Morale

iPhone Supplier Holds HUGE Pep Rally After 12th Suicide This Year

AP | By GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011

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SHENZHEN, China (AP)-- Following a string of suicides at its Chinese factories, Foxconn Technology Group raised workers' wages and installed safety ne...

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How to Boost Creativity, Productivity and Morale in the Workplace: Let Your Employees Play!

Darell Hammond | Posted 05.25.2011

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Darell Hammond

The collective wisdom is that play takes away from work. But if we instead abide by the philosophy that play contributes to work, we end up with employees who are happier and healthier.

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A Warning To Kraft Foods: Eat Cadbury's And You'll Get Indigestion.

Simon Sinek | Posted 05.25.2011

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Simon Sinek

Kraft Foods seeming obsession with building a "global powerhouse" as a sound reason to merge with Cadbury's provides a telling glimpse into the future...

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US Military Suicides Rise, Despite Prevention Efforts

McClatchy | Halimah Abdullah | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Eight years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq have etched indelible scars on the psyches of many of the nation's servicemen and women, and ...

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McChrystal On 60 Minutes: Afghanistan "A Little Worse" Than Gen. Stanley M. McChrystal Expected (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Things in Afghanistan are "probably a little worse" than Gen. Stanley M. McChrystal expected. 60 Minutes aired its interview Sunday night with Gen. M...

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Nine Ways to Boost Morale at Work

Nicole Williams | Posted 11.17.2011

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Nicole Williams

Here aresome ways to motivate your team and make them feel loved -- before you end up staple-gunning each other to the desks.

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Don't Turn Obama Into Blair

Indra Adnan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Indra Adnan

Too many people in the UK remember the hope and subsequent betrayal of New Labour's victory in 1997 when Tony Blair metamorphosed from Bambi to Terminator in his first term.

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Sixty Years After Desegregation, Ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Being gay should be no more of a barrier to serving the United States military than being black now is. My guess is that sixty years from now, people will wonder what took us so long.

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