Today's C-Suite leaders have high expectations of data. They want to be able to whip out their smartphones and bring up beautiful visualizations of trends that give them actionable insights into the business at a granular level.

Tha...

There's no way to sugarcoat this: Small and midsize businesses should be scared to death about the consequences of the Inflation Reduction Act. Unless they provide goods and services to the green energy industry, the law's unforeseen conseque...

There has been a significant increase in anxiety and depression among college students. Recent data from the CDC suggests a disproportionate risk for mental health problems in college-age people; one study reported that nine out of 10 college stu...

If you're still requiring your team to show up in the office every day, then you might have a business problem that has nothing to do with remote work.

Maybe you're change-averse. Maybe you're operating in a culture that prizes proces...

The supply-chain crisis has prompted endless commentary about how long the disruptions will last before we get back to the pre-Covid normal. Analysts have resorted to poring over shipping container rates, checking heat maps on Shanghai area manuf...

M&A is surging, but as many CEOs are learning the hard way, announcing a deal and then making it work can be two very different things.

Deals that look great on spreadsheets can still hit severe obstacles when companies struggle t...

On a recent weekend in Madison, Wisconsin, cars on the street had the look of a bygone era. I saw surviving Saturns, Oldsmobile minivans, even that funky old greenhouse on wheels, the AMC Pacer.  

Turns out, cars in the rest of t...

Crypto winter has arrived-and it's chilly out there for the thousands of employees being laid off in response to the sector's worst downturn in several years.

I should know. My cryptocurrency company is one of the many that had...

Companies that adopt digital-first systems across operations, sales, marketing, and more can realize significant cost savings - cutting down on labor needs, leveraging data and business intelligence tools, and even reducing time to market. But,...

Conventional wisdom holds that it's a scary time to be in the automotive aftermarket business. The message that's implied is that you need to transform your business now or you'll have missed the runaway the EV bonanza forever.

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Market volatility and inflation are forcing companies to slash spending. In uncertain times like these, there's a tendency toward across-the-board cuts, so every department shares in the pain. But if you plan to include cybersecurity in your cu...

High school students today face the prospect of graduating into a world that immediately weighs them down with student debt and out-of-control product prices. Fortunately, there's a growing trend in American secondary education that can help them...

It's been a good run. Business consumers of software have enjoyed stable or even falling prices amid an explosion in productivity and choice. Plentiful capital, intense competition, and a strong pace of innovation over two decades deterred tech...

When seeking a new job or a promotion, conventional wisdom suggests you position yourself as a specialist in your field. However, there is little conventional about today's job market, as career paths become less linear and increasingly flexible....

Across the country, legislators are piling on regulations and restrictions that make it harder to build and maintain affordable housing at a time of desperate need.

In Dover-Foxcroft, a small town in Maine, a drafted moratorium on ma...

As cybersecurity threats surge in frequency and sophistication, most MSPs have incident response plans in place. But not all plans are sufficient - something that quickly becomes clear when attackers succeed in breaching their defenses.

The war in Ukraine may be thousands of miles away, but it feels unnervingly close to home for many American workers.

Relentless news coverage of bombed hospitals, burning homes, and dazed refugees can leave company employees, who are...

But peek under the hood, and all is not nearly as bad as it seems. You can navigate these financial speed bumps with less pain by taking a buyer beware approach - and scrutinizing your auto loan as closely as you research your new vehicle.

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Think big. Find and reward talent. Earn credibility.

Those are the three hardest-earned lessons I've learned after more than two decades of work as a chief operating officer and top leader of several different organizations in vario...

If you've filled up on gas, bought a plane ticket or checked your grocery bill, you know that the fastest inflation in 40 years is biting hard.

Those soaring prices mean tougher decisions at check-out. For those of us who are alread...