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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Forget the sales act: Here are the five rules to closing a deal with confidence. Obviously, if you don’t close deals, you aren’t going to make any money
Read More »Toss the Motivation Book
If your business strategy includes financial targets, sales goals, or mission statements, you're doing it all wrong. Ever wonder why your company's objectives seem so elusive and your strategy so hard to deliver on
Read More »Toss the Motivation Book
If your business strategy includes financial targets, sales goals, or mission statements, you're doing it all wrong.
Read More »When ‘happily ever after’ lasts days, not years
Kim Kardashian’s brief 72-day marriage has roused public indignation, but sometimes, women find themselves wanting to end marriages before they’ve hardly begun. When they do, experts say, the situation calls for sensitivity and candor.
Read More »How Bad Plans And "Good Ideas" Ruin Meetings
Does your company plan things correctly? Or are meetings unproductive due to poor planning? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Getting Things Done (2001) by David Allen.
Read More »The Evolution of Overconfidence, as explained by a shot of Jager and the boys from Jersey Shore
Sci saw this paper being tweeted around the internets recently, a paper on the evolution of overconfidence . It seemed like a really interesting and cool paper, and I was kind of surprised that no one had covered it
Read More »The Secret To Dealing With Difficult People: It’s About You
Each of us has a lens through which we see the world, but we have the power to view the world through other lenses.
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Read More »Eddies in Einstein’s formula
(PhysOrg.com) -- How does a microscopic particle behave in a liquid?
Read More »Keeping Your Ego in Check
John Vechey, co-founder of PopCap Games, talks about the importance of trusting employees that are smarter than you at the Inc. 500|5000 Conference. What happens when you disagree with the person you've appointed to lead your company
Read More »Hitting The Fan: Clever Teasers For Al Gore’s Day Of Climate Reality
In preparation for the 24-hour marathon of climate change presentations, the Climate Reality Project has prepared a few short videos to amusingly communicate how dire the situation is. In preparation for Al Gore and adman Alex Bogusky's "24 Hours of Climate Reality," their new organization The Climate Reality Project produced these teaser videos, designed to show us just how close our planet is to a very bad situation.
Read More »Video: Firefighters battle wildfires in Texas, Okla.
Firefighters are battling against wildfires in Texas and Oklahoma. Scott Pelley speaks with Jason Allen of CBS Station KTVT in Dallas-Fort Worth who is near the fire line to find out if firefighters are getting a handle on the situation.
Read More »The Best Type of Leader
Author John Warrillow explains the difference between the "dissociative architect" and "sleeves-rolled-up" types of leaders. Which leadership style is best? A friend of mine described the experience of slipping into a "K-hole" after partying on too much ketamine, a medical anaesthetic that can be snorted as a drug.
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