In the movie “Limitless,” someone with infinite potential went straight to the stock market to make huge gains quickly. The goal of Peter Leeds’ Invest in Penny Stocks is to give you the tools that could help you do the same thing.

The book describes the Leeds Analysis system for picking which penny stocks to invest [...]

Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers reminded me of John Donne’s famous words, “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”

Outliers points out that none of us reached this point in our lives by ourselves; we are all part of an interconnected web of political, [...]

Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to participate in The Legally Steal Show on Blog Talk Radio, and the topic was helping entrepreneurs start their own business when jobs are still pretty scarce in this economy. One great question that arose was, “What are the benefits of becoming a business owner?” In other words, there are [...]

In 2006, B2B CFO founder Jerry Mills self-published The Danger Zone: Lost in the Growth Transition. The 200-page book touches on topics ranging from triangular business relationships and common entrepreneur personality traits, to maximizing your chances of getting a business loan/line and preventing internal theft. Critics of the book might assert that each of those [...]

Cypress Financial Group is offering a free business session that will cover health care reform and the specialized benefits needs of small businesses. Led by Dr. Ron Leopold, the event will take place on Tuesday, 2/8/11, from 8:30AM – 11:00AM at 5900 N. Andrews Ave., 8th Floor, in Fort Lauderdale.

Per a flyer for the event:

“In [...]

I thought Ken Fisher’s The Ten Roads to Riches was refreshingly original, frank, and thought-provoking. It reminded me a little of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged in its clear and unapologetic message that individuals (and perhaps all of society collectively) would be better off if each person strove to become rich. Not just financially comfortable, but [...]

Global companies such as Franklin Templeton have business processes that “follow the sun” from Asia to Europe to California, so it makes sense for their business to continue 24/7. Other organizations such as hospitals require continuous coverage of patients, so third shifts are necessary for patients’ overall health and well-being.

Recently, however, management teams seem to be [...]

I’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. Here are some examples of common New Year’s resolutions for small business owners and other leaders:

Be more productive.
Answer incoming calls/emails more promptly.
Make more outgoing calls to sales prospects and referral sources.
Stop leaving or arriving at the office so late.
Organize the _______ (cluttered office, overflowing Outlook inbox, [...]

A business leader who shudders at the idea of writing a performance appraisal might relish the idea of a CD-ROM with almost 200 examples of successfully completed reviews from which you can copy-and-paste directly into your own forms. At first glance, that desirable resource is the Bonus CD-ROM accompanying 199 Pre-Written Employee Performance Appraisals. However, [...]

Q: There are business coaches, life coaches, executive coaches, professional coaches – how do business leaders know which coach does what? And how is coaching different from consulting?

A: An executive coach could be skilled only in leadership development, focusing only on helping leaders develop their skills in coaching, delegating, giving feedback, and so forth. A [...]