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Zara May Be The Only Company In Spain Not Failing
It may not be a favorite of those with wide waistlines, but Inditex, owner of the Zara fashion chain, now comes in extra large. This week the La Coruña-based fashion retailer overtook telecoms company...
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Harvard Professor Explains Why Your Remote Control Is So Hard To Use
Developers should go back to basics and stop trying to load products with special features: turns out, consumers don't care about them. According to consultant Donald Reinertsen and Harvard Business...
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This One Leadership Trait Will Boost Your Whole Team's Performance
Charismatic leaders bring out our best and make us do better work. Via The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism: If you’re a leader, or aspire to be one,...
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Look At All The Things That Are Bigger, Faster And Better In China...
Consumer research group trendwatching.com describes the rise of Chinese brands in its latest excellent presentation. Chinese brands are making competitive entries into the smartphones (see: China...
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The CFA Is Over, Here Are The Awful, Hilarious And Helpful Things We Learned...
The CFA Exam came and went this past weekend, and we imagine most of Wall Street is a lot more relaxed today, or at least nursing a hangover from some well-deserved post-test libations. The CFA exam...
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30,000 Outraged Parents Have A Bone To Pick With United Airlines
It's been weeks since United Airlines decided to yank preboarding privileges from families with children, but the controversy is only just now reaching its boiling point. More than 30,000 consumers...
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Robert Greene Tells Us What People Don't Understand About Power
We recently wrote about Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power, with Machiavellian tips on how to conceal your intentions, manipulate people and destroy your competition. To learn about what inspired his...
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Having A Hot Wife Could Help You Land That Job
As a candidate, you know that people considering you for employment judge you on everything, right? Clothes. Your Car. How you talk. Whether your spouse is smoking hot. Hold up, what was that last one?...
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Study Says That This Commonly-Used Interview Screening Tactic Actually Has...
Hiring and training new employees is expensive and time-consuming, so most companies will try to detect "job hoppers" — those who change jobs frequently — early in the interviewing process by...
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Most People Are Only Productive 3 Days A Week, And Here's How To Fix That
A recent study of 38,000 workers found that most people are only productive three days week. And it's no surprise that 89 percent of people don't accomplish everything on their to-do lists, according...
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Taco Bell Set A New Record By Selling 100 Million Doritos Tacos In Just 10 Weeks
Taco Bell sold a whopping 100 million Doritos Locos Tacos in just 10 weeks. How good is that? Taco Bell says that the launch has been the most successful in the company 50-year history, ousting the...
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This Boss Doesn't Tell His Employees When He's Coming Back From Vacation So...
Many years ago I had the pleasure of working for a mid-sized regional law firm based out of Washington, D.C. It was a thriving practice driven primarily by the skill and amazing work-ethic of the...
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Starbucks Is Buying This San Francisco Bakery For $100 Million (SBUX)
Starbucks is laying down $100 million to buy San Francisco bakery chain La Boulange owner Bay Bread Group reports Lisa Baertlein at Reuters. Food has always been a problem for the world's biggest...
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Private Equity Firms Are Bankrolling Start-Ups That Rip Off Twitter And...
Some venture capitalists call it "geo-arbitrage"; others know it as "tropicalisation". The term refers to the practice of backing start-ups that take an established business model and adapt it to an...
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The Top People In Tech Are Freaking Out Over Starbucks's $100 Million...
So Starbucks bought some little French bakery in northern California? Oh, non, my friends, non. If you want to understand the living, beating pulse of the tech world today, you must understand the...
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College Grads Are Getting Really Unprofessional At Work
Generation Y is accustomed to a much more lax work atmosphere, where sending text message-like emails from their smartphones is second nature. Recent grads are becoming more laid back, but their future...
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: This Is The Difference Between Thinking Fast And Slow
When advisors want to understand why their clients make seemingly irrational financial choices, odds are they will find answers in the research of Nobel-winning behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman....
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Check Out The Latest Attempt To Reinvent The Office Chair And Put An End To...
This is Focal, the upright furniture design that's trying to reinvent the office chair and put an end to "sitting disease" — the chronic aches and back injuries you can suffer while toiling away in a...
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This Is The #1 Thing That Companies Do To Destroy Shareholder Value
Here's number two in our series of lessons from Aswath Damodaran's three day course on valuation for executives. Mergers and acquisitions are some of the highest profile and most prestigious deals on...
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Why Business Needs People With Asperger's Syndrome, Attention-Deficit...
In 1956 William Whyte argued in his bestseller, "The Organisation Man", that companies were so in love with "well-rounded" executives that they fought a "fight against genius". Today many suffer from...
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