Tag Archives: Earned

What Is It With Chicago Blackhawks And Horse Racing?

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Depending on the outcome of Saturday’s fifth race at Santa Anita Park, Blackhawks’ coach Joel Quenneville might get a chance to dream about adding a Kentucky Derby trophy to his collection of Stanley...
    






What Is It With Chicago Blackhawks And Horse Racing?

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Depending on the outcome of Saturday’s fifth race at Santa Anita Park, Blackhawks’ coach Joel Quenneville might get a chance to dream about adding a Kentucky Derby trophy to his collection of Stanley...
    






Lessons From Vanderbilt And Rockefeller: Know Your "One Big Thing"

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With all of the media coverage about Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, it’s easy to forget that many of the gutsiest moves in business history happened long before Bill Gates...
    






14 Things To Do On A Slow Day At Work

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14 Things To Do On A Slow Day At Work Downtime is a rare in most workplaces — but there’s a good chance you’ll experience a slow day every once in a while. (If you’re reading this at work, you...
    






NFL Divisional Playoff Round Facts And Figures

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This weekend is the NFL Divisional playoff round. It’s the best weekend of NFL football of the season, with the big-dog top seeds playing the plucky survivors of the Wild Card weekend. Before we...
    






Innovation Knocks, But At The Back Door Of The Farmhouse: Giannola Nonino And The Transformation Of Grappa

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It was the mid-1970s in northern Italy, and Giannola Nonino had a business idea that would revolutionize an industry: to transform the ragged, industrialized distillation of grappa production into...
    






11 Reasons 2014 Will Be A Break-Out Year For Women Entrepreneurs

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While women in the upper echelons of corporate America are singing the same old  tune, “Still No Progress After Years of No Progress,” female entrepreneurs have something to rejoice about it. The...
    






The Ignorance Of Today’s College Students Shouldn’t Surprise Us

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By Blaine McCormick & Burton Folsom What did our students learn during this holiday break between college semesters?  Once finals were over, many probably went to see a movie or took a trip with...
    






Vin Gupta’s InfoFree.com Reinvents CRM and Lead Gen Tools For Small Business

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A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape:  Vinod Gupta, Founder and CEO, InfoFree.com… Legendary pioneer of database marketing and lead generation...
    






Ford’s Alan Mulally Stomps On Microsoft Speculation – And Not A Moment Too Soon

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Ford Motor Chief Executive Alan Mulally finally got the message that the incessant speculation about him departing to become CEO of Microsoft was hurting the automaker. And so he delivered his own...