3 Ways to Simplify Your Company Culture and Build Trust

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The 2015 books are closed and the 2016 kickoff meetings have concluded. Now is the perfect time to take one final look at what went well last year and what we could have done better. It’s also a great time to review our 2016 priorities. Which areas demand better performance? Which programs will we emphasize in the coming months?

From Elon Musk to Richard Branson: What These 5 Famous Leaders Learned From Their Mothers

By Carolyn Sun

With Mother’s Day coming up, we’d like to take this opportunity to give a big ole fist bump to the mothers of some of the greatest leaders and learn about how they lived by example.

After all, it was Abe Lincoln who once said, “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

30 ideas de negocio para importar

Muchas veces, lo que funciona fuera, también puede triunfar en nuestro país. Por eso hemos seleccionado 30 modelos de negocio que están teniendo éxito fuera de nuestras fronteras, para que vayas tomando nota.

Case Study: Should You Adjust Your Business Model for a Major Customer?

“There’s another one!” Cameron Burke’s son said, pointing to a darkened streetlight across the park. “But it’s out too!” Cameron regretted having started this game with his four-year-old. His company, Lumiscape, produced smart, connected streetlights that had been installed in cities throughout the United States, including Cleveland, where they were now, visiting his parents. He and Graham had decided to squeeze in a walk to Forest Hill Park before bedtime, and he’d challenged the boy to count all the lights he could find. But they’d already seen three that weren’t working properly.

Las 20 principales razones por las que las startups fracasan

Ser dueño de tu propio tiempo, no tener horarios ni tope de sueldo y no rendir cuentas a ningún superior, son sólo algunas de las ventajas de tener tu propia empresa.

Sin embargo, el camino no es tan fácil como la mayoría imagina y el éxito muy pocas veces depende de la buena suerte, nunca la frase “si fuera fácil cualquiera lo haría” ha encajado tan bien en una situación.

10 Things that stress out entrepreneurs more than anything

By Jason DeMers

Entrepreneurship is a stressful role for anybody. You’ll be in charge of leading people, making decisions, and determining the fate of your business with your actions -- and to top it all off, you'll probably have a significant chunk of your personal savings invested in the project. All those stressful little situations you ran into as an employee seem far less important when you’re in charge of your own business; and at the same time, your perspectives on what constitutes a “challenge” or a “concern” will shift.

These 10 situations stress out entrepreneurs more than anything else:

Por qué la inteligencia artificial necesita (como agua de mayo) una pizca de ética #rpTEN

Una entrenadísima red neuronal dotada de inteligencia artificial (y supuestamente muy lista) tuvo en una ocasión la osadía de afirmar con un porcentaje de probabilidad el 99,7% que el sombrero que la reina Isabel II de Inglaterra lucía sobre su regia cabeza era en realidad un gorro de ducha.

Con este ejemplo (tan gracioso como preocupante), Kate Crawford, directora de Investigación Microsoft Research, quiso poner ayer sobre la mesa, durante su intervención en la conferencia de internet re:publica, las múltiples debilidades de una inteligencia artificial repleta no sólo de lagunas técnicas sino también de lagunas éticas.