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13 CEOs Who Get Paid Shockingly More Than Their Employees
In the past 30 years, compensation for chief executives in America has increased 127 times faster than the average worker's salary.An annual list from Payscale compares the ratio of CEO to employee pay...
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For-Profit Colleges Are A Spectacularly Bad Investment
For-profit colleges look worse than ever following a study from Stanford's Caroline M. Hoxby and Harvard's Christopher Avery.The new study found that for-profit schools spend much less on instructional...
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Companies Can Now Use Glassdoor To Track Job Seekers
If you've ever wondered who is interested in working at your company, and who your biggest competitors for talent are, you can now find out.Jobs community Glassdoor has released a free self-service...
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Google's Favorite Psychologist Has Some Advice About Motivation
Psychologist Adam Grant gives some excellent and unconventional advice in a cover story in The New York Times Magazine.He says "the greatest untapped source of motivation" is focusing on how our work...
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The Possibility Of Failure Makes Competition Worthwhile
Anyone born in the 70s to parents of an even slightly knit-your-own-muesli disposition must have encountered the horror of "non-competitive games". The intention was excellent – to show that...
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What Marissa Mayer's Fashion Sense Says About Her Management Syle
In the workplace, the way you look has a huge impact in your own confidence as well as the way others view you — especially if you're in a management position. Your fashion sense can reveal your...
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This Guy Wrote A Computer Program To Do His Job For Him
Wouldn't it be cool to stop working and still get paid? It turns out that it's not only possible, but it's been done.We reached out to a source who created a computer program to do his job for him.He...
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A Revolutionary Idea Needs A Loyal Group Of Followers
Technology pioneer Alan Kay famously said that “the best way to predict the future is to invent it.” It’s the kind of inspiring quote that can completely change your outlook on things.That is, until...
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Meditation Is Great For Business
You don't need a personal guru or a trip to India to bring you inner peace. Perhaps you simply need to learn from Mirabai Bush, co-founder of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. Bush has...
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Office Parties Have Unintended Consequences For Company Culture
The office holiday party; the company softball league; the baby shower for the woman who sits three cubicles down the hall; happy hour with your co-workers: These are all part of the social rhythms and...
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Is Your Business In The Cloud? Please Take Our Short Survey!
A survey conducted by Citrix earlier this year asserts that not only do most people have no idea what the "cloud" actually is, but that they also routinely feign knowledge about it.But we're not...
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I Lost $2 Million Today
Last week I had a two million dollar deal fall through. Meaning, two million dollars would go to me if the deal had happened. This seems like a “first world problem” and of course it is. But it sucks...
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Being The Founder Of A Startup Is 'One Big Giant Mood Swing'
GoodData founder and CEO Roman Stanek has had a fascinating career. He's a native of Czechoslovakia, and got into software and started his first business when the Soviet Union was falling and eastern...
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A 20 Percent Pay Cut Can Mean Nothing To A CEO
Air Products & Chemicals got some press recently when it was held up as an example of corporate America’s renewed dedication to paying CEOs only if they perform. The US industrial gas company’s...
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Quick Fixes In Business Always End In Disaster
The Problem with the Quick FixHere’s a question that I get too often: How can you build an innovation capability really fast?I’ve told the story before of one typical example:I had lunch a while back...
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It's Time To Learn How To Behave In Emerging Markets
Small businesses are increasingly discovering incredible opportunities in emerging markets such as China, India, Russia and Brazil. Yet simple mistakes in communication often ruin otherwise win-win...
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Find Revenue In Big Data In Months, Not Years
Many who make the Big Data journey are overly fixated on making it to the “Promised Land.”In far too many cases I see people who plan to build out a complete system and architecture before using a...
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We're giving you a chance to win a Kindle Fire HD. Become a newsletter subscriber now to enter. If you're the lucky winner you will have a host of features at your fingertips. Entry deadline is May...
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5 Tips For Being The Best At Anything
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Big Health Insurance CEO Sees 'Troubled Times' For Obamacare
Humana CEO Bruce Broussard runs the fourth-largest health insurance group in America. He has spent more time engaging with the provisions of President Obama's health care reform than just about anybody...
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