The Millennial generation, also called generation Y, is the demographic cohort following generation X. While no precise date marks the start of this generation, commentators generally define its members as people in their twenties and early thirties. This group includes 77 million young Americans, rivaling the baby boomers in size and impact. Their biases, inclinations and attitudes have the potential to greatly influence philanthropy, money management and society generally.

There are 542 words that will start to impact the business world very soon. These are the 542 dictionary words applied for as generic top level domain from the Internet Authority as gTLDs at an average cost of $1 million dollars each. What will these dictionary words achieve as global gatekeepers of cyber name identities, what power will they exert on new and established brands and who will be the new winners or losers in these global races? Which dictionary words will win gold, silver or bronze medal as top level domain names and why? Each one of the 542 proposed dictionary word top level domains will be analyzed and categorized. Check the list of 542 names www.azna.com.

Boards of directors have two indisputable responsibilities: first, ensure transparency in financial reporting, executive compensation, and corporate governance; and second, manage CEO succession, including the duty to fire a failing chief executive, and recruit a successor who can lead the company through a successful transition.

I want to wish everyone a happy 2013 filled with joy, peace and prosperity. And how can an investor prosper in 2013? Let’s look at the past year: 2012 was rife with worries and tail risks ranging from the break-up of the Euro Zone, a hard landing in China and the encroaching U.S. fiscal cliff. Even so, the markets showed solid performance: global equities were up more than 14 percent, bonds gained 5 percent and commodities rose only 1 percent. While it was a great year, it appears that many investors missed out on the market rally.

According to the World Bank report of 2010, Chinese people saved the most that year by putting away 38 percent of their earnings as savings. The reason given is China has no national safety net. India came in second at 34.7 percent due to their accelerated Gross Domestic Product growth, followed by Turkey (19.5 percent), Switzerland (14.3 percent), Ireland (12.3 percent), Britain (7 percent), Brazil (6.8 percent), the United States (3.9 percent), Japan (2.8 percent) and Australia at 2.5 percent. Take note that the United States is not in the last place, whereas, Japan’s past stellar habits of 15 percent or more savings have taken a hard beating after two “lost decades” with stagflation (Stagnation + Deflation) and near zero interest rates to dig the economy out from a deep hole (sounds familiar).

Major change is a double-edged sword. Even when people know that it's necessary to do things differently because of new opportunities, mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, crises or alliances, resistance is commonplace. The biggest challenge of leading through resistance, however, can be recognizing its various disguises.

Whether you are the employee or the employer, it is important you are the shepherd and not the sheep in your organization. Our research has shown how companies with a strong leadership system have distinctive competitive advantages by building unique and enviable cultures that stimulate creative thinking, constantly generate new ideas, motivate high performance, and consistently delight customers. 

It's time to put a great team around you — people who are committed to you, care about you, like you, appreciate what you're all about, and understand how to do what needs to be done.  You deserve to have first-rate experts to help you build and protect your brand.

Over the next decade, many small business owners of the baby-boomer generation are poised to retire, aiming to either sell or transfer their estimated 4.5 million private enterprises to the next generation.  While this “changing of the guard” may have the initial appearance of fiscal evolution, in reality it has the potential to create a $6 trillion crisis that, without corrective action, could cripple our economy. 

After years of “estrangement,” the United States and India have transformed their relationship at a breathtaking pace since 1998, and grown it into a wide-ranging strategic partnership. The speed and scope of these changes initially led to highly positive reviews of India and its potential contributions to American interests by U.S. commentators, gushing with praise for this “natural ally.” Yet more recently, as substantive accomplishments have failed to materialize, criticism has begun in the U.S., directed towards India, accused of not doing enough, of not stepping up to the plate. 

With the exception of a very small percentage, by and large most branded empires with single or dozens of brand name identities are now feeling the intense heat all over the world. The slow combustion, smoke and pending flames are inevitable. One side the power of their name brands is weakening and on other future of name identity trajectory looks fuzzy. The main reason of all this, once in a century happening is definitely not due to ICANN or their snail pace gTLD dot name crawl. It's actually the overnight global shift of image and branding medium where light speed digitization changed the game. Actually, the real percolation started over a decade ago, it's now the aroma that just started to fill the corporate corridors.