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Will it improve company culture?

Will it improve company culture?

Still trying to tap your network for favors before you've offered anything yourself? Big mistake.

Whenever I ask managers and business leaders about their most pressing problems at work, I’ve been a bit surprised to hear from so many who say they are struggling with a “bad boss” or a hopelessly toxic work environment. A bad boss is a big problem, and not easily fixed

The business plan is the easy part. Managing and leading a team? That's where the learning curve gets very steep.

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As CEO of Novartis, Europe's second largest drug company, the former competitive swimmer Joe Jimenez won't rest until he snags the top spot. The key: innovative products, expansion into new markets, and good old-fashioned team building. As a teenager, Joe Jimenez spent four hours a day, seven days a week in the pool training for swim meets

Eleventh-hour negotiations aren't uncommon in Washington, D.C., but the most recent duel over the debt limit seems especially tense. Unless its debt ceiling is raised from its current $14.3 trillion, or its budget is miraculously balanced, the U.S. will default on its financial obligations on August 2, leading to a credit downgrade, delayed government payments and other serious economic troubles.

I’ve been researching the oil and gas industry lately. This industry has a negative stigma attached to it as being very environmentally insensitive. Granted, oil spills and gas leaks aren’t helping the industry’s image.

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday on the latest plan to shore up our country's finances and jumpstart the economy: A new tax-repatriation holiday. The holiday would involve drastically lowering taxes on corporate profits for companies that choose to bring assets back into this country. (It's common practice for big companies to store most of their cash in tax havens in order to avoid paying the 35 percent corporate profit tax

Sachin Agarwal, the founder of Posterous, a blog hosting service, got bogged down in the numbers as his company grew. Then, he writes ( blog.posterous.com ), he got smart: He hired a CFO. "Last month our new CFO came into the office and I transferred all the finance knowledge that was in my head over to her.

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Recently, I was interviewed about entrepreneurship by Business Insider.

Microsoft today sued Barnes & Noble, Foxconn, and Invantec over patent infringement stemming from their use of Android-based e-reader and tablet devices. In the suit, Microsoft alleges Barnes & Noble and its device manufacturers, Foxconn and Invantec, have violated patents related to functionality embedded in the Android OS devices. “The Android platform infringes a number of Microsoft’s patents, and companies manufacturing and shipping Android devices must respect our intellectual property rights," said Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's corporate VP and deputy general counsel of intellectual property and licensing, in a statement