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A Good Place To Work
At Opsware I used to teach a management expectations course because I deeply believed in training. In it, I made it clear that I expected every manager to meet with her people on a regular basis. I...
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7 Common Mistakes Young Startup Founders Make
A lot of young people are starting companies. But when you're young and inexperienced, you're more error prone. Nick Tart spoke to many young founders while co-authoring a book, 50 Interviews: Young...
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These Maps Show How Walmart Took Over America
These amazing time-lapse maps by Flowing Data show how Walmart took over the USA in 40 years. Sam Walton opened his first two stores in Arkansas by 1965: Ten years later, the retailer had expanded...
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McDonald's Is Letting People Buy Food Via Phones In One Lucky Country—Here's...
McDonald's is testing a mobile payment plan with PayPal at 30 different locations in France. Reuters notes that this mobile move highlights PayPal's race against Square for mobile commerce dominance....
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Best Buy Is Bringing In A Master Turnaround Artist (BBY)
Best Buy has announced that its new CEO is Hubert Joly, a former hospitality CEO. He'll be starting in early September, once his visa is secured. Joly, who is from France, will step in to replace...
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People Are Already Disappointed In Best Buy's New CEO Choice
Today, Best Buy announced it was bringing in a new CEO, Hubert Joly. Joly doesn't have experience in electronics or retail, but he helmed a successful turnaround at Carlson, a hospitality company. Best...
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GM CEO: Ignore The Sensationalist Critics, We're Making Real Progress Here
General Motors CEO Dan Akerson is sick of people on the outside "wildly" speculating about his company. So, he has written a column in the Detroit Free Press in defense of himself and GM. Akerson says...
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American Eagle Is Expected To Dominate Back-To-School Shopping (AEO)
Back-to-school season is the second-most important time of the year for retailers, besides the holidays. And one teen apparel retailer is expected to stand above the rest: American Eagle Outfitters....
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Here's Why Your 'True Mid-Life Crisis' Will Start In Your 30s
Instead of expecting to live a full, normal life until everything goes haywire in your 50s, you can now start expecting the most stressful time of your life to hit a couple of decades earlier. Why is...
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As A 2-Month Old Startup, Facebook Had A Staggering 90 Million Monthly Pageviews
Digiday dug up Facebook's first-ever pitch deck from April 2004. Eduardo Saverin put it together to entice advertisers. Even then, two months after its launch, Facebook was a fast-growing phenomenon....
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Good Bosses Are Almost Twice As Productive As Their Employees
Hiring the right people is essential to the success of any business, and promoting the right people may be even more important. A good boss is 1.75 times more productive than the people he or she...
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We Feel More Stressed Out And Less Productive Working In Open-Plan Offices
Ringing phones. Pinging e-mail. Co-workers’ ringing phones and pinging e-mail. How is anyone supposed to get work done in this place? The modern open office was designed for team building and...
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Best Buy Admits That The Mood At Corporate HQ Isn't What It Used To Be
There was much to talk about on Best Buy's Q2 conference call with analysts this morning: the incoming CEO Hubert Joly, the company's struggling bottom line and much more. Another important issue that...
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America's 10 Longest-Living Brands
Consumers, it seems, are always after the shiny new product. For some industries, the latest version is always the most popular—the newest smartphone, tablet and sneaker are always the products in...
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This Prescient 1992 WaPo Memo Predicted The End Of Print — And The Rise Of...
"Our goal, obviously, is to avoid getting boiled as the electronic revolution continues. I am not here dreaming of (or worrying about) a world in which computers have displaced the printed word, and us...
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People Are Beginning To Realize Self-Employment Isn't All It's Cracked Up To Be
Whether it’s by preference or an act of desperation by people who’ve gone years without a full-time job, U.S. workers are striking out on their own in greater numbers than ever before. The number of...
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The 7 Most Underpaid, Yet Satisfying Jobs In America
Call it employee malaise, or some component of "The American Dream," but many workers in the United States feel they're not earning the salary they deserve. For some of them, that notion is personal...
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How Urban Outfitters Surprised Everyone And Dominated This Quarter
Urban Outfitters posted surprisingly awesome results this quarter. The chain has been criticized recently for selling overpriced fashions and missing key fashion trends. It also lost CEO Glen Senk,...
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It's True: Brands Can Make Money On Facebook Without Buying Advertising
In the wake of an IPO fizzle, investors have questioned the effectiveness of Facebook's business model. But at least one major company is scoring big on Facebook's core value proposition of social...
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INFOGRAPHIC: The Rise Of Content 4.0
Content 4.0 is here. That's content worth paying for -- and consumers are buying lots of it. For the preceding decade, content has been available for free online, both legally and illegally. So why...
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