In tough economic times companies notoriously try to cut costs by resorting to their fallback plan: employee layoffs. Millions of them....

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Some of the best innovations we've had in business come from what I call the Meteorite Plan. The premise is, what would you do if a huge...

I spend a lot of time with entrepreneurs -- some would say too much time -- and invariably the conversation flows into the first few...

I travel - a lot. Somewhere between 100 and 200 flights a year. I also have about that many hotel stays, and I still drive a lot of...

I once received a last-minute invitation to visit Ireland's most famous band, U2, in Dublin along with a long week of parties and...

I've spent almost my entire business life paranoid. It's not the most relaxing way to live -- I envy friends who walk around with a...

Tony Alessandra, the author of The Platinum Rule, is a hall of fame professional speaker, a bestselling author, and is close friends with...

My wife is a trusting woman. She is very smart, and yet when our oldest child was an infant, for some reason she still thought it would...

I’ve spent my life working with incentives. Knowing how they work and using them effectively has proven to be one of the most powerful...

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