The secret to leadership is there aren’t any real secrets. The best leaders have simply gone to school on improving their tradecraft. While the capabilities possessed by the best leaders might seem otherworldly to many, they are merely the outcome of hard work, experience, perspective, and yes, a bit of
In conjunction with the O Music Awards, multimedia entertainer and world-class partier Andrew WK will attempt a 24-hour long drumming world record in Times Square?s Oakley store on June 19th. WK?s marathon is part of the largest online and mobile-only music festival in the world, Live Music Day Festival, organized by MTV, VH1 and CMT. Hosted by comedy duo Randy and Jason Sklar, festivities begin...
Nora Nealis, President of NCA & I The other night, my cousin Barry Bornstein, up in Philadelphia, told me that his building inspections and general contracting business was really picking up. “How come?” I asked, delighted after all the gloomy-doomy tales I’d been hearing from friends in the northeast. “BNI”, he said, not,
Upper One Games is the first indigenous owned video game company in the United States. Announced at the 2013 Games For Change Festival, the partnership between E-Line Media and Cook Inlet Tribal Council aims to make ?meaningful and scalable social impact by creating world-class games and game-based learning infused with Alaska Native values and culture.? Their first consumer game will be a top...
Since 1963 when President John F. Kenney first officially introduced Small Business Week, every president has signed the proclamation to recognize the entrepreneurial spirit that drives most small business owners. From Main Street to Wall Street, small business is an important part of the U.S. Economy. The 30 million or so small businesses in the United States create roughly two out of every...
When one of Ecuador?s premier tour operators set out to create a boutique hotel in old town Quito, they could have gone for a tourist-friendly veneer of international sophistication or played up colonial history at the expense of a dynamic present. Thankfully, they didn?t.
In the wake of the revelation of the National Security Agency's PRISM surveillance program, tech companies have scrambled to counter claims that they give the government direct backdoor access to their servers. But Apple has taken the opportunity to make a bolder claim: That even the company itself can't read
For natural beauty and variety, few places rival the Swiss Alps in summer. On a 10-day trip to the Bernese Oberland last year, my husband and I spent the Fourth of July romping through the snow on top of the Jungfrau; ate breakfast each morning looking out at the hulking Eiger; and hiked panoramic trails connecting mountain villages, with a symphony of cowbells and rushing waterfalls in the...
Some signs of interest in BlackBerry and Windows app platforms are emerging this summer - just as rivalry between BlackBerry and Nokia seems closer than ever. I have talked to three different large app houses over the past week and each of them cited some momentum for Windows over the past six
I'm tired. And it turns out, if you're like most people you're probably thinking, "Me too."

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