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Martin Hayward is Vice President, Global Digital Strategy at Aimia, a global leader in loyalty management, with unique capabilities and proven expertise in delivering proprietary loyalty services, launching and managing...

Ed is the founder of Leadership Call, LLC. an emotional intelligence based performance optimization firm. Leadership Call, LLC works with individuals and organizations to improve human performance ��through harnessing...

Ever been to so many meetings that you couldn't get your work done? Ever fallen asleep during a bulletpoint presentation? Ever watched the news and ended up knowing less? Welcome to the land of Blah Blah Blah. The...

An original workbook companion to the acclaimed business bestseller The Back of the Napkin Dan Roam's The Back of the Napkin, a BusinessWeek bestseller, taught readers the power of brainstorming and communicating with...

The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm���shattering new way to think about motivation. Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money���the carrot-and-stick approach....

The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead...

My favorite South Park episode is called ���Gnomes.�����Here���s the gist of the story, as I remember it. Tweek���s underpants are being stolen. He has only one pair left. Tweek invites the boys to sleep over and catch the...

Where do you draw the line? ���It���s easy as an entrepreneur, as a small business owner, to spend 100 hours a week working because, well, there���s always something we could do��� Stephen Shapiro, innovation consultant and...

"If you���re getting left behind its because you���re stuck asking the wrong questions".�� Seth Godin, marketing guru and bestselling author of countless business books including Linchpin��and Purple Cow, recently spoke with...

No matter where you are on the organizational ladder, the odds are high that you've delivered a high-stakes presentation to your peers, your boss, your customers, or the general public. Presentation software is one...

Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. Unfortunately all too often audiences leave feeling like they���ve wasted their time or somehow missed the point completely. And prettying-up the...

More doesn't scale forever. Why are we so bad at engaging with this obvious truth? In Malcolm's new book, he points out that our expectation is that most things will respond in a linear way. More input gets us more...

I think the toughest job is selling you on you and the awesomeness of you. That���s a work and process every day. Giving yourself pointers and tips and keeping your chin up when you���re faced with adverse situations. You...

Visual thinking is the future of business problem solving. Using our innate ability to see ��� both with our eyes and our mind���s eye ��� gives us entirely new ways to discover hidden ideas, develop those ideas intuitively,...

In the Industrial Age, the 1950, 1960s, the peak of it, the goal was to be a big business. An industrialist, someone who did a reliable thing for average people, again and again; a Canadian Tire, a Stelco, or even a Tim...

We really only have one job in business and it���s the ability to keep our customers happy. In my book, Ctrl Alt Delete, I talk about the power of direct customer relationships. What are you doing everyday to ensure that...

Here���s the standard social media cycle: 1. Get outrageously excited about social. 2. Rush into a social strategy headlong. 3. Lots of tweeting, facebooking, Google plussing. 4. Wonder why nothing magical seems to be...

Studies consistently show that quality leadership development programs pay off for companies -- in the form of shareholder returns, market share growth, and sales. However, many companies have inadequate leadership...

One of the most provocative entrepreneurs of our time, Eck�� has built his company into a billion-dollar fashion and media empire. Now he steps out from behind the rhino to reveal a visionary formula for building an...

Denise initially cultivated her brand-building approaches through several high-level positions in advertising and client-side marketing. She served as lead strategist at advertising agencies for Burger King and Land...