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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
Read More »Highest honors for quantum computer pioneer
Experimental physicist Rainer Blatt from the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Innsbruck, Austria, will receive the Stern-Gerlach Medal of the German Physical Society. The medal will be presented by Germany's Research Minister Anette Schavan in Berlin on Tuesday 27 March 2012.
Read More »Write a Better Executive Summary
Executive summaries seem simple--until you get them wrong. Make sure you're following this simple outline. The most important part of every sales proposal is the executive summary–but many people in sales get it completely wrong
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 »Mobile Devices Lead To A Stronger Connection To News Brands: Study
A new study finds that mobile devices, more than social networks, are driving the revolution in digital news consumption. The newspaper isn’t dead, it’s just gone mobile.
Read More »Researchers develop blueprint for nuclear clock accurate over billions of years
A clock accurate to within a tenth of a second over 14 billion years the age of the universe is the goal of research being reported this week by scientists from three different institutions. To be published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the research provides the blueprint for a nuclear clock that would get its extreme accuracy from the nucleus of a single thorium ion.
Read More »6 Ways BlackBerry Can Become Relevant Again
Are there any die-hard "CrackBerry" fans anymore? What RIM must do to win back the business crowd
Read More »So You Lost Your Biggest Customer …
Use these 5 simple steps to win back a customer who has jumped ship to another vendor.
Read More »Just in Time for St. Patrick’s Day: Top 5 Irish Brands
Luck of the Irish? Think again
Read More »Greenland Ice Melt Seen at Lower Temperatures
By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - The complete melt of the Greenland ice sheet could occur at lower global temperatures than previously thought, a study in the journal Nature Climate Change showed on Sunday, increasing the threat and severity of a rise in sea level. Substantial melting of land ice could contribute to long-term sea level rise of several meters, potentially threatening the lives of millions of people.
Read More »Survey Says Americans Support Keystone XL Pipeline
Survey says the majority of Americans who have heard about the Keystone XL pipeline project support it. According to a recent report published by the Pew Research Center, 2/3 of individuals with some prior knowledge of the pipeline believe that the U.S. government should approve its being built.
Read More »Living Life Unplugged: EarTop Technologies
Babson College students Ketan Rahangdale and Jaiyu Ni are using the latest designs and cutting-edge technologies to create wireless headphones and devices. What happens when you take a deejay and cross him with a technical guru?
Read More »Flake-Proof Your Next Event: trueRSVP
Fei Xiao and Anna Sergeeva, two undergrads at the University of Southern California, are building a tool to help event planners get better attendance. Sick of people flaking out on your events?
Read More »What Good Bosses Do With Bad Apples
This is the second in a series excerpted from a new chapter in the paperback version of Good Boss, Bad Boss , a New York Times bestseller by Robert Sutton .
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