People are always talking about how important product packaging is and all of the different things that it tells customers about your brand. But even though the design is important, you need to remember that packaging is, first and foremost, a functional item. A lot of businesses spend so much time thinking about branding that…

We judge others by the way they make their money. How did they make their money? It’s a fair question to ask. Money I don’t respect I once interviewed a woman millionaire, she became a millionaire from stock options in Microsoft. She worked in human resources, she didn’t have a particularly special talent, nor took…

About Chad Foster Chad Foster is a motivational keynote speaker, sales/finance leader, and inspirational change agent who works at Red Hat/IBM. Chad Foster was the first blind executive to graduate from Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development. Despite going blind while attending college in his early twenties, Chad started at Accenture and has built…

When you run a small business, closing sales is one of the most important things you can do. No matter how much time and effort – not to mention money – you put into your marketing or your website or even your products and services, if you’re unable to close a sale, you won’t reach…

About Brad Johnson Ph. D. Brad Johnson, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology in the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at the United States Naval Academy, and a faculty associate in the Graduate School of Education at Johns Hopkins University. A clinical psychologist and former commissioned officer in the Navy’s Medical Service Corps, Dr.…

Many office-based businesses mean that the workforce are sedentary for the majority of the day. Employees also have access to email and messenger systems, meaning that they don’t even need to walk over to someone else to ask a question; it can all be done immediately online. Many employees take a working lunch to quickly…