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Here's A Strategic Way To Gain Trust During A Business Meeting
All it takes is an awkward start to potentially create a negative atmosphere during an interview or business meeting. And with so many different personality types, you can never really be sure how...
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Investor FedExes A Startup Job Offer To An Unsuspecting College Student
Smart, technical college students are getting asked to drop out of school and join startups. Sometimes, the offers show up on their doors unannounced. According to the Wall Street Journal, Peter...
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PROFESSOR: Wake Up Fashion Industry, We Don't Need More Clothes
The fashion industry is mired in crisis. The global economy is struggling, there's no end in sight for the European slowdown and the end of cheap Chinese manufacturing is approaching. Alvaro...
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CEOs Who Also Serve As Chairmen Are Robbing Their Shareholders Blind
Everyone says you should not let the CEO—who is supposed to be held in check by the board—become the chairman of the board. The Council of Institutional Investors has "long advocated" that boards be...
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BANK EMPLOYEE IN 'THE CITY': Here's What I Wish I Knew While Working My Way...
The Guardian's Joris Luyendijk usually talks to high flying traders or M&A bankers. These are the guys you want to be, who give you insight into a mysterious world. But as the subject of his latest...
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Porn And Video Games Are Ruining The Next Generation Of American Men
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo claims that today's young men are destined for failure because of porn and video games. In his controversial book The Demise of Guys: Why Boys Are Struggling And What We...
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Why The Flagship Store Is The Last To Get New Tech, But The First To Get New...
Whenever New York's Cuban comfort food chain Havana Central tries out a new computer system or application, founder Jeremy Merrin does a test run on the technology in its newest location. "It costs...
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People Afraid Of Discrimination Are Costing Companies A Lot Of Money
People who have an overwhelming fear of being discriminated against — for anything from their gender to sexual orientation — have a higher chance of leaving their jobs. According to a study published...
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Only A Few, Elite Companies Are Attracting The Best Talent
A warning to senior executives of companies across industries: Your recruiters could be repelling your best job applicants. They're providing the same recruiting messages to all candidates. But the...
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POLL: Am I The Only One Annoyed By Southwest's Boarding Process?
My parents warned me not to fly Southwest to Phoenix, but I bought a ticket anyway. I had flown low-cost airlines like Frontier and Jet Blue and had a great time. In fact, I enjoyed those two more than...
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ZocDoc Just Made My Day By Booting A Shady Doctor Off Its Site
I have an arthritic foot that'll surgery soon. So when my podiatrist dropped my insurance, I was hard-pressed to find a new one. I reluctantly began scouring review sites like Yelp and RateMDs to weed...
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QUIZ: How Well Do You REALLY Know The Starbucks Menu?
The Starbucks menu is a complex system that most people can barely understand. There are 90,000 possible drink combinations, each of which must be recited in the correct order or the barista will...
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Harvard B-School Prof: Stop Sleeping With Your Smartphone!
Be honest: How often do you check your work email right before you go to bed, and then again almost immediately after you wake up? And in the meantime--just in case--your smartphone rests about an...
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Ford Is A Better Company Than GM Because They've Followed The Same Idea Since...
The Corporate DNA is not a mythical term. It is much more than Corporate Identity. It is not the same as branding. It is a sense of history that reflects in the way a company conducts its business. It...
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This Man Basically Stole Airbnb's Idea, And He's Proud Of It
The Billion-Dollar Idea came to Arne Bleckwenn suddenly and all at once: What if travelers could use the Internet to book rooms in apartments just as easily as they could book rooms in hotels? What if...
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These Brands Are Doing Amazing Things With Instagram
In a world that is weary of ad gimmicks, Instagram has provided brands with a creative new medium through which they can reach as many as 50 million users (turned amateur photographers) in an artistic...
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Dewey & LeBoeuf Partners Sounded The Alarm On A Criminal Probe Against The...
Bankrupt law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf's own partners reportedly tipped off the press that its ousted chairman was facing a criminal probe. Ex-firm leader Charles Landgraf told the Washington Post on...
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This Walmart Exec Is Betting His Career On The Success Of 'EDLP'
"EDLP" is one of Walmart's favorite acronyms. It stands for "every day low prices" — promising consumers a low price without having to watch for sales and promos — and it's a key part of its pricing...
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Thomas Edison's 1888 To-Do List Will Make You Feel Like A Total Underachiever
It's not surprising that same man who brought us recorded sound and electric light had a very packed schedule. Maria Popova of Brain Pickings has dug up Thomas Edison's five-page list of "things...
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Twitter Is Officially The Worst Vehicle For Customer Complaints
If you've got a gripe with an online retailer, chances are you'd be better off playing phone tag with customer service than trying to tweet your complaint. Just over 40 percent of customer service...
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