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It's great that your employees are passionate about what they do. Until they disagree.
Read More »Google Search Change: Time to Worry?
Google's adding more semantic features to its search engine. Here's a reality check on what it might mean for your business.
Read More »Joy: An Underrated Business Skill
I love smiling, laughing, and the color yellow. Yes, I'm a joyful person - and a CEO. Here's how you too can find joy and use it as a powerful business asset.
Read More »How to Sell Yourself: 6 Tricks
In every sales situation, your No. 1 job is to sell yourself to the customer. Here's how
Read More »5 New Apps & Tech Tools to Try
Dozens of new gadgets and Web services promise to boost your business. Here are five that just might deliver. Dozens of new apps, gadgets, and online services are vying for your attention.
Read More »Fake Avastin shipper tied to Canadadrugs.com
According to the FDA, it's illegal for pharmacies based in Canada or other countries to ship prescription drugs into the U.S..
Read More »How To Make Your Vendors Love You
Need your vendors to go the extra mile?
Read More »55-Hour Week? You’re Wasting Time
Research shows that consistently working more than 40 hours a week is simply unproductive. For many in the entrepreneurship game, long hours are a badge of honor. Starting a business is tough, so all those late nights show how determined, hard working and serious about making your business work you are, right
Read More »Video: Fake Avastin trail leads to Barbados
Phony vials of the life saving cancer drug Avastin have turned up in as many as 19 medical clinics in the U.S. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian speaks with the man responsible for the shipments who feels he has broken no laws
Read More »Fake Avastin importer claims he broke no laws
CBS News' Armen Keteyian talks to Tom Haughton, the man responsible for bringing counterfeit cancer drug into America
Read More »Luxury resorts rebound from bankruptcy
What happens when developers conceive grand plans and run smack into the realities of the Great Recession? In the case of the 280-room Palmyra Resort, a luxury property in Montego Bay, Jamaica, once valued at $150 million, the property ends up on the auction block.
Read More »Marketing From The Other End Of The Funnel
Traditionally, new product marketing assumes first-time purchases arise from an orderly chain of events. The effective commercial starts the engine turning by generating brand awareness, which begets interest, desire, and finally consumer action, with planned purchases popping out the other end.
Read More »Walmart To Host Angry Birds Clue Hunt, Aziz Ansari Launches Online Comedy Show, Google Puts $5 In Your Google Wallet
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Zynga Buys OMGPOP
Read More »9 Reasons To Choose A Corporate Job Over A Startup
Startups can be amazing places to work, and the euphoria surrounding them has a high degree of contagion. But future leaders have unique lessons to learn by working for larger, more established companies as well
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