Life, Leadership, and Money Matters

If you are running a small business, you are already aware of the financial challenges you face, which makes it difficult to take the next step towards success. Try as you might it seems impossible to get out of the profit and loss cycle you have become accustomed to. While…

About Deborah Tuerkheimer Deborah Tuerkheimer is a professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard College and her law degree from Yale Law School. Deborah Tuerkheimer served for five years as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office,…

Working takes up a lot of your time and energy and you spend many hours in the office completing your daily tasks. It’s important that you’re at your best and can perform your job well each day so you can excel in your career. It’s beneficial and in your best…

Running a team is never easy. First-time entrepreneurs often find this out the hard way. Employees mightn’t be as productive as you’d like. They mightn’t live up to their potential. It’s one thing to focus on a worker’s individual potential. It’s quite another to see the potential of the team…

Hard work – that’s how you become successful, right? Well, not so fast. It turns out that hard work is only a small part of the equation. Yes, you need to do something to get the ball rolling, but knuckling down and exerting effort is only a small part of…

About Dick Lehr Dick Lehr, a professor of journalism at Boston University, is the author of seven award-winning works of nonfiction and fiction. They include Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor, and Trell: Nothing But the…