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Many businesses and associations are cheering the federal judge in Texas who issued a preliminary injunction against a Department of Labor overtime rule that would have almost doubled the salary threshold for overtime pay, making many more worker...
More thoughts from the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Annual Conference going on this week in Nashville:
• The morning of Day 2 was mainly dedicated to what FICP calls The Network—Live, the business appointment piece of the program...
Opening keynote speaker and author Tom Koulopoulos made an impassioned plea for the need to break through old patterns of thought.Waiting for my flight yesterday morning at Boston’s Logan airport, I was kind of dreading going to my first Financia...
Today's guest post is by speaker and author Cyriel Kortleven.
As a professional speaker, I have the opportunity to attend a lot of events and conferences. While they all differ in scale, audience, locations, and cultures, they almost all shar...
Every election cycle comes with its own unique set of issues, challenges, gaffes, unlikeable characters, unrealistic policy statements, ugly campaign ads, truth-stretching, blunders, and general craziness, but this one has been the worst and weir...
Innovation consultant and keynote speaker Susan Robertson of Sharpen Innovation packed a lot of good tips into one half-hour session!Who would have thought that knowledge could be a curse? But when it comes to creativity, what we’ve learned along...
There was a lot of playing around with session formatting at IMEX America 2016—even more so than last year (my first experience with the massive meetings and hospitality trade show that takes place in Las Vegas each fall). When I first heard they...
Some look at this and see a fun fake thrill. I'm just seeing a big old fire hazard! Image by DarioZg on Thinkstock by Getty ImagesI may have been haunted for years by a very mischievous, very annoying poltergeist, and I will always be an ardent S...