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8 Ways To Be Insanely Productive For A Day
Teaching others to improve their personal productivity is big business: Tony Robbins, Stephen Covey, David Allen... they and others have turned improving individual productivity into a massive...
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KOFI ANNAN: There's A Huge Market Of Eager Consumers That Most Companies Ignore
Retailers are missing out on a key demographic and trillions of dollars by not catering more to Third World countries, according to Nobel Prize-winning diplomat Kofi Annan. "People at the bottom...
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6 Questions That Reveal What A Company's Culture Is Really Like
Perhaps the most common question I am asked by candidates in interviews is “What’s the culture like here?” And I understand why. Accepting a job offer after a few interviews sometimes feels like...
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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Repeatedly Blasts Congress For Being...
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz blasted Congress and called for action in a keynote interview at the National Retail Federation's convention in New York City."I think there is a greater threat than what...
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7 Tricks To Waking Up Earlier
Not only does the early bird get the worm, he's generally happier and has a higher overall satisfaction with his life."We don’t know why this is, but there are a few potential explanations. Evening...
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HOWARD SCHULTZ: 'We Are Witness To A Seismic Change In Consumer Behavior'
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz spoke in a keynote interview at the National Retail Federation's convention in New York City and he had some insights about the future of retail and the potential for...
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How Robots Could Change The World By 2023
Robotic technology has taken historic strides in the past decade. Nanorobotics is changing how scientists, doctors and surgeons think about the future of medicine. UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) have...
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This Russian Coffee Shop Has Turned Starbucks' Business Model On Its Head
How should a cafe price? After all, most users are actually consuming multiple things at a coffeehouse.Yes, they are getting a jolt of caffeine and maybe a muffin, but they are also consuming a meeting...
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The 4 Types Of Executives Who Use Their Time Badly
Top executives are known to, and are often expected to work incredible hours. They wake up incredibly early, stay late, and work weekends.However, a new McKinsey study finds that only 9 percent are...
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Online Startup Plans To Create 'Ivy Caliber' Education For Half The Price
There's a massive problem in higher education. The number of people qualified to attend the world's best universities who don't get the chance to do so is growing. At the same time, the cost of...
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Yammer, Microsoft's 'Golden Egg,' Has Moved Into A Gorgeous New Headquarters...
On Monday, Yammer, the enterprise-collaboration startup Microsoft bought for $1.2 billion last year, moved from its longtime home in San Francisco's SoMa district to a new headquarters in 1355 Market,...
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This Cisco Exec Has A 'Blank Check' To Acquire Security Startups (CSCO)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - After failing to land a big acquisition in the security space last year and suffering a steady decline in market share, Cisco Systems Chief Executive John Chambers is determined to...
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Fab Discounted Itself To Get A $600 Million Valuation In The Wake Of The...
In July, Fab, the online high-design goods store, raised a $116 million Series C round at a $600 million valuation.Like its shoppers, its investors got a really good deal: Fab had initially planned to...
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There's A Simple Way For Stores To Insantly Improve Customer Service
Today's educated consumer demands an educated associate. But many retailers fail to focus on the quality of their associates and allocate too many resources to branding, said Shannon Warner of...
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Sitting For 9 Hours A Day Is Nearly A Lethal Activity
I find myself, probably like many of you, spending way too much time in front of my computer.When I do face-to-face meetings, my colleagues and I typically met around some conference table, sometimes...
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How I Made A Huge Career Switch Right Before I Turned 40
I was a West-Coast Carrie Bradshaw … sans Mr. Big.You wouldn’t expect it from my childhood: I’d grown up poor in Iowa, and I watched my mother struggle to work full-time and raise six kids on her own,...
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Why Programmers Work At Night
A popular saying goes that programmers are machines that turn caffeine into code.And sure enough, ask a random programmer when they do their best work and there’s a high chance they will admit to a lot...
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ALCOA CEO: Government Restrictions Can Drive Innovation
At a Brookings Institute panel today on fostering growth through innovation, Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld made a point you don't hear that often from top executives.Usually, regulation is regarded by...
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This Chinese Team Building Exercise Has To Be Seen To Be Believed
This video surfaced on the "China" sub-Reddit earlier today, and frankly it has to be seen to be believed.Though we don't have too much idea where the video comes from, it appears to be some kind of...
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Walmart Thinks Veterans Make Such Great Workers That It Plans To Hire 100,000...
Veterans make great employees after their deployment ends, according to a Walmart senior executive. "Veterans are great employees because of the qualities they learn in training," Simon said in a...
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