Beware making verbal promises

  • October 28, 2011

Employers that make verbal promises of workplace job security in order to lure job applicants or retain employees leave themselves open to claims of breach of an...

Jeff Kindler: Pfizer’s bitter pill

  • October 27, 2011

The downfall of a prominent CEO offers a cautionary tale about the need for self-awareness and continual self-improvement: Jeff Kindler was forced to resign a little...

Freedom of speech: Does it apply at work?

  • October 18, 2011

In private-sector workplaces, em­­ployees do not have First Amendment rights, as public employees do. But certain laws do provide em­­ployees with some...

10 rules to reverse the email spiral

  • October 12, 2011

Chris Anderson, who runs the high-profile TED conference, believes we need to focus on limiting the flow of email, rather than focusing on how to organize and file all...

3M sets example of open innovation

  • September 15, 2011

3M is indisputably one of the world’s most innovative companies. How does it keep churning out smart products? Fred J. Palensky, 3M’s chief technology...

James Dyson’s biggest and best mistake

  • September 14, 2011

Anyone who has used a Dyson vacuum knows just how revolutionary it is. Yet its inventor, James Dyson, didn’t find fertile ground for his idea easily. His biggest...

Remember the value of names

  • September 13, 2011

People’s names are for them the most important sound in the language. Take the case of business magnate Andrew Carnegie, who by the time he was age 10 had...