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I Want to Be More Like the New York Yankees

Rachel Thebault | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home

Read More: 2009 World Series, Success, New York Yankees, George Steinbrenner, World Series, Major League Baseball, Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, Business, Philadelphia Phillies, Home News
Rachel Thebault

This isn't easy for me to say. Growing up in Washington, DC, I was born and bred to hate the Yankees, and I've spent the first 98.5% of my life thus ...

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Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Part 1 of 7

Alice Schroeder | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Excerpt, Book Excerpt, Economics, Books, Economic Crisis, Aig, Business, Eliot Spitzer, Berkshire Hathaway, Merrill Lynch, Wall Street, Gen Re Securities, Warren Buffett, Sec, The Snowball, Alice Schroeder, Business News
Alice Schroeder

Warren Buffett is never more himself than when he is given the chance to invest in something he wants at a price of his choosing.

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10 Sure Fire Ways to Make Your Life 100 Times Better

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Relationship Advice, Youth, Wealth, Corporate Responsibility, Sex, Books, Self-Confidence, Self-Improvement, Self-Esteem, Business, Confidence, Self-Help, Self-Realization, Living News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

My grandmother was a wise woman. She would tell me, "Live each day, one at a time." When I asked her how else you could live, she would take a sip from the flask under her apron and shrug her shoulders.

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Walmart Caskets For Sale Online, Starting At $999 (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Wal-Mart Sells Caskets Online, Walmart Caskets for Sale Online, Walmart Inventory, Wal-Mart Stores, Shopping, Walmart Selling Caskets Online, Walmart Online, Star Legacy Funeral Network, Funeral Homes, Business, Walmart Caskets, Walmart Casket, Caskets at Walmart, Wal Mart Caskets, Wal-Mart Caskets, Wal-Mart Casket, Walmart, Wal Mart Casket, Caskets Walmart, Caskets for Sale, Business News

Never mind its typical merchandise, the world's largest retailer has a new item on the shelf. You can now purchase Walmart caskets, a development t...

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Volunteering to Change the World: Top 15 Reasons People Join

Patricia Martin | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Giving, Charity, Volunteering, Causes, Business Networking, Chicago Volunteering, Business, Networking, Chicago News
Patricia Martin

What drives people to pour hours of their precious time into charity work? There's a big carrot enticing many people to roll up their sleeves for charity -- a shot at playing a leadership role.

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Do Your HR Professionals Know How to Make Change?

Jon Younger | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Human Resources, Business, HR Role, HR Professionals, Hr, Business News
Jon Younger

HR professionals are uniquely positioned to help line managers identify and solve individual and team performance issues, but must have the skills to do so.

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Who Wants Yesterday's Frameworks?

Paul David Walker | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: U.S. Economy, Living, Business, New Realities, Jack Welch, Walt Disney, Business Frameworks, Living News
Paul David Walker

One of my mentors had said to me years ago, "Do you want to be right, or win." My thought sounded like Jack Welch, "I want both."

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AP: Obama's New Consumer Agency Is Far From A Sure Deal

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer Protection Agency, Consumers, Business, Consumer Protection, Barack Obama, Business News

WASHINGTON — Take a hard look now. A new agency that consumers were promised would make bankers, credit card companies and mortgage lenders trea...

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Shriver Report: Get Married, Have Kids, Then We'll Speak to Your Issues

Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Workforce, Social Security, Singled Out, Pay, Divorce, Children, Matrimania, A Woman’s Nation, Gloria Steinem, Nonfamily Households, Media, Childless Women, Business, Ideology, Consciousness-Raising, Friendship, Compulsory Heterosexuality, Politics, Compulsory Mothering, Singlism, Discrimination, Breadwinners, Health Care, Couples, Family, Women’s Media Center, Taxes, Connection, Single-Person Households, Wives, Compulsory Marriage, Money, Women’s Movement, Suze Orman, Shriver Report, Singles, Maria Shriver, Time Magazine, Mothers, Gender, Education, Oprah Winfrey, Career, Workplace, Unmarried America, John Podesta, Adrienne Rich, Living News
Bella DePaulo

I'll highlight some remarkable and conventional-wisdom-defying findings from the report that were published but never headlined.

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Just Listen Microsoft - An Opportunist Does Not a Visionary Make

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Apple, Windows 7, Microsoft, Mark Goulston, Visionary, Business, Entrepreneurship, Living News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

Opportunists are about extending a grasp in an already competitive environment. They are about being grabby, and when they have the clout of a Microsoft, about being "pushy."

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Overthinking to Stinking: The Dangers of Overly Complicated Marketing

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Creativity, Marketing, Sales, Creative Capitalism, Business, Retail Sales, Corporations, Corporate America, Business News
Sarah O'Leary

A unique marketing idea is like a rock on the side of a riverbank. It has flat spots and rough spots and points and dips and crags and a host of things that make it different from the rest.

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Entrepreneurship May Be Genetic

inc.com | Josh Spiro | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Dna, Genetics, Entrepreneurship, Business, Hormones, Business News

If you made your first sale while still in diapers and your lemonade stand was a substantial contributor to the family income, you've likely been call...

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The Non-Profit "Business"

Brian Dickie | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Business Management, Non-for-Profit, Harvard Business School, Business, Chicago Opera Theater, Economic Recovery, Economic Recession, Chicago News
Brian Dickie

Now the business schools are having a heart-searching reassessment, and putting a little more emphasis on that great subject of ethics. Or so we are told.

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Indian Companies Innovating On Products Aimed At The Poor

wsj.com | ERIC BELLMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: India, Tata Nano, Pureit, Tata Motors, Innovation, Business, Business News

For the farmer who wants to save for the future, one Indian entrepreneur has developed what is, in effect, a $200 portable bank branch. For the villag...

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Health Care Bill's Winners And Losers: Drug Makers To Benefit, Insurers Brace For Hit

Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY and GREG HITT | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Market, White House, Losers, Obama, Business, Legislation, Pharma, Politics, Scorecard, Negotiations, Baucus, Wellpoint, Aetna, Novartis, Pfizer, Health Care, Wall Street, Reid, United Health, Stocks, Merck, Winners, Insurance Industry, Senate, Profits, Health Care Reform, Health Insurers, Dodd, Medicaid, Bill, Medco Health, Politics News

The drug industry stands to gain in a health-care overhaul by getting tens of millions of newly insured customers, while insurance companies -- especi...

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Are You Making the Most of the First Six Months?

Jon Younger | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, PNC Financial, JP Morgan, Employees, Financial Services, Recruiting, Human Resources, Accenture, Business, Management, Business News
Jon Younger

How do you make the most of the opportunity to bind new employees to the organization through the ways you induct, orient and initially support an employee's cultural integration?

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Financial Crisis Worked Out Well for Goldman Sachs

Alan Schram | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson, Business, Wall Street, Executive Compensation, Business News
Alan Schram

Now that Goldman Sachs is a regular commercial bank, it actually trades more. This makes sense: if the US Treasury covered my losses, I would also be happy to take major risks.

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Bruce Wasserstein 1947-2009

Robert Teitelman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Lazard, The Deal, Bruce Wasserstein, M&A, Media, Business, New York Magazine, Deals, Business News
Robert Teitelman

The Bruce we knew was an enthusiast of the media and for journalism. It's been said often enough, but Bruce came up with the idea for a national newspaper to cover deals.

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Fifteen Amazing Stock Market Charts

Henry Blodget | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Business, Stock Market, Graphs, Bull Market, Bear Market, Business News
Henry Blodget

There's no way to really understand the meaning of the investment mantra "stocks for the long run," unless you understand how long the long run can really be. And how long can it be? Long.

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It's Time to Get Down And Creative With Dr. Tina Seelig

Dr. Hendrie Weisinger | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: The Balanced Life, Business, Technology, Work, The Giving Life, Living News
Dr. Hendrie Weisinger

Every once in a while, I find a book that I am compelled to recommend. This time, it is What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20, by Dr. Tina Seelig.

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Authentic Persuasion - The Art of Woo

Jen Grisanti | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Success, Negotiation, Small Business, Deal-Making, Business, Influence, Persuasion, Richard Shell, Mario Moussa, The Art of Woo, Books News
Jen Grisanti

In the book The Art of Woo authors G. Richard Shell and Mario Moussa give very insightful tips on how to authentically woo through self-awareness.

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No Women Featured in NY Comedy Festival! No Joke!

Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Women, New York, Media, The Daily Show, Business, Joy Behar, Style, Entertainment, Barbara Walters, Comedy Central, Living, Saturday Night Live, Women Comedians, The Stephen Colbert Show, Comedy, Conan O'Brien, White House Correspondents Association, Vanity Fair, The View, Emmy Awards, Wanda Sykes, Friars Club, Jay Leno, Tom Shales, New York Comedy Festival, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Helen Thomas, David Letterman, Craig Ferguson, E!, Kristin Wiig, Sherri Shepherd, Comediennes, Whoppi Goldberg, Chelsea Handler, Impact, Lifetime, Women's History, Oxygen, Joan Rivers, Lizz Winstead, Fox Network, Forbes, Entertainment News
Beverly Wettenstein

The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a rare and endangered species. Only seven of the 81 writers were women.

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Transformation Is About the Little Things

Jon Younger | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Workforce, Human Resources, Employee, Business, Management, Business News
Jon Younger

It's the little things that make or break the ability to attract, develop and retain excellent performers. For example, it doesn't take much budget to hold lunch and learn sessions.

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WSJ: The 'Democratization Of Credit' Is Over

Wall Street Journal | S. MITRA KALITA | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit, Lending, Economy, Banks, Consumers, Business, Recession, Business News

The recession has forced a financial reckoning for Americans across the income spectrum. The pressure is especially acute for the low-income Americans...

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Hey, Who Doesn't Want to Be a Millionaire?

Joel Epstein | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Millionaire, Gm, Latin America, Philanthropy, Donating to Charity, Recession, Foundation, Los Angeles, Business, New York, Kansas City, Goldman Sachs, Charitable Organizations, Charity, 2016 Olympics, Money, Charitable Giving, Rio De Janeiro, Coke, Uncharitable, Capitalism, Millionaires in Latin America, Millionaires, Wealth and Charity, Business News
Joel Epstein

According to a recent report the number of millionaire households around the world fell from around 11 million in 2007 to 9 million last year. The only region going the other way -- Latin America.

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