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The Arrogance of Fear and What to Do About It

Karen Luniw | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Neagle, Success, Fear Mongering, Change, Fear, Solutions, Hope, Recession Fears, Business, Luniw, Living News
Karen Luniw

Whether it's a reformed health care system, a new job, a new place to live or to solve a business problem -- in order to get something new, we have to change.

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We Planned for a Depression and Now it is Not Going To Happen

Paul David Walker | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Recession Fears, Recession Watch, Business, Ecnomic Meltdown, Home News
Paul David Walker

Could this be the beginning of a new rally? Should we start to buy stocks?

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The New Power Girls: Is the Credit Crunch Hurting Women Startups?

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Owning a Startup, Small Business, Women Founders, Female Founders, Women Startups, Women Entrepreneurs, Credit Crunch, The New Power Girls, Women in Business, Entrepreneurship, Business, Business News
Patricia Handschiegel

Today's new modern women entrepreneurs and executives know the power of networking and support. In fact, they live by it.

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Five Reasons for Consumer Caution

Jim Randel | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumers, Media, Spending, Investing, Jobless Rate, Economy, Financial Crisis, Business, Housing Crisis, Consumer Confidence, Consumer Spending, Business News
Jim Randel

The Great Recession may be technically ending, but I recommend that consumers proceed with caution.

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Microsoft's Ad In Poland Photoshops Black Man, But Keeps Asian Man, White Woman

Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Photoshop, Black Americans, Poland, Advertising, Microsoft, Asian Americans, Racism, Race, Business, African Americans, Business News

Doing business abroad sometimes requires companies to tweak their marketing strategies. Companies often swap idiomatic phrases or images in advertisem...

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5 Signs You Need a Career Reinvention

Nicole Williams | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Reinvention, Jobs, Career, Business, Work, Living News
Nicole Williams

When else will you have as little to lose, as much to gain, and a greater competitive edge over people who've already succumbed to their unfulfilled fates?

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What Makes Successful CEOs Tick?

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Success, Leadership, Mentors, Business, Talent, Malcolm Gladwell Outliers, Don Shula, Successful CEOs, Ceos, Malcolm Gladwell, CEO Traits, Business News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

What makes for uber-success? It is not sheer intellect, and it's not only social skill. It is, as Malcolm Gladwell defines talent, deliberate practice.

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The Human Element: Is Your Internship Program Helping or Hurting?

Jon Younger | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Jobs, Internships, Employees, Business, Recruiting, Management, Talent, Talent Pools, Strong Internship Programs, Ge, Internship Programs, Exxon Mobil, Enhancing Your Talent Pool, Interns, Business News
Jon Younger

A strong internship program is a powerful tool for attracting top talent; companies can build a strong relationship with schools or other talent pools. But they can also be a reputational WMD.

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How to Take Market Share Now

Paul David Walker | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Strategy, Business, Recession, Economy, Recession Fears, Business News
Paul David Walker

If you, your customers, and vendors survive and thrive during weak demand, you will rise together as demand increases, which it always does.

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9 Tricks for a Stress-Free Vacation (and Return)

Nicole Williams | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Living, Vacation, Business, Work, Stress, Relaxation Techniques, Obama Inauguration, Relaxation, Living News
Nicole Williams

While you're on vacation, try to put work out of your mind. The more quickly you're able to sink into vacation mode, the more you'll gain from your time away.

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Is Whole Foods Losing Its Sustainable Luster?

Rob Smart | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: John Mackey, Farms, Whole Foods, Retail, Conventional Food, Wal-Mart, Farmers, Food, Food Retail, Business, Pro Food, Farmers Market, Community Supported Agriculture, Industrial Food, Sustainable, Organic, Supermarkets, Food Cooperatives, Local, Green News
Rob Smart

Whole Foods' very presence in small regional markets undermines established relationships between regional food retailers and suppliers, including farmers, processors and related service providers.

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The WSJ Tries to Fix Our Mistakes

Robert Teitelman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Insider Trading, Wall Street, Economy, Media Maneuvers, Mistakes, Behavioral Finance, Personal Finance, Robert Teitelman, Business, Wall Street Journal, Risk, Business News
Robert Teitelman

Were we crazy to believe, or at least fear, that we were heading into a depression in December?

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Britain's New Royalty -- The Oil Potentates

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Lockerbie, Energy, President Hans-Rudolf Merz, David Miliband, World, Switzerland, Kenneth MacAskill, President Obama, Scotland, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Gordon Brown, Col.Muammar El-Qaddafi, Hannibal-Gaddafi, Great Britain, Robert Mueller, Oil, Libya, Royalty, U.S. Justice Department, British Aerospace System, Financial TImes, New York Times, Business, Terrorism, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Kowtowing to moneyed Middle Eastern and African oil interests may not be new, but as the release of the Lockerbie bomber shows, this has become Britain's new norm.

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The Biochemistry of Sales

Rick Foster | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Emotions, Relationships, Sales, Profitability, Biochemistry, Sales Relationships, Sales Customers, Selling, Happy Customers, Business, Happy, Happiness, Business News
Rick Foster

Any seasoned salesperson will describe a sales-positive customer in the following terms: relaxed, focused, high-trust, happy. The question is, can salespeople consciously create these biochemically-induced states?

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How to Put the Kibosh on a Friendship That Seems Doomed

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Friend, Friendship, Women, Living News, Aggressor, Exit Strategy, Aggressive, Reader Q&A, Kibosh, Relationship Advice, Female, Personal, Business, Professional, Networking, Irene S. Levine, Breaking Living News, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

How can I avoid hurting someone's feelings and maintain a relationship as a colleague when I don't want to be her friend?

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Mixing Public and Private Objections

Jim Randel | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Fannie Mae, Business, Fairness, Mortgages, Foreclosure, Tax Lien, Politics News
Jim Randel

Government gets into trouble when it expects private enterprise to do anything other than what its DNA requires: to make as much money as it can.

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The Perils of Being Governed

Saul Segan | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congressional Oversight, Government, Health Care Reform, Living, Business, Health Care, Spirituality, Politics, Media, Politics News
Saul Segan

The call for spirituality and the need to put aside selfishness and genuinely try to achieve the desired ends for the greatest of all concerned will result in a greater glory for America.

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How To Recharge Your Business Batteries

Jonathan Littman | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Soloist, Jonathan Littman, Recharge, Summer, Rowing, San Francisco, I Hate People, Boulder, Colorado, Vacation, Scull, Marc Hershon, Business, Living News
Jonathan Littman

Summer vacation is the ideal period during the year to take chances and have new experiences, the time and place to venture outside your regular life.

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United Airlines Ripping Consumers Off?

Michelle Renee | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business

Read More: United Airlines, Consumerism, Economy, Michelle Renee, Living, Consumer Rip Off, Business, Airlines, Businessweek, Fox Business Network, United Airlines Bad Customer Service, Lax, Business News
Michelle Renee

United Airlines is emerging from a bankruptcy filing and flying in the wrong direction when it comes to customer satisfaction. Robbing customers blind every chance they get is simply bad business.

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Retailers Try 1-Cent Sales In Hopes Of Luring Customers

latimes.com | Sandra M. Jones | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business

Read More: 1-Cent Sales, Economic Crisis, Economic Recovery, Retail, Business, Pennies, Retail Crisis, Recession, Penny Sales, Back to School, Back to School Sales, Business News

Dump out the coffee cans, car ashtrays and the bottom of your purse. The lowly penny, which almost was taken out of circulation three years ago, is ma...

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7 Facebook Status Updates Not to Make at Work

Nicole Williams | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Business, Facebook, Social Networking, Work, Bad Bosses, Blackberry, Social-Faux-Pas, Employees, Social Networking Addiction, Social Networking Sites, Good-Jobs, Lousy-Bosses, Ferris Bueller, Internet Politics, Facebook Status, Facebook Addiction, Crazy Bosses, Workplace Taboos, Living News
Nicole Williams

It's great if you have a fabulous job where you get to travel, get chauffeured around in fancy cars, and take meetings with bigwigs. But it's a lot cooler if you don't broadcast it.

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When Comedy Meets Workplace Diversity

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Abercrombie & Fitch, Insensitivity, Business, Workplace, Comedy, Multiculturalism, Diversity, Ruben Navarrette, Workplace Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, George Lopez, N-Word, Comedy Central, Stand-Up Comedy, Dave Chappelle, Workplace Taboos, Entertainment News
Natalie Holder-Winfield

The same slurs, epithets, and offensive language that comics use to get laughs can create disrespect in the workplace, school and in other social settings.

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BusinessWeek: 'Don't Worry, Be Happy'

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Wall Street, Optimism, Economy, Walt Disney Co., Bankers, Businessweek, McGraw-Hill Cos, Business, Auctions, Microsoft Corp., Media News
Yvette Kantrow

BusinessWeek announced it would put out an issue on "The Case for Optimism" this month, explaining it's just as rational to see the economic glass as half-full. It hasn't brightened my mood.

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Walmart, CVS, Best Buy, GMAC Among 8 Major Companies To Pull Ads From Glenn Beck Show

Huffington Post | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Fox News, Gmac, ColorOfChange.Org, Boycott, Media Maters, Racism, Glenn Beck, Business, Advertising, Barack Obama, Media News

Walmart, Best Buy, CVS, and GMAC are among eight major advertisers that have confirmed pulling their advertising from Fox News' "Glenn Beck" program i...

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Treehouse: A Creative Design Hub In Downtown Brooklyn

Piers Fawkes | Posted 09.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Education, Business, Work, Brooklyn, Freelance, New York News
Piers Fawkes

Housed in an eco-renovated office building, this shared workspace is open to creative businesses and freelancers who share sustainability as a core value.

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