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This Is What The Future Workplace Will Look Like [SLIDE DECK]
Technology and globalization has completely changed how we live and work, and employers are trying to figure out how best to run their companies. If people are happier and get most of their big ideas...
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Why CEO Candidates Shouldn't Even Take An Interview With JCPenney (JCP)
Following Ron Johnson's departure from JCPenney, the department store chain is in flux.The company named Johnson's predecessor, Mike Ullman, as interim CEO, but he's not likely to be there for long....
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JC Penney Has Turned Into Bill Ackman's Worst Case Scenario
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management is by far the largest shareholder at JC Penney, giving him a board seat and a lot of influence at the company. On Friday, Ackman criticized CEO Ron...
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Could This Rockstar Executive Save JCPenney?
Industry insiders we spoke to say that Brendan Hoffman, the 42-year-old CEO of Bon-Ton Shops, is an executive rockstar who could actually save JCPenney. With Ron Johnson out at JCPenney, the company...
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Check Out The Desks Of 23 Successful Tech People
The world's most successful people don't mess around when it comes to their working space.A desk has to be a place where you can be productive, healthy, and comfortable for many hours, day in day...
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Use The 'Stop, Start, Or Keep' Method To Change Company Culture
My most memorable course at HBS was taught by a young instructor (now professor) named Tom DeLong. It was called Career Management. I liked it for two reasons. First, it was the only self-reflective...
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JCPenney Interim CEO Mike Ullman Had Almost No Time To Decide Whether He'd...
JCPenney interim CEO Mike Ullman had very little time to decide whether he wanted to helm the retailer after the departure of the controversial Ron Johnson.Ullman, who was also Johnson's predecessor,...
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Why You Have Your Best Ideas In The Shower
“I’m not really a creative person”, always struck me as an odd sentence. Could it really be that some of us are born to be more creatively gifted than others?If so, I thought at first, that’s...
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You're Going To Be A Failure Until You're Not
All too often you’ll hear someone ask you “what you would do if you knew you couldn’t fail”.Maybe it was a motivational seminar you were attending or maybe it was just a close friend over a cocktail....
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Consumers Are Obsessed With Products That Give Them Information
Consumers these days have an insatiable demand for information, according to the consultants at trendwatching.com.With new possibilities unlocked by technology, consumers want to visualize data, map...
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EA's Been Voted 'The Worst Company In America' Once Again
Each year, The Consumerist polls its readers with a simple question: "What's the worst company in America?" and narrows down its "winner" through an NCAA tournament-style bracket.This year, it came...
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Why Everyone Should Do A Little Work For Free
We should all spend a small percentage of our time giving work away -- not just for charities, but for other people too.I know, I know: Doing non-charity work for nothing goes against every...
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Wal-Mart Executive Who Called Sales A 'Disaster' In Leaked Emails Is Out
The Wal-Mart executive who called February sales a "disaster" in leaked internal emails that panicked Wall Street has left the company, reports Renee Dudley at Bloomberg News. Jerry Murray, a vice...
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Enter To Win A Kindle Fire From Business Insider
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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The Average CEO Earns More In An Hour Than The Average Employee Earns In A Month
One of the biggest crises in the American economy is the rise of extreme income and wealth inequality.And one of the causes of this inequality is the bizarre consensus that, when it comes to the pay...
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There's A Critical Difference Between Creativity And Innovation
There’s a lot of confusion surrounding creativity and innovation. “Creative types,” in particular, claim that creativity and innovation can’t be measured. Performance, however, demands measurement so...
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Ron Johnson Failed At JCPenney Because He Misplayed The Expectations Game
Ron Johnson is out at JC Penney.His seventeen month stint at the retail giant will go down in history as one of the great leadership fiascos of the decade.We can learn a lot from Ron Johnson’s tenure...
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Why Well-Paid Employees Are Good for Business
It's no secret that the retail sector depends on minimum-wage labor -- when President Obama proposed raising the federal minimum wage in his State of the Union address, the National Retail Federation...
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Americans Are Quitting Their Jobs At The Highest Rate In 5 Years
People are voluntarily quitting their jobs at the highest rate since pre-recession era, according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey — known as JOLTS — published by The Bureau of Labor...
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Three More Top JC Penney Executives Have Left (JCP)
Days after Ron Johnson was ousted as CEO at JC Penney, three top executives have reportedly headed for the exits.The New York Post's James Covert reports:As first reported by The Post, Chief Operating...
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