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Rather than handing out an annual cash bonus, companies are realizing that shorter-term incentive structures do more to motivate employees, as well as reward them for a job well done.
The founder and CEO of Facebook is hesitant over making his company public because he doesn't want innovation to depend on the whims of stockholders' interest in short term gains.
Be bold in the face of unanimous decisions, says entrepreneur and author Margaret Heffernan. Neuroscience, sociology and business meetings underscore her point.
In our tough economic times, some are drawn to the stability purchasing a franchise can offer. But they are not immune to difficulties. Here's how some franchises are getting on.
Year-end performance reviews are meant to help organizational goals and advance people's careers but often the have the opposite effect of ramping up anxiety and tanking morale.
PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing special clothing used by US military personnel. PETMAN balances itself as it walks, squats and does calisthenics. PETMAN simulates […]
Has the Internet elevated political conversation by increasing interaction between average citizens? Or is it plunging the country into an abyss of partisanship and ignorance?
Happy winter solstice, everyone! As you doubtless already know, today is the shortest and darkest day of the year (assuming you live in the northern hemisphere). Ancient people, who were […]
Astrology is condemned in the Bible as pagan foolishness, sinful idolatry, even the handiwork of demons. Yet according to the Gospel of Matthew, the magi learned of the baby Jesus' existence from a star!
Texting while driving was only the tip of the iceberg. As smart phones, tablets and other mobile gadgets make it possible to interact with tiny little screens wherever we go, […]
Jay Cost, one of our best politcal bloggers, told us at Berry College a few weeks ago that what's wrong with the current system used by our political parties to […]
If you want to understand Occupy Wall Street and the frustration, rage and sadness that drive it, you could do worse than to watch White Christmas. That's the 1954 confection […]
By lacing electronic chips with microcapsules filled with liquid metal, researchers have created circuits that repair themselves when they become unusable due to cracks or damages.
When did the world turn so “inappropriate?” It seems to be getting more so by the year. Inappropriate’s already appeared 26,200,000 times in 2011 on Google-indexed material. In 2010, it […]