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  • Kenneth Cole’s Tasteless Tweet

    Kenneth Cole just made it into the PR hall of shame with this tweet: @KennethCole: Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online at http://www.bit.ly/KCairo -KC Econsultancy has more on Cole’s “hastag hijack”: If you cast your mind back you may remember that Habitat pulled […]

  • How Emotions Drive Your Decisions

    Image: Digital Shotgun/Flickr This is a guest post by Mary Lamia, Ph.D. Your emotional system can give you an advantage in your decision-making if you make proper use of it. Your emotions will drive the decisions you make today, and your success may depend upon your ability to understand and interpret them. Many people think […]

  • 50 Neuroscience Links for Business

    Know your fellow man and you’ll know business. Know your own mind and you’ll know your fellow man. Catching up on how science sees our minds can benefit you socially, personally, and in the workplace. Here are 50 neuroscience links that will amp up your business circuitry. Skills You can use neuroscience and neuropsychology to […]

  • Book Review: The Smart Swarm

    For being at the top of the food chain, humans aren’t terribly evolved. Give us a complex situation like, say, a credit meltdown with a zero accountability, and we drape a TARP and hope it will just go away. Individual humans just aren’t good at making hard decisions in complicated situations. That said, a smart, […]

  • Investors Use Twitter to Follow Stock Market’s Mood

    A hedge fund has created a trading model that lets investors gauge the stock market’s mode via Twitter. Bloomberg has the story: The Derwent Absolute Return Fund Ltd., set to start trading in February with an initial 25 million pounds ($39 million) under management, will follow posts on the social-networking website. A trading model will […]

  • Interview: Keepio Redefines the Selling of Stuff

    Keepio: Easily track what you own and share, buy, and sell with trusted friends from Keepio on Vimeo. Buying and selling stuff online hasn’t reached Web 2.0 yet. While we ingest news and friend updates in real-time, we still have to trust strangers that strangers will pay for the stuff we sell them. Through feeds […]

  • 25 Holiday Gifts for Clients

    Image: The Italian Voice/Flickr ‘Tis the season of giving, especially to those who gave to you during the year. That is to say, clients. Personally, I would rather give a gift someone delights in, not something they will absentmindedly stick in a desk drawer. But this giving philosophy brings up the delicate matter of expenses. […]

  • The 50 Best Mind Hacks on the Web

    Image: JanneM/Flickr Mind hacks. Ever since Tom Stafford and Matt Webb introduced us to the hidden logic of our upstairs system in their 2004 neuroscience tome, these simple tricks have taken the blogosphere by storm. Nowadays, there’s a hack for everything, from your sex life to your kitchen stove. We compiled the Web’s 50 best […]

  • 50 Tips for Mastering Social Media

    Image: Ivan Walsh/Flickr Social media has become serious business. Few other forms of communication offer you the instant network, broad access, and sheer volume of connections that social media does. But to take advantage of this exciting new medium, you need to know what you’re doing. Simply sitting down and talking about your day won’t […]

  • 50 Tips to Help You Sell More

    Image: NomadicLass/Flickr A company won’t survive without selling anything. (Unless you’ve been bailed out, but that’s another story.) Sales truly are a company’s lifeblood. Whether you’re a salesperson or not, you need to keep your sales skills up to date. Here are 50 places to start. Sales Tips for Everybody These general sales tips will […]