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Merisant CEO Paul Block says rather than leave innovation and inspiration to a whim, structure your company and empower employees to think toward the future. The assumption that inspiration only requires people in a room and a conversation is completely false. To channel inspiration and bring innovation to a company, you need a logical structure and organization.

A new website and mobile app looks at your purchases and determines the amount of forced labor that's gone into everything you own. The number may surprise you.

By now you probably know that Netflix is splitting its business into two parts: its digital streaming business (retains the name Netflix) and its DVD mailing business, which was its original business (to be called Qwikster). If you haven't read Reed's explanation of this split make sure you read it (of course, after you're done with this post here . It's simply brilliant.

It's 10 am. Do you know what your telecommuter is doing? Does "working from home" mean "hardly working"?

We installed and tested out a very early build of Windows 8 so you don't have to. Here's what's notable and productive in this version.

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Have you ever been primed?

A mother's attempt to save her son spotlights holes in the Family and Medical Leave Act: It doesn't apply to businesses with fewer than 50 employees. Claudia Rendon , a 41-year-old Philadelphia mother, says she was fired from her job in a school admissions office after she took time off to donate a kidney to her son. Rendon's employer, Aviation Institute of Maintenance, put her back on salary Tuesday after a media firestorm .

Gov. Rick Snyder plans to direct doctors in Michigan to begin monitoring the body weight of their young patients and provide the data to a new state registry, in one of the most extensive government efforts to address the growing problem of pediatric obesity, the Associated Press has learned.

Whether you need to log sales calls or keep track of business cards, there's an app to make it easier to get out of the office and into the field.

In 24 hours, 80 developers needed to create the most innovative video prototypes possible. Here's a look at the hackathon's clear winners. It's Hour 27 of Hackday.tv , a two-day contest organized by Shelby.tv to develop a new wave of video and TV technology, yet the contestants remain calm, chipper, and awake

Want your files accessible online, but don't like the idea of not keeping a local copy? These tools let you sync and collaborate, but also give you offline copies and peace of mind. It's not that hard to combine cloud accessibility with just-in-case offline practicality.

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From the office Christmas party to friending employees on social media, here are nine new and old etiquette rules you need to commit to memory. In that corner office, you’ll find yourself balancing concerns about payroll and the supply chain with concerns about being liked by your employees and customers

We live in a time of two economies.