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Emotions And Momentum Are The Biggest Causes Of Bad Negotiating
Mark Shapiro did not win many arguments with his father growing up in Baltimore. Although he is now the president of Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians, his father, Ron, has a reputation as a...
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The Secret To Workplace Happiness Is Working Really Intensely For A Shorter Time
As anyone who has ever gone to the gym can tell you there are two components to a workout's difficulty: intensity (how heavy is the weight) and duration (are you lifting it five times or 20).Might the...
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Jeff Bezos: This Is Why I'm Hot
“Amazon, as far as I can tell, is a charitable organization being run by elements of the investment community for the benefit of consumers,” writes one outside observer. But I don’t think so. To me,...
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Startup Founder Ramona Pierson Has Survived Worse Things Than Most People Can...
Everybody has a story but few are as painful and triumphant as Ramona Pierson's.Pierson is the CEO of a stealth startup, Pierson Labs.She is also, quite possibly, the most inspiring tech founder in the...
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How An Erupting Volcano Lead Ross Mason To Create An $80 Million Enterprise...
As we've previously reported, MuleSoft has quietly become one of the hottest startups in the enterprise arena, with VCs and other enterprise companies throwing investment money at it.The six-year-old...
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Amazon's Letter To Shareholders Should Inspire Every Company In America
Late last week, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos published his latest letter to shareholders.This year's letter, like most of Bezos's letters, should inspire most companies to change the way they do...
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It's Leonardo da Vinci's Birthday: Here Are 15 Quotes From The Renaissance Man
It is sometimes related that, while the young Leonardo da Vinci was an apprentice to Florentine painter Andrea del Verrocchio, the two collaborated on a painting. But when Verrocchio saw the beautiful...
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People Crave Autonomy More Than Any Perk
Back in February, when Yahoo's chief executive, Marissa Mayer, announced a company-wide ban on working from home, the response from media commentators was vociferous. (If the outcry seemed...
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Your Brain Thrives On Complexity When You're Solving Tough Problems
Too often we try to simplify a problem to solve it. But we, and millions of effective problem solving organisms in nature, have been solving problems in a very complex world for billions of years. We...
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Ron Johnson's Attempt To Fix JCPenney's Brand Was Completely Backwards
It’s difficult to watch someone whose work you previously admired for revolutionizing both the technology and department store retail industries fail so dramatically.Yet fail is what Ron Johnson did...
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You Need More Than Just Inspiration To Spark Brilliant Ideas
The word “inspiration” usually means something that mentally stimulates you.But “inspiration” also means to breathe in.The meanings poetically combine when you think of yourself breathing in thoughts,...
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The Worst Job Interview Questions Employers Can Ask
Job seekers can find plenty of advice on what not say in an interview and how to blow their chances, but let's turn the tables and talk about some of the worst questions that interviewers ask...
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Why Charging Fat Passengers More Is Totally Defensible
When Samoa Air last week announced it was going to start charging people for airline tickets based on their weight -- a concept that Samoa Air CEO Chris Langton defended in news reports as "the fairest...
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The Key To Successful Innovation Isn't Glamorous At All
Most people probably don’t think of Germany right away when they think of adaptability, but an article in the October 2012 Scientific American called “Why Germany Still Makes Things” reveals that at...
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Steve Jobs's 'CEO Coach' Gave A One Hour Talk About What Makes A Great Company
Here's something that's relatively rare. Intuit chairman Bill Campbell sat for a one-hour video taped conversation with CEO Brad Smith.Campbell's nickname is "coach" because he used to coach football,...
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Real Estate Billionaire Is Making A Giant Bet On Detroit
Multi-billionaire Dan Gilbert, the founder and chairman of mortgage lending giant Quicken Loans, is in the middle of one of "the most ambitious privately financed urban reclamation projects in American...
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There Really Is A Stigma Against The Long-Term Unemployed
The longer you've been out of work, the harder it is to find a job. More evidence of the stigma against the long-term unemployed was found by economist Rand Ghayad, who conducted an experiment where he...
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Meet Charlie Ergen, Who Just Made A $25.5 Billion Offer To Buy Sprint
In a remarkably bold move, US satellite TV provider Dish Network today began a campaign to supplant Softbank’s planned deal for Sprint Nextel with its own $25.5 billion acquisition of Sprint.Dish,...
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Why Do We Only Look At A 'Few Outrider Women' At The Top But Ignore The Rest?
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's harshest critics argue that her controversial book, "Lean In," is overly focused on advancing women at or near the top, but leaves the average woman without any real...
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8 Tough Career Lessons I Didn't Want But Definitely Needed
Since screw-ups tend to be magnets for advice, I've received a lot of painfully direct—yet ultimately very helpful comments—along the way:"Express your individuality on your own time." In my first job...
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