It may have been a while since you cracked open a communication theory book, and it's understandable. As a small-business owner, you've been busy dealing with customers, managing employees and trying ...

In a video from the early 1950s, Bell Labs scientist Claude Shannon demonstrates one of his new inventions: a toy mouse named Theseus that looks like it could be a wind-up. The gaunt Shannon, looking ...

You don't have to be the one to break the news to the millennials on your staff. It will only make them grumpy. They may think that they invented the field of mass communication through their love of ...

Science seeks the basic laws of nature. Mathematics searches for new theorems to build upon the old. Engineering builds systems to solve human needs. The three disciplines are interdependent but ...

Max Weber, a German sociologist, argued that bureaucracy was the most efficient model for private businesses and public offices. His theories influenced generations of business leaders and politicians ...