Noise is worse for you than you think.

A few years ago, Stephen B. Goldberg was asked to serve as a facilitator for and adviser to a corporate team from a telecommunications firm that was preparing to negotiate with five other telecom companies on the division of radio spectrum for cellular telephone relay satellites.

Chris Kluwe wants to look into the future of sports and think about how technology will help not just players and coaches, but fans. Here the former NFL punter envisions a future in which augmented reality will help people experience sports as if they are directly on the field -- and maybe even help them see others in a new light, too.

The amount of data confronting Chief Marketing Officers is enormous and, according to Gartner, growing 40% every year. An updated IBM study shows that CMOs are feeling increasingly pressured by this deluge of data. Back in 2011, 71 percent of CMOs interviewed said they felt under-prepared to deal with that explosion. Now that proportion has grown to 82 percent. The issue is not about how to collect all that data, but what to do with it once you have it. A lack of preparedness can skew marketing's perspective on data in a number of ways that produce significant challenges.

No matter the level of the business and whether things are going great or not very well, high stress appears at least periodically for every entrepreneur, and if it’s not handled well, it can have a major impact not only on the team and the business but on the health and well being of the business owner for the rest of his or her life.