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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink is one of those books that makes you wonder why we are having so much trouble getting over the command-and-control/face- time-and-billable-hours business models. In a nutshell--or should I...

Small business owners have had reasons to feel positive, including steadily rising retail sales since last fall. But now, that confidence is starting to evaporate. June retail sales were down, the National Retail Federation reported. And business owners appear to...

Social media is on the fast track to becoming the core outlet for corporate communications, marketing, public relations and customer service. If your business is not involved in social media via venues including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube, the good...

As a consultant, I often meet with inventors who've created--and sometimes even patented--an innovative product that has the potential to take the marketplace by storm.The problem: It takes more than just ingenuity to get a product onto retailers' shelves and...

The Federal government has tried higher loan guarantees, pleas and threats, but small-business lending has remained anemic. Now, Congress is working on a more direct route to pumping cash into small-business lending -- a new bill that would see the...