Rick Smith

  Entremanure (n.) - someone who generates really shitty new company ideas. In the fall of 2003, I began toying with the idea of creating a group of top-executive networks. Launched in early 2004, World 50 is now regarded as one of the most influential executive forums in the world ...

Successful leaders in both the public and private sector will tell you that what you do in your first 100 days in a new role has a major impact on the success of your entire tenure, and no period is more important than your first week. No matter what your ...

  Falling revenue, profits, salaries and bonuses, and forced participation in the layoff lottery have all certainly spiced up the workplace lately. But if your current frustration is dwarfed by your necessity to cling to your present paycheck, here are a few things you may wish to avoid:     1) The Talker Stalker - ...

Today, Barack Obama's inauguration certainly marks a historic moment. No matter what your political affiliation, it is a triumph for civil rights and a testimony to the great democratic system in which we live. But the lasting message of Obama's dramatic and unlikely rise to the Presidency I believe is ...

The 21st Century has ushered in amazing new social media applications. But with equal access to these powerful tools granted across the entire Bell curve of intelligences, it sometimes seems as if we have handed out machine guns to chimpanzees! Here are a few new rules for the road: 1) Do ...

It is a simple but cruel irony of life that as soon as you think you have things figured out, the rules change. We enter the world and are quickly presented with a simple rule of success -- More! Acquire more words. More food. More toys. Take more classes. Earn more ...