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Zappos' Outrageous Record For The Longest Customer Service Phone Call Ever
The Zappos Customer Loyalty Team in Las Vegas, NV recently broke its company record for the longest customer service call ever.Representatives of the online retail giant are trained to help customers...
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The Double-Edged Sword Of Going Public, In Two Charts
Whether and when to go public is something that founders and investors agonize over. It brings a huge influx of capital, and a lot of riches, but puts a great deal of pressure on everybody.There's also...
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CAROL BARTZ: What I Wish I Could Tell My 30-Year-Old Self
Carol Bartz is widely-known in Silicon Valley for two things: being a high-profile executive at some of the best-known technology companies, including Sun Microsystems, Autodesk and Yahoo, and being a...
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Work Environment Is More Important For Happiness Than Time Off Or Hours Worked
For companies trying to choose between improving employee engagement and boosting workforce wellbeing, Gallup research provides good news. "Employers can improve both aspects at the same time," says...
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Going Into Business With Your Significant Other Can Lead To A Fuller, Happier...
In the past decade, more couples are going into business together than ever before.Glenn Muske, an Oklahoma State University professor who has spent six years studying the topic, estimates that 3...
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Best Buy Has Lost The 'Single Most Important Executive In The Entire Company'...
Best Buy's digital savior has left.Stephen Gillett, former digital chief at the struggling retailer, was a high-profile hire when he was whisked away from his position as the CIO of Starbucks. He now...
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Before You Take That Banking Or Consulting Job, Take A Hard Look At The...
One of the most frequent narratives I encounter in achievement-minded college seniors is a (very reasonable) plan to spend several years advancing professionally and getting trained (and paid) by an...
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Instagram's PR Disaster Shows That Businesses Can't Be Sneaky About Monetization
A huge variety of people, from celebrities to average users, went into collective uproar about the change in Instagram's terms of service, to the point where CEO Kevin Systrom made a public statement...
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5 Attributes Of A Great HR Department
Lots of talk about bad and ineffective HR. Some say that the antidote to bad HR is to create some hyper-vigilant, technology-driven department of super nerds who obsess about big data and...
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How To Get Employees To Embody Your Brand
Sometimes, employees get mixed messages about how they're expected to behave toward customers. For example, a resort that heavily promotes itself as family-friendly charges guests $3.00 for drink...
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HOORAY! THE WORLD DIDN'T END
According to modern interpretations of the ancient Mayan calendar, the world was supposed to end at this morning at 6:11 EST.Well, pinch me if I'm dreaming, but it looks like we're still here.Which...
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US Intelligence Suspects Foreign Nations Of Using Corporate Takeovers To Get...
Foreign nations may be using a "coordinated strategy" of corporate takeovers to access critical U.S. technology, according to a report highlighted by the Financial Times from the Committee On Foreign...
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Ex-Virgin Exec Shares What He Learned Working For Richard Branson
When Alexis Dormandy was hired by Virgin Group at age 24, he got to work directly with Sir Richard Branson himself.By age 26, he was running Virgin Mobile, and all of Virgin's new businesses at 28.“I...
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A First-Hand Account Of What It Was Really Like To Work For Steve Jobs (AAPL)
Guy Kawasaki knows Apple.The former Apple marketer turned Silicon Valley venture capitalist spoke with Dan Lyons of ReadWrite recently at the ReadWriteMix event series. Kawasaki's experience of working...
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There Are Two Completely Different Ways We Make Decisions
Choice, Education and Experience Decision making, the challenge of choice, is often discussed as though it’s a single, invariant type of event. Perhaps this is most strongly presented in the idea of...
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Why Anxiety Makes You A Sucker For Bad Advice
Deciding the best course of treatment for a medical condition. Figuring out the right investment plan for your retirement savings. Choosing the most desirable career path for your future. These are all...
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The Right Kind Of Effort And Learning Tasks Can Create Intelligence
This is an excerpt from an article titled “From Aptitude to Effort: A New Foundation for Our Schools,” written by Lauren B. Resnick, director of the Institute for Learning at the University of...
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Why You Should Fire Some Clients As The Year Winds Down
Straight up: Some clients suck. With 2012 winding down, now's the time to give your company's health (and your sanity) a boost by cutting the duds from your client list. "When you work for yourself,...
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