Getting the Hang of Google+
Getting started with webinars, videoconferencing and news conferences has never been easier. A Google+ account offers free features that business owners need to know about: Hangouts and Hangouts On Air. These are videoconferencing applications. Hangouts, usually private conversations, are like a group video call on Skype, perfect for a team of telecommuters. Hangouts On Air, […]
Hang Up to Relax
A Kent State University study has found that students who were heavy cellphone users tended to be more anxious, have lower grade-point averages and a reduced feelings of happiness. Researchers surveyed more than 500 students who allowed them to match their grade point averages with their levels of phone use. The researchers also took a […]
Lower Your Risk of Dementia
A 35-year study has shown that people who had four of five healthy habits were 60 percent less likely to develop dementia and cognitive decline. The habits are: exercising regularly, not smoking, maintaining a healthy body weight and diet, and consuming a low level of alcohol. The study reinforced previous research on healthy lifestyles, which […]
SUCCESS Foundation: “Little Things Matter”
Teenagers often repeated the phrase “little things matter” during last summer’s Upward Bound Math & Science program at Claflin University in Orangeburg, S.C. They heard those empowering words through the SUCCESS Foundation-funded SUCCESS for Teens program, which is designed to help kids set and reach goals and resist negative influences in their lives. In fact, “Little […]
Test Yourself: What Is Your Entrepreneur Quotient?
You’ve heard it before: Successful entrepreneurs are driven, outgoing, confident, assertive, resilient. That doesn’t mean a shy person can’t run a successful startup. But most entrepreneurs share common traits. We’ve compiled a totally unscientific quiz to help you determine your entrepreneur quotient—or at least to prompt a chuckle. 1. Who is your mentor? a. Charlie […]
SUCCESS Foundation: Goal-Driven
Taekwondo master Rich Brugger, a fourth-degree black belt, thinks of the martial arts as part of a journey toward self-improvement. He’s always seeking ways to help his students achieve goals, a quest that led him to the SUCCESS for Teens program funded through the SUCCESS Foundation. He first learned about SUCCESS for Teens through one […]
Music for the Brain
If you remember having to practice scales when other children were outside playing ball, here’s a consolation: Grown-up child musicians showed quicker response to sound, which helps them interpret speech as adults. At Northwestern University’s Auditory Neuroscience Lab, numerous studies have shown a link between early music education and language aptitude, hearing and learning ability, […]
SUCCESS Foundation: Music with a Message
Listening to Above Seclusion’s “Spider-Man,” I’m humming along. In a video, the percussion is throbbing; the five band members are jumping, gyrating, strutting. They harmonize. They play guitar solos. And they bring incredible energy onstage. To describe Above Seclusion as a teenage alt-rock band does not do the group justice. The musicians rehearse roughly every […]
How an Entrepreneur Brought Employee Training to the Cloud
Adam Miller is passionate about education. For one thing, he holds four university degrees and Certified Public Accountant credentials. For another, the original purpose the company he founded in 1999 was to centralize the world’s online training for adults into one place. That company, Cornerstone OnDemand, is now one of the world’s largest cloud-based service […]
Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth—But What About a Prospect?
Book after book about sales agrees: Direct eye contact is best. But new research tells us that if you look someone who disagrees with you straight in the eyes, your efforts to persuade may fail. Frances Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, co-led the research. She says if the […]
3 Tax Mistakes to Avoid
For William Cummings, who was chief financial officer of a major company, it was an aha moment. The company he worked for had far more revenue than he had income, but the organization paid less in taxes than he did individually. That discrepancy led him into the business of providing tax planning for small businesses, […]
SUCCESS Foundation: Program for Prisoners
Young inmates at Lancaster Correctional Institution in Trenton, Fla., are learning to redefine success. Before their classes at the facility, they might have thought that succeeding in life meant owning a fancy house, a Bentley, a BMW. Afterward, many view success as putting in a full workday and supporting a family. The SUCCESS for Teens […]