‘Maybe’, according to The Wall Street Journal, is one word that always gets lost in translation. And in the age of electronic invitations that can be quite a problem because ‘maybe’ tends to mean very different things. To some, it’s a gentle way of saying ‘no’. To others, it’s a way to hedge in case […]
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It’s a finders keepers job market out there says The New York Post. More and more companies are paying their employees a bounty for finding a new hire. Experts say the trend illustrates how social networks have come to affect almost everything about our lives, even the hiring process. Others note that candidates that are
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To make sure their worker bees understand the value of teamwork, Google has hired a company beekeeper (found by using, what else, a Google search), who oversees employees as they harvest honey from hives on the sprawling Mountain View campus. The beekeeping club, which consists of four hives painted red, blue, yellow and green, is
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The Boston Globe reports that for the second year, advertising and public relations firm Conover Tuttle Pace has held their Summer Sublet desk swap, a lottery that forces most of the firm’s 35 employees, from the rookies to the boss, to sit somewhere new until Labor Day. To determine who was going to move where
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I recently came across an article located on Entrepreneur.com that spoke about how you can make your meetings more productive rather than a waste of every one’s time. Look below for some really great ideas that I think will make all of your meetings a lot more note worthy. Make sure that the meeting has meaning
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 Sadly in the world today there is a lot more employee fraud going around then there ever use to be. This is a result of a number of reasons such as poor economy, poor morals and just plain the way people turn out to be over the year’s. But many boss’ have a hard
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I recently came across an article locate on USA Today  that talked about the Golden Rule, the one that says ” treat others as you would want to be treated”. While this is a great philosophy to have in life and business, we have to remember that it doesn’t always work out as planned. For
photo credit: ( Torsten ) Have you ever heard the phrase “are you working hard or hardly working?”, this article that I recently read on Open Forum talks directly about how you can actually work less in order to do better in your business. Now it’s not that we are suggesting you don’t work at all
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photo credit: Paulo Brandão During the past few years, business owners have seen some very rough times and their employees have been loosing faith as they watch several hundred people being fired and laid off permanently. I just read an amazing article located on EsbJournal.com that had some really great ideas for keeping your remaining employees
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s biggest retailer, plans to offer its U.S. employees the opportunity to earn college degrees in a partnership with American Public University, reports BusinessWeek. Workers will be eligible for grants from American Public totaling 15 percent of tuition, the Charles Town, West Virginia- based online educator said today in a statement.
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