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Happy “Small Business Saturday” to all our American friends. It’s so designated because, after the rush and crush of Black Friday, everyone is being encouraged today to shop with their local small businesses. Perhaps you will find some gem that isn't advertised on TV, or discover a .. read full article »

Hello world! For those of you residing outside the United States, this one's for you.  A valuable resource that covers:The Steps In Selling To US Importers Best Ways To Market And Sell To US ImportersHow NOT To Market And Sell To US ImportersReasons Exporters Are Not Successful In The US .. read full article »

I am often stumped by people's questions like "how to use social media" That's because I didn't have an objective when I started engaging and connecting with people. Those were the social web was a much more innocent and idealistic place I was a blogger first and then dabbled in Facebook and .. read full article »

And this is pretty cool too: Ice Carving Secrets.Posted by:  The Global Small Business Blog read full article »

Brand RewiredConnecting Branding, Creativity, and Intellectual Property StrategyBy: Anne H. Chasser, Jennifer C. WolfePublished: July 8, 2010Format: Hardcover, 224 pagesISBN-10: 0470575425ISBN-13: 978-0470575420Publisher: John Wiley & Sons"The key to economic success in developing and .. read full article »

I have often wondering with the paradoxical demands on Human Resources folks why it persists in being a "single" department. Personally sometimes I feel that Human Resources/ Human Capital/ People Dept - whatever you need to call it - should be cleaved into at least three different groups - and .. read full article »

Turkey (pictured) just about done.  Have a Happy Thanksgiving and be grateful for every precious little thing in your life.  I am blessed by your readership -- thank you!  Enjoy the day.Photo credit:  Laurel Delaney, The Global Small Business Blog read full article »

Often I wonder whether HR folks concentrate too much on process rather than thinking about practice. By practice, I mean the level of maturity of the business and the culture. Sometimes I feel the easiest things Human Resources folks find is to make policies - sometimes with a little bit of .. read full article »

Perform Like A Rock Star ...and Still Have Time for LunchBy: Orna W. DrawasPubiished: April 1, 2010Format: Paperback, 216 pagesISBN-10: 0984265104ISBN-13: 978-0984265107Publisher: ROI Marketing"When you perform like a rock star, something special happens. People notice you. People come to admire .. read full article »

Before you can build your platform on the Web and create your online visiblity strategy, you need to be clear about a few things.You need to know who are you and your reason for being in business. What’s your purpose for having a business? What’s your purpose for creating your space on .. read full article »

The day after Thanksgiving poses a policy question for managers. It is the traditional start of the Christmas shopping season in the US. There is a growing trend toward online ...Read Full Post read full article »

In the course of learning about Enterprise 2.0 I have been fortunate to read and learn from JP (@jobsworth on Twitter) so when I heard that the former Chief Scientist at BT would now move to Salesforce also as chief scientist I am pretty excitedJP is considered to be the philosopher guide of .. read full article »

Based on this article, it is vital to build your global skill sets, to learn how work is done offshore, and to educate yourself on projects and teams that work with offshore components either internationally or through a service provider. “The whole world is going global, and especially in the .. read full article »

On a grey November night in Toronto, I cruised down the sunny Trans-Canada Highway from Banff to the BC border... courtesy of Google Street View. I find this addendum to Google Maps fascinating. It's a useful tool for previewing places I am headed to (eg, Saskatoon next week), or an intriguing .. read full article »

World Class Diversity ManagementA Strategic ApproachBy: R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. Published: August 9, 2010Format: Hardcover, 288 pagesISBN-10: 1605094501ISBN-13: 978-1605094502Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers"Practicing World-Class Diversity Management means operating a level that is the .. read full article »

Thursday, November 25 we celebrate the Thanksgiving Day holiday in the US. Most offices and other workplaces are closed, many for the next four days. It gives us an opportunity ...Read Full Post read full article »

I love to do business with small businesses—in-store, online, for myself, for others, for pleasure, for work—it doesn’t matter to me. I love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. And I love to help small business owners because they .. read full article »

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed." Henry Ford, founder, Ford Motor Co. (1863-1947)Speaking of imagination: just imagine how different the North American .. read full article »

According to a recent article in the WSJ, "Web Start-Ups Search History," a newer generation of start-ups such as Yelp Inc. and Groupon Inc. are going global. They are studying their predecessors and adapting successful ideas -- such as using acquisitions or partnerships to enter markets where .. read full article »

Listen to Wayne Hurlbert on Blog Talk RadioLeading training and development expert and Partner in Designed Learning, Peter Block, and Emeritus Professor of education and social policy and coordinator of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern University, John McKnight, .. read full article »

Read our esteemed colleague (and friend) Anita's Campbell's (founder of Small Business Trends) great post:How to Prepare Your Business to Go GlobalShe offers five helpful tips to consider before you take the leap.Posted by:  The Global Small Business Blog read full article »

I'm not on the staff of the Transportation Security Administration, but I've been doing some pat-downs of my own lately. Entrepreneurial pat-downs. Of women. From the waist down. Now that I have your attention: in the past months I've written about two fascinating women-owned entrepreneurial .. read full article »

The Abundant CommunityAwakening the Power of Families and NeighborhoodsBy: John McKnight, Peter BlockPublished: June 14, 2010Format: Hardcover, 200 pagesISBN-10: 1605095842ISBN-13: 978-1605095844 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers"There is a growing movement of people with a different vision .. read full article »

Rashmi Bansal makes the case for building "emotional gyms" in today's workplace for HR and business leaders to deal with Emotional Atyachar - moving beyond itOnce upon a time, men came to office, did the work they had to, and went home at 6 o clock in the evening. There, a hot meal and .. read full article »

One of the more popular articles on this site is The Lesson of the Red Horse. In that article I described the lessons I learned from my nine-year old niece about employee motivation.Recently I found a similar article, What a 4-Year-Old Can Teach You About Managing Your Boss, on the MSN Careers .. read full article »

The story starts in 2004 when I took a 5 year loan against commercial property from KM Bank at 11.25% Rate of Interest (ROI). A year later when I topped up this loan, the first loan had risen to an ROI of 11.75% and the additional amount was given at 12%. I didn't understand how the same bank .. read full article »

Friend Arvind Sahay at IIM A awarded the Devang Mehta Award for the Best Business Professor in Marketing Management in India. Congrats! # That's it? A $4B scam and he just walks away? | The Hindu : Communications Minister Raja resigns http://bit.ly/bA3lOn # US senate tooRT @felixsalmon: .. read full article »

As part of his ongoing coverage “Making Sen$e” of financial news, Paul Solman sat down with Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, co-authors of All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. Bethany McLean, famous for breaking the Enron story, is a contributing editor of .. read full article »

Ever since I blogged about Making Work Meaningful and Professionalism and Love of Work my thoughts have returned to Viktor Frankl's book "Man's Cry For Meaning" and his work on Logotherapy. Frankl was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp and wikipedia tells us: It was due to his and .. read full article »

Abhijit Bhaduri talks about Preparing Talent for Tomorrow's Challenges in Knowledge@ WhartonOne of the ways in which we are going expand is to go with a localized talent pool in some markets, which means we are going to have to work very hard to assimilate people into the Wipro way of working .. read full article »

Sometimes the first photo is not always the best.  It's more intriguing to capture moments as they occur.  I love the simpleness, cleanness and color in these shots.  On the day (11/19/10) these flags were photographed, I was out at the Chicago lakefront.  The temperature was about 39 .. read full article »

Professor in the Department of Health Services and Co-Director of UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, Toni Yancey, MD, MPH, in her inspirational and health transformational book Instant Recess: Building a .. read full article »

Instant RecessBuilding a Fit Nation 10 Minutes at a TimeBy: Toni Yancey, MD, MPHPublished: November 3, 2010Format: Paperback, 280 pagesISBN-10: 0520263766ISBN-13: 978-0520263765Publisher: University of California Press"The societal benefits of of physical activity cannot be fully realized until .. read full article »

GigaOm’s conference NetWork 2010 next month is about the future of work. Mathew Ingram describes the collaboration in distributed teams as the Human Cloud The biggest change, for both workers and companies, is a move toward what we call “the human cloud.” In the same way that high-speed .. read full article »

Successful freelance writer and editor Nathan Segal, was kind enough to take the time and answer a few questions about his very practical and information packed book Secrets of Profitable Freelance Writing. Nathan Segal describes his proven techniques for landing those choice magazine writing .. read full article »

The most underutilized meat export, pork butt -- genteel name is Boston Shoulder Roast -- is set to go international.The U.S. Meat Export Federation thinks that the butt, which has enjoyed a surge in popularity in the U.S. as the raw material for pulled pork sandwiches (as shown), should go .. read full article »

First, let me say the scoring process for Dancing with the Stars (DWTS) is fair. It is honest. It’s just not obvious. It also is weighted 50pct to judge’s scores and 50pct to popular vote.  Which means the votes of viewers have more impact than the judges scores…. Which is  why Bristol .. read full article »

Pittsburgh-area real estate prices are rising, which is a good thing when all things are considered, but relatively low and relatively stable real estate prices have long been central to Pittsburgh's ranking as a "most livable city."  (I'm happy to note that as the year approaches its end, at .. read full article »

Smart managers use Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to measure and track their progress toward their key operational goals. Today I was asked whether there is a trend in KPIs away ...Read Full Post read full article »

Over at the American Express Open Forum, I answer the age-old question of whether a company should make a Facebook fan page or a website. Click here to read it. read full article »

Am proud to be listed at the 6th rank in the HR Examiner top 25 HR Digital Influencers for 2010. The influencers project is part of a series that John Sumser is doing both at a personal level as well as with a digital algorithm. He already profiled me in the top 100 influencers in HR at .. read full article »

My blogging friend @billives blogged about my ex-HP colleague @StanGarfield on Communities of Practice during KM World on how to facilitate communities Personally I think communities form around "identities" or what @gapingvoid calls "social objects" and the more deep the identities - the richer .. read full article »

This post is part of the series on Text-to-Speech (TTS) for eLearning written by Dr. Joel Harband and edited by me. The other posts are: Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality, Digital Signal Processor and Text-to-Speech, Using Text-to-Speech in an eLearning Course, .. read full article »

For one week, millions of young people around the world join a growing movement of entrepreneurial people, to generate new ideas and to seek better ways of doing things.The movement is called Global Entrepreneurship Week 2010 (runs November 15-21).How are you getting involved?Learn more .. read full article »

In the Sixties, women burned their bras. In 2011, Scott Gerber wants young people to burn their resumes. Gerber, Gen Y entrepreneur and author of Never Get a Real Job (Wiley, 2010)  is starting what he calls the "Death to the Resume" movement, which will kick off with a competition in which .. read full article »

Last weekend I delivered a keynote on "Secrets from Canada's Top Entrepreneurs" to 200 student delegates at the Impact 2010 conference in Toronto. Little did I know that some members of the audience were Tweeting portions of my speech.The cool thing about Twitter is that when people tweet about .. read full article »

Listen to Wayne Hurlbert on Blog Talk RadioSuccessful thirteen year veteran freelance writer and editor, and author of the very practical and information packed book Secrets of Profitable Freelance Writing, Nathan Segal, shares his secrets for finding and landing more freelance writing jobs. .. read full article »

A couple of unconnected things are throwing dark shadows over this dream run that Foreign Direct Investment into the Indian economy has been having. One, the Income Tax department’s claim on Vodafone for $2.5 B related to its acquisition of a controlling stake in Hutchison Essar. Two, the .. read full article »

Secrets of Profitable Freelance WritingBy: Nathan SegalPublished: August 30, 2010Format: Paperback, 104 pagesISBN-10: 0978491912ISBN-13: 978-0978491918Publisher: Nathan Segal"What I am going to show you in this manual are my fastest methods for finding work, obtaining great assignments and .. read full article »

According to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Netflix Inc. is “primarily a streaming company that also offers DVD-by-mail.”In addition, the company is also looking to expand internationally. Already, Netflix is available in Canada. However, the company is considering moving “beyond North .. read full article »