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The recent New Yorker profile of Jony Ive made him appear as Apple's most important employee. Yet, Apple doesn't report his compensation. Here's how they can do that. Read more

The lack of diversity in tech, both gender-based and racial, is a hot button issue. So, it should come as welcome news that a recent research survey found that three of the top ten desired careers among Black and Hispanic students from low to middle-income families were in the tech Read more

Media agencies have been built to give strictly narrow media recommendations. They were very good at responding to a client's needs and delivering audiences. However, in a consumer-controlled reality they had to transform their offering and mind set from "media" to "integrated marketing communications" Read more

Meet the 11 black billionaires out of the 1,826 people who made it to the 2015 FORBES list of the World's Billionaires Read more

Colleges are facing a perfect storm that could shutter hundreds of them and leave many more wondering how to survive. Yet much of higher education's leadership is in denial that anything is amiss. Read more

Deans need to get out of the narrow world of academic research, and get into the real world of business turnarounds because business-school revenues and cash flow are starting to fall. Read more

What makes an organization successful? Innovation may be an easy answer. Read more

Staff retention in the corporate workplace is essential; losing top talent is costly, detrimental to the chances of a company reaching its business goals, and likely to result in losing ground to competitors, particularly if that is where ex-employees are headed. Read more

“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.” Read more

Yes, even if it's really not. Read more

I'm not sure who lost more of its "collective shit" last week -- the Internet or the news media itself. First came the animals, a Buzzfeed classic on runaway llamas in Arizona. Then we got the dress -- was it white and gold or blue and black? Those 24 hours Read more

Several attendees at a recent event raised the same question (almost word for word): “Our clients have tight budgets. There is more pressure than ever to save money. How do we address that issue?” This reminded me of Read more

Even entrepreneurs suffer from the occasional Monday morning dread. These simple, science-backed hacks can help make every day bearable and even fun. Read more

With 32,000 more emails just 'found,' IRS still has some explaining to do, particularly given the report that no one asked to recover them. This tax season, taxpayers everywhere are wondering how they would fare if they responded to an audit in this way. Read more

From a humble Kickstarter campaign just two years ago to a game-changing Super Bowl ad to a girl-powered Thanksgiving parade float, GoldieBlox founder Debbie Sterling is disrupting the pink toy aisle. Read more

It is important to see that self-promotion is a leadership skill. It is your responsibility to talk about what you and your team have achieved, not only for your own benefit, but also for the team and the company. It's how to create influence. It's how you sell your ideas Read more

Federico Florez Gutierrez is the Chief Information and Innovation Officer, and he is also the Global Purchasing Chairman at Ferrovial, an $8 billion Spanish company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of transport and commercial infrastructures. In his current role he is responsible for IT, innovation, and Read more

It was yet another record year for women on the new FORBES list of the World's Billionaires. Of a total 1,826 billionaires, 197 are women, up from 172 in 2014. That's a nice gain, but women still account for just a small percentage of the list -- 11% of the Read more

The customer's at the center of the customer's universe A customer wants to feel that they're at the center of your (the service provider's) world. Customers are, after all, already at the center of their own world, their own reality. All that matters to the customer is the customer and Read more