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Don't Wait For Your Boss To Tell You What To Do

Sometimes you just need to go do something awesome. You need to burn the ships. Puff your chest out against an angry enemy.You don’t need an excuse, an explanation, or permission. You just need to go...

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Bill Clinton Once Gave Some Whip-Smart Advice To Shai Agassi

LinkedIn's latest collection of posts from its "Influencers" focuses the best piece of advice they had ever received. For Shai Agassi, the founder and former CEO of electric vehicle company Better...

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Marissa Mayer Says She Doesn't Have A 'Militant Drive' Or 'Chip On The...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is facing intense backlash for her decision to ban workers from telecommuting. Mommy bloggers have been particularly brutal and chances are they really aren't going to like the...

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Signatures Of Famous CEOs, And The Secrets They Reveal (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG, FB)

We asked a handwriting analyst to look at the signatures of some big-name technology executives and tell us what they say about their personalities.Sheila Lowe, president of the American Handwriting...

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The Difference Between Apple HQ And Google HQ Really Says It All

Last week, Google released an illustration of its next corporate campus, a complex of nine rectangular buildings, mostly adorned with green roofs, and all connected by a series of elevated walkways....

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SUBWAY FOUNDER: If I Started The Company Today, It 'Would Not Exist'

Subway co-founder Fred Deluca went on CNBC's Squawk on the Street and ripped existing government regulations and the current business environment.In fact, he said that Subway wouldn't exist if he...

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Ron Johnson Is At Odds With The Philosophy Of JCPenney's Founder

Ron Johnson's turnaround strategy for JCPenney was largely centered on "fair and square" pricing.This included weaning people off promotions and claiming to offer the lowest prices every day.  The...

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Startup Bill That Silicon Valley Loves Actually Has A 'Good Chance'

Read the story over at PandoDaily >Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »

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JCPenney Has Hired The 'New Coke' Mastermind To Help Turn Things Around

JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson announced on the company's Q4 earnings call that he has brought on former Coke marketing exec Sergio Zyman as an advisor as he tries to turn around the ailing department...

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Why 'Innocent Until Proven Guilty' Doesn't Hold At The Office

Anchorman Rob Morrison recently resigned from his job with CBS after his arrest for allegedly choking his wife.But was Morrison legally required to quit? What does the law say about the security of...

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Hyper-Productivity Could Be Holding You Back

"I believe this is a very special moment in history, a kind of perfect storm. There is a growing recognition — to borrow language from AA — that our world has become unmanageable." Those words have...

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Your 20s Is The Most Important Decade Of Your Life

University of Virginia clinical psychologist Meg Jay has a message for every young professional out there: Your 20s matter.In a talk at TED2013 Tuesday, she called the 20s the "most defining decade of...

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Why Some Of The World's Best Leaders Are Soft-Spoken

Peter Drucker once said that “management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”  My father had a more practical view, he used to tell me that “a leader is one who has followers.”...

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Elon Musk's Business Ideas Start With The Laws Of Physics

TED curator Chris Andersen interviewed SpaceX CEO and Tesla founder Elon Musk yesterday at the organization's Long Beach conference. In the interview, summarized in a blog post at the TED website, Musk...

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There Are Two Popular Secret Menu Items At Chipotle Headquarters

Chipotle's secret menu has become the stuff of legends — and the burrito chain wants to keep it that way.Fast Company's Mark Wilson has written up a fantastic look into the company's secret menu as he...

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How Superachievers Delegate To Get Things Done

Superachievers seem to accomplish an inordinate amount of work every day. But the truth is, they rely on vast networks to get everything done.We recently sat down with Camille Sweeney and Josh...

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Businesses Need To Completely Rethink How They Deal With Disasters

When Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in 2010, airline flights across the Atlantic were disrupted for days, and global supply chains for products like fruits and fresh flowers were severely...

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Ron Johnson Has Fired 19,000 People Since Taking Over JC Penney (JCP)

JCPenney has been ambiguous about the total number of layoffs at the company.But today, CEO Ron Johnson dropped the number in court as he testified in the fight between JCPenney/Martha Stewart and...

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China's Government-Run Auction House Is Unstoppable

Editor's note: This is part of GlobalPost's two-part series about China's Poly Group. Read Part 2 about Poly's powerful art auction house.TAIPEI, Taiwan — In Huang Hung-jen’s plush office in old-money...

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22 Rules For Becoming More Powerful

In the end, just about everything we do is motivated by power. Whether we're to obtain it, or responding to someone else's influence, it's a constant factor. Sometimes getting to the top requires...

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