The Helm

Difficult but productive people are not easy to manage, but managers can get the best out of them by following these smart tips.

The innovation arms race is the race to be the most innovative company in the world. The cost of entry and the invisible risk is high.

Real business leaders, in their own words. Submit your stories and lessons from the front lines of entrepreneurship to The Helm.

Thinking is comprised of multiple skills that can be learned and practiced. And, like any skill, the more we use it, the better we get at…

I’ll admit it. I was a hustler. Back in the early-Internet ’90s, I ran my first business — a mail-in matchmaking company called iFluRtz —…

Picture this: a group of highly skilled people on the cutting edge of agricultural science locked in a room for a week straight. But…

I co-founded my business in a stuffy townhouse packed with people and computers, we were driven by a hardcore sense of purpose — to use…

Picture this. It’s 1999, the height of the dotcom boom, and I’m a college kid getting investment tips from the earliest forums on the…

Getting to where I am now, running several successful businesses, was not exactly what I would consider ‘smooth sailing.’

Honest question: Is another app-based guided meditation enough to get your employees through the difficult winter months ahead?

A smartwatch that detects falls or strokes in seniors. Blockchain applications that increase birth registration rates in developing…

Chattanooga? When my daughter told me recently she’d be leaving a remote role in sunny Santa Barbara for a new job in Tennessee, it caught…