If You Want Employees To Go Above And Beyond They Need To Feel Fulfilled
The days of lifetime employment at a single company are long gone, so business leaders today need to make an extra effort to retain talent and foster employee loyalty.Loyal employees are the heart of...
View ArticleRon Johnson Shares His Single Biggest Surprise Since Taking Over JCPenney (JCP)
JCPenney CEO and former Apple retail boss Ron Johnson spoke at the Women's Wear Daily CEO Summit this week.He talked a bit about what surprised him since leaving his gig at Apple to take the helm of...
View ArticleBUSINESS INSIDER SECRETS REVEALED!
A couple of years ago, I revealed a lot of internal information about Business Insider--the sort of information that most companies paranoically guard for a litany of stated reasons.I said that, if...
View ArticleNobel Laureate Says There's A Better Way To Make Hiring Decisions
Most hiring decisions come down to a gut decision.According to Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, however, this process is extremely flawed and there's a much better way.Kahneman learned in his days as a...
View ArticleRight Now Is The Best Time To Work At A Small Company
Giant companies like Google and Goldman Sachs get a lot of attention for their killer perks and elite status culture for workers. But if you're focused on moving your way up the income ladder quickly,...
View ArticleGM's CEO Wants Cadillac To Compete On The Global Level
Dan Akerson has high hopes for the newly resurgent Cadillac, the General Motors CEO told the Wall Street Journal in an interview discussing the economy and the future of the auto industry."I would like...
View ArticleHiring Perfectionists Creates Big Hidden Risks
Perfectionism is something we tend to glorify and look for in employees and businesses. However, it can have some unintended consequences.In a new book, "Uncommon Service," Anne Morriss and Harvard...
View ArticleWe Don't Know What Facebook Is Unveiling Next Week, But It Could Be Its Big...
Facebook has announced a surprise media event on January 15 that has everyone guessing.The invitation said simply: "See what we're building."The word "building" made some gadget hounds speculate about...
View ArticleHere Are The Jobs With The Biggest Wage Growth Right Now
Those in the creative field still have a chance to make a living doing what they love.According to a wage index released today by Payscale, media and publishing jobs experienced the largest annual...
View ArticleHow To Avoid The 'Vanity Work' Trap
If you’re in the business of dealing with web and social media metrics or are familiar with entrepreneur and The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, you probably know about vanity metrics.Basically, these...
View ArticleIt May Take Mandatory Quotas To Finally Put Women in Charge
Statistics show a grim future for females looking to stay on top at America's most successful companies. Although past generations may have envisioned 2013 as a better and brighter future for women,...
View ArticleThe Most Probable And Damaging Big Business Risks Over The Next Decade
The World Economic Forum surveys a range of global experts to find out their biggest fears for its yearly Global Risks report.Coming into 2013, those experts feel that a number of big economic risks...
View Article4 Strategies For Selling To A CEO
Here's the bad news. You know all that "consultative selling" stuff that you've heard about? It doesn't work with CEOs.Here's the good news. If you're selling something worthy of the attention of a top...
View Article8 Outrageous CEO Perks
From among the most generous CEO perks, 24/7 Wall St. has picked several of the most extravagant ones.Please follow War Room on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »
View ArticleWhere The Paychecks Are Getting Bigger
Rapid growth in mobile technology has made engineers highly valuable workers. But aside fom the tech industry, a recently released Payscale Index reported that those currently working in the mining —...
View ArticleSuddenly, This Founder Has Become A Key Soldier In An $80 Billion Computing...
There's a war on for control of a hugely important market, cloud computing—and an enterpreneur you've never heard of, Boris Renski, is smack in the middle of it.Renski's startup, Mirantis, gained some...
View ArticleHow IBM Crushed Everyone Else In Patents For The 20th Straight Year
IBMannounced today that it once again led the United States in the number of patents. That's an achievement in its own right, but this is the 20th year in a row that IBM has lead the list. It wasn't...
View ArticleThe Elevator Pitch Is Dead: Here Are 6 Better Ways To Persuade
Elevator pitches, and the reams of advice about perfecting them, have been business staples for decades. In his new book, "To Sell Is Human," bestselling author Daniel Pink argues that there are two...
View ArticleThe 10 Biggest Corporate Crises Of The Year
Welcome to our second annual list of the top ten crises of the year. This was another banner year for corporate crises and scandals.1. Global Banking2012 was a particularly harsh year for global...
View ArticleThe State Of Angel Investing [Charts]
The Angel Resource Institute studied investment trends over the course of 2012 from 541 deals and $804.4 million in total rounds.It pulled together a report on the state of angel investing.Here are the...
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