Achieve Your Lifelong Goals Thru Financial Planning

Personal finance is a subject that is of great interest to almost anyone who holds money in their hands. Even children are interested in personal finance even if they don’t know that they should use that terminology to define this interest. From the minute they get...

10 Stealthy Techniques for Self-Promotion

Marketing is a lot like fishing—some companies cast a wide net to scoop up whatever they can get, while others use bait and wait it out until the right customer takes a nibble. To be successful, you need a combination of both techniques to not only grab a large number...

Why Best Buy is Going out of Business…Gradually

Those are just some of the numbers, and they don’t look good. They bear out a prediction in March from the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Streets column, which forecast “the worst is yet to come” for Best Buy investors. With the flop of 3D televisions and...
The Proper Amount of Business Liability Coverage

The Proper Amount of Business Liability Coverage

There is no set formula regarding how much liability a business needs. However, the more coverage you have, the more bulletproof your business becomes. If you are running a very successful business, you will probably want minimal disruption if an incident occurs in...

Hiring Executives: How to Move Beyond First Impressions

What are they really like? Little things can be revealing in an interview and a skilled interviewer can look beneath the surface to discover the real candidate. Selecting the right people to lead and build effective executive teams is critical to developing successful...

The Rise of the New Groupthink

SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools, and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from the oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for...

Role reversal: Employers say they can’t find workers

With 13 million unemployed people seeking work in this country, it would seem like anyone who wants to hire someone would have little difficulty doing so. But that’s not what many employers are saying. More than half of U.S. employers surveyed by the staffing firm...

Your Résumé vs. Oblivion

Recruiters and hiring managers are overwhelmed by the volume of resumes pouring in, thanks to the weak job market and new tools that let applicants apply for a job with as little as one mouse click. The professional networking website LinkedIn recently introduced an...