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Birth Order Could Determine How Successful You Are
New research claims firstborns are more motivated to learn, while secondborns are more motivated to win, reports Rachel Lowry of Deseret News:"The study, published in the Journal of Research in...
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SHERYL SANDBERG: Women Need To Get More Comfortable With Power
Sheryl Sandberg has quickly become an icon in the debate over women in the workplace.At Business Insider's IGNITION conference last year, she said that the most important career decision women make is...
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Why People Love Working For Big Pharmaceutical Companies
When Elizabeth Lim decided that she wanted to become a pharmacist, she was aware that there was some negative public perception about the industry."Even in the classrooms ... a lot of our professors...
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7 Companies That Changed Names To Save Their Brand
When Research In Motion unveiled its long-delayed BlackBerry 10, it also announced it was changing its name to BlackBerry. CEO Thorsten Heins argued that the new name reflects how the company had...
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Why You Should Run Your Family Like A Business
Businesses don't have much of the sort of yelling and chaos that is sometimes seen in families, especially those with young children.In a piece at The Wall Street Journal, Bruce Feiler describes the...
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Ask Employees To Imagine Their Future Selves
Hope -- the belief that things could be better and that you can make them better -- can help companies prosper, says Shane J. Lopez, Ph.D., professor of the practice at the University of Kansas School...
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THE 2013 SILICON VALLEY 100: People Who Have Achieved Incredible Things In Tech
2012 was a huge year for Silicon Valley. Facebook went public, Marissa Mayer joined Yahoo, laws changed to foster new industries, enterprise startups got hot, and billion-dollar companies were formed...
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The Mysterious King Of IKEA Is Crafting His Legacy
Worldcrunch is a new global news service that for the first time delivers the best foreign-language journalism in English.SWEDEN – Sagas are epic tales full of symbolic details, and the IKEA saga is no...
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The Best Companies For Senior Women To Work For Right Now
Woman make up half of the workforce, yet only 4.2 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are female. That's a shocking percentage when you also consider that there are more women than men graduating from...
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The Most Productive People View Fear The Way Other People View Lunch
Some people get more done than others--a lot more.Sure, they work hard. And they work smart. But they possess other qualities that make a major impact on their performance.They do the work in spite of...
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How Birth Date Affects Future Success
Malcolm Gladwell points out in his book "Outliers" that older students and athletes perform better than their younger peers in school and sports because they have a distinct maturity advantage.Now...
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The Least Effective Bosses Don't Bother To Train People
One of the biggest reasons employees leave their jobs is because of a problem with their immediate boss. It's not necessarily because their boss is abrasive or unpleasant. More often, it's because they...
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If You Want A Profitable Business, You Need To 'Fire The Wrong Customers'
The key to dominating your industry is knowing exactly who the right customers are for your business. In his book “Exceptionalize It!” Lior Arussy says that the time that you're spending with the wrong...
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CLAY CHRISTENSEN: Higher Education Is 'On The Edge Of The Crevasse'
Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen is the father of the idea of "disruption" as we currently understand it, that smaller, weaker, but more innovative companies break into the low end...
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When Are You Really Going To Be Too Old To Work?
At 85, the pope has reached the conclusion that he no longer has the strength of body or mind to continue. His predicament is not unusual: we live in a time when we are less likely than ever before to...
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Toys 'R' Us CEO Gerald Storch Is Stepping Down
Toys 'R' Us CEO Gerald Storch is stepping down from his post, the company announced.He will remain chairman and the company will be starting its search for a new chief.Storch is staying at the helm...
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Why We Use Social Media To Try To Fit In
We are a species that depend on one another. Scientists theorize humans have specially adapted neurons that help us feel what others feel, providing evidence that we survive through our empathy for...
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'Lean Analytics' Can Help Build Better Startups Faster
Ben is currently VP Product at GoInstant, a venture-backed startup focused on changing how we share and experience the web with co-browsing technology. GoInstant was recently acquired by...
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How I Raised $3 Million For My Startup In 13 Days
While most of you were watching re-runs of Miracle On 34th St over the holidays, my partners and I were fundraising.In thirteen days we raised three million dollars. Sound like a fairy tale? That’s...
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How HJ Heinz Turned His Bankrupt Horseradish Business Into A Billion Dollar...
Earlier, today Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway announced it and 3G Capital would acquire HJ Heinz Company in a transaction worth a whopping $28 billion.HJ Heinz, the son of immigrant parents, built...
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