Optimism Begins to Fade as Recovery Lags; ‘Betting on 2010 Is Playing Poker’ For business owner Chet Biernat, recovery is coming in fits and starts. His transportation brokerage company, INCON Container USA Ltd., saw sales slip up to 30% in the recession. As customers now trickle back, the Royal Palm Beach, Fla., company is seeing […]
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25 Ways to Jump-Start Your Business
Looking for ways to make your company more productive, make your team more creative, and make your operations more efficient? If so, then check out these 25 strategies, which range from thoughts on leadership to advice on how to motivate employees to ways of reducing IT costs. Each of these ideas has been tested by […]
Italian Trade Commish on Recession, Exports
Italy’s Trade Commissioner Aniello Musella on how the economy has hurt the luxury goods and eyewear markets. Watch the latest business video at <a href=”http://video.foxbusiness.com/” mce_href=”http://video.foxbusiness.com/”>video.foxbusiness.com</a>
Innovation a Top 3 Priority-What about metrics?
According to yearly McKinsey surveys, innovation is one of the Top 3 priorities for around two-thirds of companies. It is a critical enabler of differentiation and growth. To create a sense of urgency, align individual performance contracts, and convincingly communicate with investors about innovation, companies need to assess the effectiveness of and return on their […]
Putting Your Employees First
Union Square Hospitality Group CEO Danny Meyer focuses on the importance of how you treat your employees and customers. Watch the latest business video at video.foxbusiness.com
10 Characteristics of Superior Leaders
Thousands of articles and books have been published describing what it takes to be a superior organizational leader. Some researchers and authors claim a superior leader possesses certain traits or abilities; others say it’s all personality. Still others maintain it’s the behaviors–not necessarily the intentions or thoughts–that are crucial. Whatever your viewpoint, it boils down […]
February’s Top 10 Innovation and Marketing Articles
This year I thought I would experiment with a Top Ten list at the beginning of each month, profiling the ten posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Blogging Innovation. So, without further ado, here are February’s ten most popular innovation or marketing posts: Two Biggest Mistakes in Social Media – […]
5 Ways to Prepare for a Social Media Disaster
I watched the @ThatKevinSmith and @SouthwestAir brouhaha erupt live on Twitter but didn’t write about it last week. Bunches of tweeters and bloggers hashing out who was right and wrong based on second, third, or five hundredth-hand information simply wasn’t interesting enough to warrant adding to the noise. Getting ready for a social media presentation […]
How to Present Your Business to a Crowd
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56 Reasons Why Innovation Initiatives Fail
Innovation is in these days. The word is on the lips of just about every CEO, CFO, CIO, and anyone else with a three-letter acronym after their name. As a result, many companies are launching all kinds of “innovation initiatives” – hoping to stir the soup. This is understandable. But it is also, far too […]
