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Fareed Zakaria Is Now Caught Up In A Plagiarism Scandal
Fareed Zakaria reads The New Yorker. We can only assume that because his latest column for Time on gun control, reads a lot like Jill Lepore's lengthy New Yorker article on the NRA from April. The...
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11 Ways To Turn LinkedIn Groups Into Networking Gold Mines
A friend of mine landed his last six clients as a direct result of his participation in LinkedIn Groups. Another sees his groups as a natural extension of his social-media marketing efforts. And...
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There Are More Women General Counsels At Fortune 500 Companies Than Ever...
The number of women serving as general counsel at Fortune 500 companies has more than doubled from 1999 to 2008, according to a survey by Minority Corporate Counsel Association. There were 92 women...
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What Smart People Do When Mark Zuckerberg Signs Up For Your App (FB)
Whenever Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg joins a new social network, we obsess over it. A startup founder might construe that as a kind of validation for his or her idea. If it's good enough for Zuck,...
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Ditching Your Comfort Zone Is The Only Way To Get Anywhere In Life
I’m 40 meters underwater. It’s getting cold and dark. It’s only the third dive in my life, but I’m taking the advanced training course, and the Caribbean teacher was a little reckless, dashing ahead,...
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Everyone On Marissa Mayer's Senior Team Expects To Be Replaced Within 18...
A source in touch with people on Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's senior staff says that "everyone" who reports to her in jobs that they had prior to her arrival "expects to be replaced"—probably before the...
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How This Tech Startup Expanded Its Operations From Paris To New York City
Among the many challenges a small business can face, efficient communication between employees and teams is one of the most important issues, especially when that company decides to expand to a second...
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Read The Panera Facebook Post About Soup And Cancer That Got Half A Million...
A heartwarming post about a sick grandmother and a warm cup of Panera soup has garnered more than 500,000 likes and 22,000 comments on Facebook—proving that organic and sincere social media activity...
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Our Strategy And Leadership Vertical Is Hiring A Reporter
Business Insider's popular War Room vertical is looking for a reporter. Could it be you? Here's how to know if you're the ideal candidate: *You're an excellent writer *You have a basic understanding of...
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This Guy Makes $100K Annually, Yet Hasn't Had A Traditional Job In 6 Years
In 2005, 31-year old Matt Kepnes took a trip to Thailand that would change the way he viewed his traditional American life. By the time he returned to his cubicle in Boston, Kepnes told his bosses...
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You Lose A Frightening Number Of IQ Points By Multitasking
Here, a few vivid comparisons that bring home the fact that multitasking makes you dumber. On his always-interesting blog, Eric Barker quotes a book called “Your Brain at Work: Strategies for...
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Why The Fashion World Hates Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian is fighting an eternal uphill battle in the fashion industry. High fashion has always has a tough industry to penetrate. It has a "snobbery and classism" that stonewalls those deemed...
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What To Do When Someone Tries To Poach Your Best Engineers
The recruiting scene in Silicon Valley is brutal. So, if you get contacted by a recruiter trying to lure you away from a company you love, here's one strategy: Get them to feed you contact information...
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POP QUIZ: Can You Figure Out What These Brands Are By Looking At Colored...
Logo designer Graham Smith has put together a series called Unevolved Brands which use only colored circles to create iconic brand logos. "Logos and brands that have strong and unique colors, as well...
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Retail Workers Reveal The Annoying Little Things That Customers Do
Most retailers adopt the mantra that the customer is always right. But retail employees often get the shaft. Thousands of them recently vented about their experiences on Reddit. Here are some of the...
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Costco Proves That Big Retailers Can Offer Employees Healthcare
After the Obamacare ruling, the National Retail Federation said requiring retail employers to offer healthcare would be devastating to the industry. Since the ruling in June, big businesses including...
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In A Silicon Valley Startup Deal, The Coffee Shop You Choose Is Crucial
A very successful entrepreneur who sold his company to an Internet giant just dropped a bit of local lore on us over lunch in Palo Alto. The exact location of the coffee shop in Palo Alto you choose...
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Here's How Much Money The World's Biggest Brands Spent Designing Their Logos
One of the most important parts of a company's branding strategy is choosing the right logo. The process takes a lot of time, vision, talent ... and sometimes money. Stock Logos—a site that offers,...
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Ikea Is Planning A Line Of Budget Hotels
Ikea, the world's largest furniture retailer, is planning to develop a range of budget hotels. Inter Ikea, the company that owns Ikea’s intellectual property rights, is looking at potential sites...
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This Nike Olympics Shirt For Women Offended A Lot Of People
One of Nike's Olympic t-shirts offended the Twitterverse, who found the message sexist. The plain, black shirt is printed with the words "Gold Digging." It's supposed to be a reference to the gold...
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