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How do you rein in your lackluster marketing team?

Whether it's firing someone or telling an employee they have bad BO, Donna Flagg's cheat sheet will help you through it. Have you ever struggled over how to fire an employee?

We have plenty of reasons to complain. High unemployment, a frozen political system, an economy still struggling to get out of recession. Let's focus on the good stuff instead.

Mobile devices have completely changed the way we consume music. It wasn't so long ago that I would physically go to a store to browse for an album. Today, I can stream pretty much any song ever recorded on my smartphone, for free, anywhere I have access to the Internet

Put yourself in the mind of the customer: give them what they want and don't make them pay for it...right away.

Ever wonder what it would be like to remain quiet for an entire week? Not just less talking. I mean no talking.

There's a big misconception that to know the true value of something, you must track it, that success lays solely in the outcome of very specific numbers.

Playground Sessions is a new music learning system from BBH unit Zag. But its biggest lesson may be in how agencies are approaching new product development. Used to be the best an agency could do is build a rep as a stellar service provider

In the 1990s I had the opportunity to dine with the late musician Isaac Hayes, whose career fortunes had just made a stunning turnabout upward, which he attributed to Scientology. It was a glowing testimonial by a sincere follower of the Church, but is it evidence that Scientology works? Two recently published books argue that there is no science in Scientology, only quasireligious doctrines wrapped in New Age flapdoodle masquerading as science.

One of the best ways to make sure the wealthy's money benefits society is to make sure they don't waste it--so that they can give it away. That might be a bitter pill for #OccupyWallStreeters to swallow.

"The way we do business is going to change so fundamentally in the next 10 years," says Vaynerchuk.

The new reality for authors and publishers: Their books might tank, but thanks to Apple and Amazon, excerpts sold as "quick reads" and "singles" could be smash hits. Call it the Katy Perry-ization of literature

Because you can put gas in flex-fuel vehicles, and because you can't find ethanol anywhere, just putting clean cars on the roads hasn't meant cleaner emissions. Governments and corporations--big entities that have to move a lot of stuff and people around--buy a lot of cars and use a lot of gas. In 2009, these U.S.

As a design student in Detroit, Veronika Scott was keenly aware of the increasing numbers of homeless people suffering deeply during the relentless winters. At the tender age of 21, she created The Detroit Empowerment Plan not to solve homelessness, but to provide much-needed warmth to the city's 20,000 street dwellers

Every August, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance offers automobile admirers the opportunity to see the world’s best examples of motorized sculpture. Among the featured marques to be celebrated this year is the Ferrari 250 GTO, arguably the most desirable sports car ever made