Office Design Actually Looks Like
For more information on great office design, read "7 Factors of Great Office Design."
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4 Essentials for Inspiring Leadership
Business owners get frustrated when their employees aren’t performing to their expectations. It…
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Entrepreneur Magazine's Best Cities for Entrepreneurs
The Best Cities for Entrepreneurs to Live and Launch!
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NEA Design Residents: Creating Value in 10 Weeks
Maggie Banks, Jet.com Intern This summer, a select group of design students from world-class…
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Portfolio Spotlight: How Framebridge Aced the Art of Social Media
Interview with Claudia Naim-Burt, Head of Content, Framebridge Framebridge is an online custom…
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What's the best management advice you've ever recieved?
What’s the best management advice you’ve ever received? That was one question we asked Fortune 500…
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What I Wish I’d Known About Culture Before Starting My Company
Don’t expect it to be organic. The Entrepreneur Insiders network is an online community where the…
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To compete with Google, think small
The world has changed since Biblical times, but only so much. (For starters, we’re back to using…
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How to Secure Funding From a Venture Capitalist
A general partner from one of the world's largest and most active venture capital firms offers…
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Social Media Benchmarks
Industry specific benchmarks for social media via TrackMaven
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How To Get Your Company Better Media Coverage
There’s a lot of news out there, despite the decline of the kind that conjoins ink and paper. The…
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Getting Our Arms Around Valuation
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Rethinking HR
It might seem that we have it in for human resources. An article in our April issue urged companies…
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Don’t Assume They’ll Come: Content Can’t Be King Without Distribution
I want you to make this pledge: Never use the word “content” in a meeting without also using the…
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People Before Strategy: A New Role for the CHRO
CEOs know that they depend on their company’s human resources to achieve success. Businesses don’t…
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How Smart Companies Will Support Female Employees
Progressive workplaces today have sleep pods (kudos to The Huffington Post for starting this…
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3 arguments against performance reviews
I don’t like performance reviews. I never liked giving them, and I never liked getting them. They…
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Why We Love to Hate HR…and What HR Can Do About It
Recent complaints about the HR function have touched a nerve in a large, sympathetic audience,…
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Bright, Shiny Objects and the Future of HR
Many of us have had the experience of listening to a talk and suddenly making a connection between…
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Facebook conducted a company-wide study to find its best managers
At Facebook, employees know that they don't need to become managers in order to be successful. "The…
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Here’s what happened when we opened up our board meeting
“There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased that line…” Oscar Levant, 1959…
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7 Ways to Keep Your Best Employees
The single most expensive part of any organization is your employees. Salaries and benefits such as…
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Tired of Useless Meetings? 9 Ways to Make Them More Effective.
Meetings. What a drag they can be. They go longer than they’re supposed to. Someone blabs out of…
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Who You Hire Is the Key to Sustaining Your Company Culture
When you planted the first seed of your budding business, you weren’t just the CEO; you were also…
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How chief information officers become chief innovation officers
In the early 1900s, large organizations needed another type of CEO: Chief Electricity Officer.…
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How to Bring Out the Best in Your Boss
Why do some leaders drain intelligence and capability from their teams while others leaders amplify…
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Seven Traps CEOs Hit When Shopping at the CMO Store
It seems like lots of CEOs are shopping for CMOs these days. On the eve of its IPO, Facebook hired…
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At this Altitude, Not Everyone can Make the Climb
“You are on Mount Everest. This is not for everyone” – Sherpa Tensing, June 2001 Note: I went on a…
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Employee Onboarding is BROKEN
And this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone as most (if not all) of us have had the unfortunate…
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3 Ways to Measure Marketing Performance in 2016
If I were a betting woman, I’d wager that your overarching goal for 2016 is to bring more revenue…
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5 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Hire a PR Firm Right Now
Unlike the IT security and payroll functions of your business, public relations is sexy. Who…
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11 Habits of Highly Effective Leaders
My brother Jim Murphy was in college when he announced he was joining the U.S. Marine Corps. He…
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5 Rules for Stand-Out Marketing Campaigns
Seven years ago, in the midst of an economic recession, Boston’s Yale Appliance + Lighting was…
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The Top B2B Marketing Trends For 2016
The 2016 B2B Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends report from Content Marketing Institute and Marketing…
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YouTube Analytics: 3 Steps To Create Content That Converts
So you want to expand your brand to YouTube. Congratulations! It’s a smart decision for myriad…
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A Small Budget Can Still Go A Long Way With Mobile Engagement
There seems to be a wide range of pricing for mobile apps, and as event managers, we worry about…
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Personalize, Simplify… and Don’t Be Creepy: Lessons from Acquia's Engage 2015 Conference
This week, Boston was the scene of Acquia’s second annual conference for customers and partners:…
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The Non-Designer’s Guide to Hiring a Designer
If you’re a start-up founder looking to hire a designer, chances are you (1) aren’t entirely sure…
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Manifesto for a Modern Worker Class: The On-Demand Contractor
*originally published on the Stride Health Blog This is a call to action. It’s time to start…
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How to Be a Media Star
Press coverage can make a huge difference to your company. Here's how to conduct yourself like a…
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