Before you spend another hour at the office, consider if it will be time well-spent. Here's how. For a long time, the picture of a good employee in the U.S. has been someone who stays late, comes in on weekends, and always appears to be grinding away. People like this sometimes make a big show of how busy they are. MORE >>

by Michael Houlihan, coauthor of “ The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built a Bestseller “. It’s official: Email, texting, and social media are no longer just helpful supplemental business tools. They’ve taken over the whole game. And face-to-face meetings — well, they’re almost unheard of. Misunderstandings abound. It’s special! MORE >>

The new salesperson is "plugged into" an industry rather than plodding from customer to customer. Traditionally, business-to-business selling involves face-to-face conversations. His research recently revealed that corporate hiring for "outside" sales positions had leveled off at a measly.5 percent annual growth. Now you know why. MORE >>

As Amy and I sit in the sun at South Beach eating frozen grapes and waiting for the snowpocalypse to hit the east coast, we decided to pick the Startup Life Win a Dinner  winners. There are two – one of Amazon orders and one for Barnes & Noble orders. Except, one B&N person entered 10 times (by buying 10 books). Startup Life MORE >>

American manufacturing has a new artisanal image--and a new ad agency from the creative team of Crispin Porter + Bogusky. The Made in America brand once embodied ruggedness and a kind of strait-laced patriotism, but recently it has morphed into a symbol of artisanal design and environmental sustainability. And both have been wildly successful. MORE >>