“We all have people with whom we have to work to get things done. Our ability to communicate with clients, customers, subordinates, peers, and superiors can enhance our effectiveness or sabotage us. Many times, our verbal skills make the difference. Here are 10 ways to increase your verbal efficacy at work…”

Here’s a fun one: “In a piece for The Rake Magazine, Greg Beato pays homage to Minneapolis’s greatest invention, and celebrates 25 years of Post Its. All this buzz around the blogosphere inspired me to highlight a couple of my favorite instances in which Post-Its had their moment in the limelight.”

“Five years ago this week Britain’s dotcom dream died, killed off by a Swedish poetry critic and a former Vogue model, as fashion ‘e-tailer’ Boo.com became the country’s first high-profile internet collapse.”

“If your motives are purely financial, chances are you will make far more money by starting and growing a single company. Bill Gates and Paul Allen, two of the world’s richest men, made the vast majority of their money from Microsoft. Sam Walton, whose heirs have a net worth that exceeds $100 billion, created that wealth with Wal-Mart. But if you are motivated most by seeing your mental creations come into existence and gain lives of their own, then serial or parallel entrepreneuring may be for you.”