Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

There’s a moment in every early founder’s life when you walk out of a pitch meeting replaying every sentence you said. You can feel when the energy shifts. One misplaced question, one sign of ...

If you run a business, your day is likely to include some type of meeting, whether it's with your senior management, an employee, a vendor or a client. The truth is, however, is that you probably have ...

My sales calls involve fact-finding and presenting information to groups and committees of about five or six people. After significant preparation for my last two calls, only half of the participants ...

ACS national meetings are well organized and successful. However, the society’s Committee on Meetings & Expositions (M&E) is always striving to make them even better and relies on member input to meet ...

Do you like the daily sudoku puzzle or the word scramble in the paper? Are you the one who takes on the new project at work just for a good challenge? When there’s a get-together for singing at your ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Caroline Castrillon covers career, entrepreneurship and women at work. Meeting overload occurs when employees spend excessive time ...