I don’t know what it is about Marketing, but everyone on earth seems to think they can do it. And yet I see so many people NOT doing it or wasting thousands of dollars and not getting results. I see business owners try the same things over and over,  wasting more money, more time, and more energy. don’t get it. But do you know marketing? Please do! MORE >>

QR codes (“Quick Response” codes) are those little boxes that look like warped checkerboards (or those crazy ink blots) you may have seen popping up everywhere from print mailers, business cards, or even bus stops. But what the heck are they and how do you use them? QR codes are “bar codes on steroids” that [.]. MORE >>

Working overtime doesn't increase your output. It makes you stupid. Arianna Huffington talks often about how the key to her productivity is sleep. It's a smart suggestion, not least because so many of us still imagine that the more we work, the more productive we are. For over a hundred years or more, this has been deemed nonsense. MORE >>

Don’t wait for somebody else to tell you what products to develop and what problems to solve. To find a challenge worthy of your time, look no further than the points of friction in your own life. Study Everyday Situations with an Eye Towards Improving Them. Become a nitpicker. Tweet. Daily Ideas Innovation Leadership MORE >>

Centuries of immigrants risked everything to come to America with the belief that if they worked hard, they would enjoy a better life than their parents had. Since This expectation of lockstep increases in prosperity had become part of the American Dream. For the last sixty or so years, the job market for educated workers worked like an escalator. After MORE >>