Women in Business

Psychotherapist Guy Winch, PhD, author of The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way to Get Results, Improve Your Relationships, and Enhance Self Esteem (Walker & Co.; 2011) offers these steps for using valid...

Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu, chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, talks about how federal programs can better meet the needs of growing companies.

Look around your office. Who are the powerful women? Do they have lots of people reporting to them? Maybe they have the big titles like vice president or director. I’ll bet if you...

As a small business, it can be difficult to keep your head above the water, especially when you’re directly competing with much larger companies. One tried-and-true way to get a piece of the...

Do you ever wish you could reinvent yourself and try something new and more exciting? You certainly aren't alone. Today, millions of Americans are doing just that and leaving their traditional career paths...

The following questions are those a potential home based business owner should consider when either deciding on the type of business or, after deciding, planning a course of action to get from the...

Technology is a vital component of business today. Yet most small businesses struggle with how best to leverage the ever-changing and confounding superabundance of available options. If you find yourself overwhelmed with the...

Every spring marks the beginning of what I call trade show season. Regardless of the type of industry you are in, there is probably at least one major industry-wide trade show each year....

In every boardroom, you will always find three of the four personality types - occasionally, all four. I have discovered over the years which personality is likely to fill which position on the...

“Location, location, location,” it may be a tired old phrase, but it will always hold true for business when considering where to hang your shingle. Not so much a concern for businesses that...

Most successful small business owners know the exact moment when their struggling company turned the corner and headed down the road toward success. Frequently, that moment comes when they land their first really...

You may have heard that President Obama recently had dinner with technology executives in California. No, I wasn’t invited. I did see the photo in the Wall Street Journal. Seeing a room full...

Running a home-based business attracts moms for a variety of reasons. Here, the pros and cons of starting an at-home business.

Your business is much like you, at least when it comes to potential identity theft and Internet security. However, if a personal threat is a thorn in your side, then a business threat...

This past week, as AOL announced its plans to acquire The Huffington Post for a mind-numbing $315 million dollars, leaving co-founder Arianna Huffington at the helm as the president of the newly formed...

Ok so you're balancing work on the one hand and the family on the other. How's that working for you?

Here, Robert Jordan, author of How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America, shares what he has learned through interviews with billionaires on building a successful business.

"Just say no" was a strategy for reducing teenage drug use. If only you could use it with a manager who is overloading you with way to much to do. Are you going...