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Problem-Solving: What Your Style Says About You

Which problem-solving technique do you use? Here's four examples--as well as what each conveys about you and your company (for better or worse). As a business owner, employer, and customer, nothing irks me more than lousy problem-solving skills

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How to Squash Customer Complaints

Before you rush to defend yourself or fight back remember to put yourself in your customer's shoes. Customer complaints are inevitable. If you run a business that sells to the public no matter how great your goods or services are the old adage will eventually be proven true: You cannot please 100% of the people 100% of the time

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Video: Doctors dismiss vaccination refusers

There has been a lot of attention paid in recent years to parents who refuse to have their children immunized for fear that the vaccines could lead to autism. Now, more physicians are saying "no" to parents who won't immunize their child - in effect, firing their patients. Erica Hill reports, then Dr.

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The Philosophical Quandary of Work-Life Balance

Experts of all stripes offer tips on how to rethink the work-life juggle and escape stress. Here's why doing so is nearly impossible. Work-life balance is one of those problems that is so hard to solve in terms of concrete actions that we often try to get rid of the tension by creatively re-conceptualizing it

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Hublot’s Gold Invention

As long as humans have been forming gold into precious objects, goldsmiths have struggled to offset the metal’s softness. Traditionally, this issue has been addressed by alloying gold with other metals like silver, copper, and palladium (the percentages of which yield the familiar karat system for grading gold purity).

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Pen Perfection

In the early 20th century, Japanese fountain pen maker Namiki was faced with a dilemma; merchants proudly displayed the company’s pens in shop windows, but they also complained that the pens’ vibrant colors were spoiled by constant exposure to sunlight. To address the issue, the company turned to the traditional ...

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Toss the Bad Apple Employee

One bad employee can quickly turn a positive working environment into a divisive and negative atmosphere. The comedian Larry Miller once quipped "I don't understand couples that break up and get back together—especially couples who divorce and remarry. That's like pouring milk on a bowl of cereal, tasting it, and saying, 'This milk is sour

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