In childhood and adult relationships, love is shown with the five A's: attention, affection, appreciation, acceptance, and ...

Do you truly understand the difference between needs and wants? Unlike needs, wants are not absolutely necessary, but you should work both into your budget.

Last week, I took creative license with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and shared a version I refer to as The Customer Hierarchy of Needs. When customers buy from a company or brand, their primary need ...

Ruchi Kulhari is a senior VP, Human Resources, at CoForge. She has over 20 years of expertise in HR strategy, implementation and metrics. As leaders, we want to support our employees at every stage of ...

Consider basic survival needs like water, air, food, and shelter. Meeting these physical needs means you can stay alive, but it takes more to give life meaning. You can’t see or touch things like ...

Strategies for identifying customer needs are an integral element of a company's marketing program. Understanding customer needs helps refine product development projects, marketing communication ...

A "need" is something you have to have, a necessity. We all need food, shelter, clothes and other basics. A "want" is something you would like to have, but don't really need. Try explaining that to a ...

When you’re building a budget, one of the first pieces of advice experts will give is to divide your expenses into your “wants” and “needs” and base your spending on certain percentages of each. But ...

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a model for understanding the motivations for human behavior. These include physiological needs, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. The ...

Like it or not, you have needs. We all do. We would hardly be human if we didn't. In my work, I am often surprised by how many people—both men and women—either try to deny their needs or don't know ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...