By: Michèle Hecken, an EO Edmonton member, and Special to Overdrive When you’re building a company across borders with a multinational team, dealing with people from different cultures and relying on them to get things… Read more »
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Business Table Manners – What Not to Do!
By: Beth Miller, a Special to Overdrive Have you ever been in a meeting where one person decided to display a negative attitude? You know, the person who starts reading his PDA, or the other… Read more »
Keys to International Business Communications
By Gayle Cotton, a renowned keynote speaker and internationally recognized authority on cultural science. Fortunately, simple business and social etiquette are often based on common sense. Although etiquette styles and fads may come and go,… Read more »
Avoiding Costly Hiring Mistakes
By Geoff Smart and Randy Street, EO speakers What is not your number-one problem in business. Who is. What problems have to do with the products you sell and processes you use. Who refers to… Read more »
Radicals & Visionaries: Invention vs. Innovation
By: Jennifer Wang, a Special to Overdrive Are successful entrepreneurial concepts the product of nature or of nurture? Do they spring unformed from the minds of inventors, or are they carefully cultivated adaptations of preexisting… Read more »
Marketing in the Future
By: Barbara Findlay Schenck, a Special to Overdrive Any marketer waiting for the world to get back to normal hasn’t been noticing the new reality. Every day, a new headline, book, TED talk or coffee… Read more »
The Brain Science of Startup Positivity
By Dan Martell, special to Overdrive You’re an entrepreneur. You chose this lifestyle and its ups and downs. Insanity aside, how do you survive it? Sure, there’s the age-old “positive thinking leads to positive outcomes” mentality, but… Read more »
How to Survive in a Bad Economy
By: Kim Harrison, an EO Philadelphia member, and founder and CEO of Focus Foward, LLC Everyone knows that times have been tough. That sentiment is not news to any entrepreneur looking to grow a company…. Read more »
Why Getting Away from it All Makes Business Sense
By David Niu, an EO Seattle member and the founder of TINYpulse.com They say entrepreneurship is all about taking risk. In February, I took a big one: I sold everything, stuffed the rest into storage… Read more »
Talent Selection: Who Will Help?
By: Beth Miller, a Special to Overdrive Talent management, including talent selection, is Human Resource’s job, right? Yes, and no. Yes, HR should be involved in the process. But employees in other departments also need… Read more »