Nothing sabotages your productivity quite like bad habits. They are insidious, creeping up on you slowly until you don't even notice the damage they're causing. Bad habits slow you down, decrease your accuracy, make you less creative, and stifle your performance. Getting control of your bad habits is critical, and...

Donald Trump's first week as president was nothing short of explosive, with millions of people expressing anger over new tax proposals, slated changes to healthcare coverage and a planned multibillion-dollar border wall. One group with little to complain about? American billionaires, who have profited hugely off of record-high stock prices during...

The human brain is hardwired to judge. This survival mechanism makes it very hard to meet someone without evaluating and interpreting their behavior. While we tend to think that our judgments are based on the content of conversations and other obvious behaviors, the research says otherwise. In fact,...

Smartphone batteries are a problem. Samsung has hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons and now it is Apple's turn as iPhone batteries are headline news and the releases of iOS 10.2.1 are only making it worse. Fortune called it last month: "It's Time for Apple to Come Clean About the iPhone Battery." This refers to...

Ever wonder which careers out there in the workforce provide the most tension, fear and stress? A new report sheds light on possible answers to that very question. According to a recently released report on stress in the workplace, the jobs that provide workers the most personal nervousness and tension are...

Dear Liz, I started a software company six years ago. We have 18 employees now and hit the $15 million revenue milestone in 2016. I am actively looking for a couple of very senior software people but I always have my eyes open for other talented people who...

Let's face it, Apple has been in a holding pattern. The iPhone 7 is a mixed bag and interest has already moved on to the radical iPhone redesign that will launch in 2017 to celebrate the range's 10th anniversary. Well now this whiz bang iPhone just got even more exciting...

George Soros. Carl Icahn. Dan Loeb. Steve Cohen. Stan Druckenmiller. Titans of the hedge fund investment world. Soros brought down the Bank of England. Icahn won big on Herbalife. Dan Loeb forced change at Yahoo. The secret to their success? Here are five investment lessons from these legendary hedge fund investors that you can apply to your investment portfolio today:...

One day I will dig through the boxes in my garage and find my original, paper job application from a company I worked for when I was very young. In the summer of 1979 I was 19. I had just arrived in Chicago from New York. I loved living in Chicago - the lakefront, the parks, my friends and...

As Theresa May returned home from her unsuccessful visit to India, she would bear witness to another relegation for the UK: India's economy will be larger than the UK's, for the first time in more than 100 years. This dramatic shift has been driven by India's rapid economic growth over the past 25 years as well as...

Big Data. Internet of Things. Virtual Reality. Industry 4.0. These were all prime fields of growth and innovation in 2016 and we can expect these trends to continue into next year and probably far beyond. In truth 2017 is likely to be the year when many of these technologies hit the mainstream - rather than...

Apple has released iOS 10.2 to the general public today. The last time that Apple launched an iOS update was on October 31st with iOS 10.1.1. On that same day, Apple released the developer preview of iOS 10.2. To work out the kinks, Apple iOS 10.2 went through seven beta tests before the public release. This update includes...

Life for a manager inside an organization has an unrelenting pace, with very little uninterrupted time. My colleague Joe Folkman and I have spent two years researching the ways leaders can increase their ability to work faster without comprising quality. Being fast isn't about being frantic. Leaders who were ranked as most successful...

It's been a little more than a month since an election that was the kind of seismic event in our politics that only happens once a century. It sent shock waves through the national political establishment and pretty much any other group of prognosticators that had been banking on an easy Clinton win. No one felt the sting more than...