The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves..

Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hi….

The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so….

The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovati….

Everyone knows that exercise can improve your health. Exercise is a key part of managing your weight and maintaining healthy hearts, lungs, and other….

Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know that are running after people with….

The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column ….

From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer t….

America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but lon….

The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of auton….

There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious ….

I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to ….

I've seen people spend days, if not months, researching and gathering data, but only at the end did they finally figure out what they were really loo….

Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals..

We can't count on the Fed to inject this level of liquidity that we saw last year..

You have various institutions like law firms and accounting firms which bill by the hour. I'm really against that. You have an incentive to go slowly….

I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young..

Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not cri….

Routinize the routine. The things that aren't important to you, whether it's breakfast or your commute, try to do them with the least energy possible….

It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so yo….

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? Aft….