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23 Of The Best Pieces Of Advice Ever Given To Graduates
A great commencement or class-day speech sticks with you forever. You remember it when you accept for your first job, and when you quit it.Too many, unfortunately, offer the same warmed-over clichés,...
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Wal-Mart And Gap Refuse To Sign Legally Binding Bangladesh Safety Plan
Improvements to garment factory working conditions in Bangladesh seem to be coming after a factory collapse in Dhaka killed about 1,200 people, bringing global attention to the plight of the people who...
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From Googler To Home Maker: How Techie Brit Morin Is Becoming Martha Stewart 2.0
Brit Morin formerly worked for Apple and Google. Now the Silicon Valley techie has a startup that's more chic than geek.She's founded Brit & Co, a venture-backed site that's tapping into the "maker...
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Deloitte CEO: You've Got To Outwork Everyone Else To Succeed, And Dress The Part
At the end of the day, the way you dress and look impacts the way you're evaluated and promoted. It doesn't mean everything, but it informs the baseline impression someone has. That's doubly true for...
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The Top Tier Management Consultancies Are Killing It
The "big three" consulting firms, McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting group are in an enviable position. At least in the corporate world, they have great name recognition, attract many top graduates,...
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Now The GOP Is Using The IRS Scandal To Attack Obamacare
It was inevitable once the IRS admitted it had inappropriately targeted conservative non-profits for excessive scrutiny that Republicans would blend the controversy into their ongoing attacks on the...
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3 Reasons Your Sales Presentation Will Probably Fail
When sales presentations and pitches fail, it's almost always because the presenter made one of these three basic (and fortunately correctable) mistakes, according to Dean Schantz, CEO of DNA Field...
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New Businesses Are Banking On The Fact That Strangers Want To Pay Someone...
The crowdfunding economy has officially exploded – “crowds” of friends, family and strangers are funding everything from their latest film project to fertility treatments and vacations.In 2012 alone,...
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Most Meetings Are Just 'Power-Plays' In Disguise
Almost all meetings are just power-plays in disguise.Years of my life have been wasted in useless meetings. At a large company, meetings are standard. Get a few people together to talk about a problem....
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'TIGER BABY' STRIKES BACK: What It Was Like Growing Up With A Tiger Mom
As the daughter of an overbearing "Tiger Mom," Kim Wong Keltner knows just how tough it can be. "Even though I'd gotten straight A's my whole life, earned a bachelor's degree with a double major at UC...
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Columbia Is Trying To Change The Terms Of Its $840,000 Scholarship For White...
NYC's Columbia University seeking to change 1920 fellowship bequest for whites from IowaNEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a 93-year-old trust earmarked for white...
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16 Small Businesses On The Verge Of A Breakthrough
OpenSky, a startup known as "the social network of shopping," recently put out a call for small businesses that deserve to expand. The Breakthrough Award will be given to the small business with the...
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Work For Yourself Or Collect A Salary From Someone Else — Here's How To Think...
A salary is Fixed IncomeEarning a salary, working for someone else, is earning ‘fixed income,’ which means you hope it comes close to covering your lifestyle expenses. Like all fixed income, however,...
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Why Graduates Should Totally Ignore Advice From Commencement Speakers
It's the end of college graduation season, and across the country recent graduates are expected to listen to countless successful people as they give their parting advice in commencement speeches. If...
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Why The Classic Career Question 'What Should I Do With My Life?' Is Totally...
Whether you're a new college graduate or you've spent years in the work force, one question seems to linger:"What should I DO with my life?"LinkedIn's founder, Reid Hoffman, says that's the wrong...
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Wal-Mart's Customers Are More Broke Than Anyone Realizes
Wal-Martreleased earnings today and revealed that it's grappling with a slump in sales. Sales rose 1% to $113 billion, falling below Wall Street's expectations. The largest U.S. retailer blamed the...
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How Deborah Wright Became CEO Of The Largest Publicly Traded African American...
OneWire, a leading career site for finance professionals, has another installment of its Open Door video interview series out. This time, OneWire CEO Skiddy von Stade sits down with Deborah Wright, the...
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Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Won't Apologize For Saying He Only Wants Cool Thin...
Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries finally addressed the uproar over his brand's exclusion of plus-sized women, but he isn't apologizing. In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, Jeffries...
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29 Reasons Why Elon Musk Is The Most Badass CEO In America
Tesla Motors is riding high right now. It smashed earnings and revenue expectations last week, and just earned the best Consumer Reports score ever for its all-electric Model S sedan.At the helm is CEO...
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People Focus Too Much On Giving Positive Feedback Because It's Easier
A couple of weeks ago I found myself in the middle of a heated debate with a smallgroup of women leaders at a networking reception.No, the debate wasn’t about who should play Christian in the upcoming...
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