We're Past The Point Where Companies Can Ignore Employees' Personal Devices
The line between a work device and a personal device is blurrier than ever. People are already accustomed to constantly checking their email on their smartphone or tablet, and want the same for other...
View ArticleRunning A Family Like A Business Is Less Absurd Than It Sounds
You can probably imagine my initial reaction upon seeing the Wall Street Journal headline Run Your Family Like A Business. But, as it happens, you don't need to: an artist happened to be passing and...
View ArticleThe Cosmetics Industry Has One Key Demographic Left Unturned, And A...
The U.S. personal care industry surpassed pre-recession levels in 2011, exceeding $38 billion in revenue, and there is still room for it to grow.While there are many options for skin care for babies,...
View ArticleCostco's Unorthodox Strategy To Survive The Big Box Apocalypse
Big box stores are dying. JCPenney, Sears, Best Buy, and more are shuttering stores and recasting their strategies.“They were hit by a perfect storm of competition from the Internet and supermarkets,”...
View ArticleMarissa Mayer Should Have Used Google's Excellent Argument To Bring Remote...
In bringing remote workers back into Yahoo's offices, Marissa Mayer was taking a page out of her former employer's book. People at Google tend to love it there, and their corporate culture is much...
View ArticleToyota Plans To Hire Foreigners To Help With Global Growth
A management shake-up at Toyota heralds a new era which will force the firm to look beyond the narrow confines of corporate life in Japan and help it in the global marketplace, analysts said on...
View ArticleWhy This 28-Year-Old Executive Left Square To Become A Venture Capitalist
Square executive Jared Fliesler confirmed today that he's leaving the payments company and becoming a venture capitalist, as Business Insiderfirst reported last month.He's joining Matrix Partners as...
View ArticleIf You Want To Be More Successful, You Can't Avoid Confrontation
We all have things that hold us back: We're uncertain, we lack confidence, we worry about looking stupid....Oddly enough the more "successful" we become the more of those fears we often have; the more...
View ArticleA Revolutionary Platform Is Making Shopping Social Again
Shoppers have an unprecedented number of options today thanks to the advent of e-commerce. But John Caplan, the CEO of OpenSky, noticed that a key part of shopping was missing from the web. "Physical...
View ArticlePizza Hut Is Holding Job Interviews That Are Only 140 Seconds Long
Pizza Hut is looking for a digital media manager based out of Plano, TX, and if you want the gig, you're only going to have 140 seconds to sell yourself, Venessa Wong at Bloomberg Businessweek...
View ArticleThis Was The Moment When Sheryl Sandberg Realized How Women Hold Themselves Back
Sheryl Sandberg is getting a ton of press — including a Time magazine cover— before her book, "Lean In," is released on Monday.The Facebook COO says "it is sort of a feminist manifesto, but one that I...
View Article'Undercover Boss' Appearance Taught This CEO A Lesson About Tomatoes
Freshii CEO Matthew Corrin will be on an episode of 'Undercover Boss Canada' airing tonight. The healthy-casual restaurant has 100 locations worldwide and is expanding rapidly.We spoke to Corrin about...
View ArticleWhy JCPenney's New Corporate Culture Is Failing
When Ron Johnson first took the helm of JCPenney, he saw a culture of complacency. He tried to fix it, implementing ideas he learned from his previous jobs at Apple and Target.It hasn't...
View ArticleGALLUP: Unhappy Workers Are The Single Biggest Threat To China
The world's largest workforce isn't happy with their jobs.Low workforce engagement in China is becoming a serious problem that could impede the country's rise to economic superpower. It is, in fact,...
View ArticleThe 10 Worst Social Media Fails Of The Year So Far
The year is less than three months old, yet already several brands have made king-sized screwups in social media.Among their crimes: Using a four-letter word to insult a nine-year-old girl....
View ArticleApple Lets Employees Leave And Come Back After Two Years And Keep Their...
Here's an interesting quirk of Apple's HR process.According to tech blogger John Gruber of Daring Fireball, Apple employees can leave the company, and then return after two years without losing their...
View ArticleEvery Founder Knows Just How Much It Hurts To Sell Their Startup
My fingers trembled as I fed page 34 of 72 into the fax machine, deftly pressing the head of each page into its creaky jaws so that this shitty cheap-o machine wouldn’t snag two pages at once, slant...
View ArticleThe 25 Most Powerful Women On Wall Street
It's International Women's Day, so we're publishing our first ever list of the 25 most powerful women on Wall Street.For the list, we talked to several people on Wall Street to see whom they regarded...
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg: Marissa Mayer Is Being Attacked Only Because She's A Woman...
When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer decided employees had to come to the office and could no longer work at home, we highly doubt she thought it generate as much controversy as it did.The story leapt from the...
View ArticleThis Video Will Inspire You To Do Anything
Steve Bell was born with cystic fibrosis, and the doctors diagnosed him with a "failure to thrive."His daily routine consists of taking 50-70 pills and over an hour of treatment, which includes putting...
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