If the trends of the past 30 years had continued, America would have seen a million more entrepreneurs over the last decade than it did. So why didn't it?

Welcome to my regular series My Light Bulb Moment. This column highlights a blinding flash of insight business, cultural and sports leaders have experienced and how it changed their lives.

Though it's fine to suggest career choices, it's wrong to impose them, especially your own unfulfilled career dreams.

Dr Juliet Newson's job as a geothermal reservoir modelling engineer at Contact Energy has her harnessing computer power to visualise the underground steam resources of the Wairakei area.

Successful people don't put things off. Instead, as much as possible they finish what they've started.

Maybe you buy a Lotto ticket, have a flutter on the horses or even try your luck at the blackjack table, but would you gamble your salary?

Businesses have lifted their expectations for inflation, sapping immediate pressure on the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates.

The era of the overeducated barista in America is coming to a close.

We need to think of not for profit board seats as a deep responsibility and a job that requires due care and attention.

The rising trend of intelligent machines replacing human workers is contributing to a scarcity of jobs.

Employers are adding online personality tests to their screening processes to gauge candidates work ethic.

Job listings in the design and architecture industry have surged 49 per cent in the past year.

There can be some negative impacts of transformation projects - here are some ways to cope.

A man who was dismissed from his job after his legs were crushed by a car in a freak accident wants to take his former employer to court again.

Workplace climate is driven by individual leaders and managers Robyn Pearce says.

You've been in your IT job for a while now and are starting to feel a bit, well, stale. Aware that you're a good "people person" you'd really like to move into communications.

A new 60ha business park in Silverdale north could mean people who live around the Millwater/Orewa area won't need to travel on clogged motorways to get to their jobs.

Karla L. Miller answers a reader question about how to deal with a boss and his interpreter.

Angela Ahrendts, Apple's senior vice president of retail and online stores, was the highest-paid female executive in the US last year.

Employment grew strongly in the first three months of the year but labour force growth was stronger still, keeping wage inflation subdued and raising the odds of an interest rate cut.

Married-couple, child-rearing families with male sole-breadwinners are five times more prevalent than those with female sole-breadwinners.

When John Key decided to become acquainted (repeatedly) with a Parnell waitress' ponytail, he surely had little idea of the international furore that would ensue.

Karla L. Miller gives advice to a reader on how to handle undeserved blame in the workplace.

New US government data tells us which industries' employees drink the most and which do the most drugs.

The area of organisational creativity has experienced a large increase over the past 30 years.

Celebrations are planned this evening after McDonald's and Unite Union reached an agreement to end "zero hour" contracts.

Unfinished business has kept Xero co-founder Hamish Edwards from slipping into complete retirement.

Time management expert Robyn Pearce looks at the 'in-timers' and says it's important to get ready first.