A fellow internet radio host recently joined the business mentoring website that I co-own with Alice Seba of InternetBasedMoms.com. Soon after, she sent me an instant message that said, ?You and Alice are sure drawing me out of my comfort zone!? I understood immediately what she meant. In the short period of time since she joined our site, she has completely redesigned her website and stepped up on some of the business tools that she needed to make her business run more sm...

Columnist Nan Russell shares career insights learned over 20 years in the corporate world, including as a Vice President at QVC

Granted, when you're dealing with high-powered executives, programmers or salespeople, a Friday afternoon pizza party may not be quite the ticket. Higher goals merit higher rewards - but the principle remains the same. If you're planning a corporate event weekend, then your plans should include all three arms of the success formula - recognition, reward and motivation.

Some awareness is required from the public end to get rid of the scams.

The title of this article may sound a little strange. What did I mean by located and faced for prosperity? I must warn that this is not a typical business article. It has nothing to do with marketing, sales, productivity or even the internet. It is about a branch of Chinese Metaphysics called Feng Shui.

For a driver, a blind spot is an area not easily seen. It may be the area the mirrors miss, either beside or behind the driver...or is simply forgotten by the driver. Accidents occur when the driver changes lanes and there is another car in their blind spot. As humans (and executives!), we have blind spots in our lives and businesses as well, and these blind spots cause all sorts of trouble.

My experience in my two plus decades of being in business and in coaching business clients around the world is that the system of meetings, clearly, must change. Most meetings don?t include participant involvement and actually serve to tune people out rather than tune them in, and as a result, the intention of the meeting falls short of its purpose.

I was slowed down when my computer crashed and I had no data, no address book and not even my passwords to get back online. I didn?t think I was doing anything remarkable by bouncing back to productivity even with this handicap for a week. But from the feedback I?ve had from more than a few people, it seems paralysis would have been the acceptable common option. Yes, I got slowed down, but nothing critical was lost and no appointments missed. Why? Internal reserves, resou...

The ability to choose and complete tasks in the order of importance highly desirable and more challenging for some business types than others.

Retail Performance Methodology is based on key principles adopted and tailored by retailers to gain competitive advantage and improve sales performance. The basic principles of a successful Retail Performance Management Model will: 1. Instill a customer focused, sales oriented culture throughout the organization 2. Introduce a methodology for setting standards, tracking, measuring and reporting results, identifying under performance and coaching for success 3. Bri...