Is Clean Tech Waste Management the Road to a Sustainable Future?
By Kat de Naoum For Thomas Insights As a potential solution to the undeniable mass waste problem around the world, a few dedicated cleantech companies created innovative, trash-sorting robots. As great as this sounds, however, this fledgling tech solution is not likely to fully get off the ground without investment [...]
Visa Launches Digital Platform For Azerbaijani Businesswomen Jointly With Emerging Europe.
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 10. Visa launched the She's Next digital community platform for women entrepreneurs from Eastern and South Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, created in partnership with Emerging Europe, an authoritative business and community development platform focused on the region, the Baku office of Visa [...]
Why Inclusive Leaders Are Good for Organizations, and How to Become One
by Juliet Bourke and Andrea Titus For Harvard Business Review Photo: Richard Drury/Getty Images Summary. Companies increasingly rely on diverse, multidisciplinary teams that combine the collective capabilities of women and men, people of different cultural heritage, and younger and older workers. But simply throwing a mix of people together doesn’t guarantee [...]
From Tennis Pro to Chief Product Officer: Why Female Athletes Make Great Business Leaders
BY LOUISE K. ALLEN, CPO, PLANVIEW For Inc. Photo: Getty Images (Note-95% of IWEC's awardees played sports and still do! Playing ports helps you understand the workings of teams, risk taking and leadership among other skills.) It's no secret that women have historically faced an uphill battle to secure corporate leadership [...]
OpenAI Releases ChatGPT for Enterprises
Here's What It Could Do for Your Business. Small-business owners will soon be able to integrate the natural-language interface directly into their business operations BY BEN SHERRY, STAFF REPORTER@BENLUCASSHERRY For Inc. https://tinyurl.com/bdf7mwkk Photo: Getty Images ChatGPT is going B2B. OpenAI has released ChatGPT Enterprise, the most powerful version of its chatbot [...]
Setting Expectations in Your Leadership Team
A leadership team without well-defined expectations can lead to discord and inefficiency. BY DAVID FINKEL, CO-AUTHOR OF 'SCALE: SEVEN PROVEN PRINCIPLES TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS AND GET YOUR LIFE BACK'@DAVIDFINKEL For Inc. Photo: Getty Images Putting together a solid leadership team for your business is a big milestone for any small-business [...]
Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive
by Harvard Business Review Too many companies bet on having a cut-throat, high-pressure, take-no-prisoners culture to drive their financial success. But a large and growing body of research on positive organizational psychology demonstrates that not only is a cut-throat environment harmful to productivity over time, but that a positive environment [...]
Why the Return-to-Office Push From Businesses Is Losing Steam
BY ALI DONALDSON, STAFF REPORTER@ALICDONALDSON For Inc. The return-to-office push is losing steam. The share of U.S. businesses requiring their employees to work in the office five days a week fell to 39 percent in July, down from 42 percent in April and 49 percent in January. That's according to new data [...]
Eight Ways To Make Your ‘Woman-Owned’ Business A Powerful Part Of Your Brand Identity
By Expert Panel Forbes Councils Member YEC Women COUNCIL POST| Membership (Fee-Based) For Forbes Image by Getty When you start a business as a female entrepreneur, one of your greatest assets is the fact that you are a woman-owned business. Statistics have shown that nearly a third of the general population [...]
Emotionally Intelligent People Do This to Make a Great First Impression. Most People Do the Opposite.
BY MINDA ZETLIN, AUTHOR OF 'CAREER SELF-CARE: FIND YOUR HAPPINESS, SUCCESS, AND FULFILLMENT AT WORK'@MINDAZETLIN For Inc. Photo: Getty Images What's the smartest way to make a great first impression when you meet a customer, investor, or anyone else? Ask them for advice. It may be counterintuitive, but asking for advice will make you [...]