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April 23, 2010 at 9:54 am
There are some people on Wall Street who want me to say Wall Street right or wrong, and I'm not going to do it. Clearly they did a lot of things wrong. Too many Wall Street ... (
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April 22, 2010 at 11:44 pm
Dana Carney of Columbia University School of Business has proved that, indeed, powerful people are better liars. Those of us with a background in rhetoric and nonverbal research have ... (
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April 22, 2010 at 9:35 am
The Labor Department said in its weekly report this morning that initial claims for jobless benefits fell by 24,000 to 456,000 in the week ended April 17. The drop was in line ... (
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April 20, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Recently in coaching conversations with several new managers, I found myself thinking about Harvard's David McClelland and his findings about managers. In his now classic research ... (
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April 18, 2010 at 8:30 am
This is basically an FYI post: I doubt that I could write an article on women and the pay/career issues conundrum without screwing up, getting accused of chauvinism or making ... (
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April 16, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Sharon Begley, a superb science writer and senior editor of Newsweek, has a recent article on an issue I've been curious about for years: Why scientists are losing the PR wars. ... (
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April 16, 2010 at 7:43 am
At a recent town hall meeting, Oklahamo Sen. Tom Coburn called Nancy Pelosi a "nice lady," but was greeted with jeers and hisses. His response?
Come on now. She ... (
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April 15, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Initial unemployment claims for the week ending April 10 were up and conflicted. The advance figure was 484,000, an increase of 24,000 from the previous week's unrevised figure ... (
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April 15, 2010 at 1:27 pm
From entry level to the most senior executive, today’s employees are being forced to make complex decisions and make them faster and far more often than their 20th century predecessors. ... (
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April 14, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Sometime in the near future Mr. Obama will be nominating a Supreme Court Justice to take the vacancy left by Justice Stevens. Once again you'll be hearing all the malarkey ... (
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April 13, 2010 at 10:49 pm
I had doubts about writing this third blog relating to my experience of grief. I'm pretty cynical about grieving in public and using tragedy as an appeal. I much prefer ... (
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April 12, 2010 at 1:23 pm
In my recent post on unemployment claims, I noted that 160,000 new jobs were added last week but that nearly 50,000 were part-time census takers. Nothing to write home about. ... (
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April 10, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Many firms are using credit checks as a means of weeding out potential problem employees (translate that, thieves). Of course, the major credit bureaus are selling credit histories ... (
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April 8, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Differences between parties are often small. Democrats want to spend more and don't want to raise taxes, except on high earners. Republicans want to reduce taxes but don't ... (
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April 8, 2010 at 1:48 pm
The Department of Labor reported the following stats for the week ending April 3: seasonally adjusted initial claims were 460,000, an increase of 18,000 from the previous ... (
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April 6, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Whether you're a Gen-Yer or even a Boomer, Americans continue to grow increasingly unhappy at work. A January press release from the Conference Board surveyed 5,000 U.S. households ... (
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April 5, 2010 at 4:10 pm
A recent statement by David Brooks in his article, The Sandra Bullock Trade, deals directly, though unstated, with an exceedingly common problem faced by workers and executives ... (
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April 5, 2010 at 12:09 am
One of the more intriguing assessments of a politican that I've read in some time was Lexington's analysis of Nancy Pelosi in the March 20th edition of the Economist.
The ... (
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April 3, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Forget everything you think you know about genes, talent, and intelligence. In recent years, a mountain of scientific evidence has emerged suggesting a completely new paradigm: ... (
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April 1, 2010 at 10:06 am
The update on unemployment figures continue to look good in spite of lay-offs.
For the week ending March 27, the figure for adjusted initial claims was 439,000, a decrease ... (
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From Brainware
April 1, 2010 at 12:17 am
Most of my clients understand that their work future and long-term employability is tied to the quality of their expertise. As a result many continuously work to build that ... (
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From Brainware
March 31, 2010 at 8:17 am
All of us, the media and the newspapers have our own bias. I'm always learning about my own bias, trying to understand it, and questioning its validity. I read different ... (
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From Brainware
March 29, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Over the past year we've been subjected to an awful lot of political noise, especially in the past few weeks. Far more than usual, what with tea parties, House GOP egging on ... (
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March 28, 2010 at 5:33 pm
I’m excited to learn that more than 3,000 visitors have read my post, How to be brilliant, since last Sunday. That post grew out of David Shenk’s new book, The Genius ... (
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March 27, 2010 at 6:33 pm
The March 22 issue of Time has a thoughtful article on failure by Megan McArdle, the business and economics editor of the Atlantic. The catchy subtitle reveals the direction ... (
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