Thought Leaders
5 Lessons Sitting on a Board Teaches You That Running a Business Often Doesn’t
Here are some valuable business and life lessons you learn from the other side of the table.
Board Meetings
Building a Business
How Board Members Can Help You Through a Recession
With recession looming, having a strong board is now more important than ever.
Business News
7 Habits of Highly Effective Boards
Creating strong boards can help propel a board forward. Weak and ineffective boards hold a company back.
Thought Leaders
Too Many Board Meetings Suffer From This Destructive Flaw
If you really want to make the most of board meetings, this is how.
Building a Business
Building the Right Kind of Unicorn
Unicorns are often criticized for being high risk and offering little in return to investors. So how do you create the right kind of unicorn?
By Renen Hallak
Building a Business
Party of One: Setting Up Your Single-Person Corporation
If two's a bit too much company for your business, the solo route could help you maintain control while offering valuable personal-liability protection.
By Nellie Akalp
Thought Leaders
5 Tips for Running Meetings People Willingly Attend
Today's agenda -- drive alignment, give direction, generate energy and get creative.
Thought Leaders
4 Steps to Avoid ‘Death by Meeting’
It may not be in your 'Physicians Desk Reference,' but Death by Meeting is a real and potentially fatal malady that you can cure.
Thought Leaders
How to Find and Take the Power Seat
Different occasions and seating arrangements lead to different places for that all-important "head of the table."
By Jim Joseph
Building a Business
The Yahoo Board Will Discuss Future of Company, Marissa Mayer During Meeting
There are rumors that the board is considering selling its core Internet business.
By Reuters
Building a Business
In Your Next Board Presentation, Here’s What to Lead With: People
Sure, PowerPoint data presentations will impress. But what's your 'people strategy'?
Thought Leaders
How to Dress for a Business Meeting. Yes, Seriously. (Infographic)
You may be tempted to try the rumpled-hair, hoodie look – just don't.
Business Accounting
Getting the Most From Your Startup’s Board of Directors
Forming a board of directors is no easy feat. So don't waste this precious resource, milk it for all its worth.
By David Chait
Building a Business
Secrets to Yawn-Free Board Meetings
Thinks of board meetings as a conversation to keep your leadership engaged.
Building a Business
Finding the Perfect Board of Directors for Your Startup
Our expert attorney Peter Buckland offers up tips on forming a board of directors.
Building a Business
10 Body Language Tips Every Speaker Must Know (Infographic)
When delivering a presentation before an audience, our words aren't the only thing people pay attention to. Consider this advice for making better eye contact, staying calm and more.
Building a Business
Twitter Adds Its First Female Board Member
She's a former big-business CEO but isn't much of a Twitter user, so far.
By Jay Yarow
Online Presence
What Twitter’s Board Really Needs
Twitter needs diversity on its board, but not in the way you might think.
Online Presence
Twitter CEO Spars With Tech Entrepreneur Over Lack of Women on Board
After a New York Times story critiqued Twitter for having zero women on its board, the social network's CEO aired his opinions -- leading to a social media-infused grudge match.
Human Resources
Ousted Men’s Wearhouse Founder Fires Back in Open Letter
George Zimmer, founder and former executive chairman of the men's clothing retailer, makes his side of the story public.
Buying a Franchise
How a Group of Dry-Cleaners Formed a Collective Franchise
Zips Dry Cleaners is proof that good things can happen when (lots of) great minds think alike.
By Jason Daley