business ethics
Would you return it?
NEW YORK (AP) -- A taxi driver returned a black bag carrying 31 diamond rings to a passenger who earlier had given him a 30-cent tip on an $11 ride. (CNN.com)
Richard Brisebois
Business Communication
Your elevator speech... the final frontier...
We all remember the opening lines of our favorite TV shows. Well, idea-sandbox recommends that we find inspiration in them for our elevator speech. It can be challenging to boil down what you do into a short blurb... For inspiration, I suggest paying attention to the 30-second narrations
Ling- English
Survey: Money not meaningful
About 62 percent of small-business employees think pay is better at larger companies (and 72 percent think benefits are better), but they stay at their jobs anyway, according to the survey of 474 employees at both large and small firms. Small-company workers cite a better working environment as
Business Communication
Dismissal the Wal-Mart way
Julie Roehm got a call from her boss's assistant at 12:15 p.m. on Dec. 4. J. John Fleming, then chief of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s marketing department, wanted a word with his senior vice-president. Walking to Fleming's office at the Bentonville
board of directors
Director pay up 12%
Average board-member compensation climbed about 12 percent in 2006, to a mean of $160,439, according to a new study from Institutional Shareholder Services. Median pay increased 10.5 percent, to $143,123. The increase was driven by a 16 percent rise in the value of equity-based compensation,
Odds and Ends
Procrastination problem solved
The formula is: Utility = E x V/(ΓD), where Utility means your desire to perform a task; E is the expectation of completing a task; V is the value of finishing; the Greek letter gamma, Γ, is sensitivity to delay; and D is delay, or time until finish and rewards
business ethics
Looking for work from work
In workplaces where high-speed broadband Internet access is typically available and 60-hour workweeks are commonplace, many employees believe that the office is the most convenient or effective place to do a job search. And people who are unhappy with their jobs sometimes believe that they are entitled to
Work and the workplace
Super Bowl is a sure loss of productivity
from csmonitor.com Every 10 minutes workers spend discussing the likely outcome of Sunday's Super Bowl on company time will cost the nation's employers as much as $162.1 million in lost productivity, the outplacement specialist Challenger, Gray & Christmas estimates. And that doesn't
Ben Stein
Ben Stein's wisdom
When I see what the top dogs at all too many corporations are now doing to that trust, I feel queasy. Outrageous — yes, obscene — pay. Greedy backdating of stock options, which in my opinion is straight-up theft. Managers buying assets from their trustors, the stockholders, at pennies on the
Persons
Confessing 20 years after the fact
A man who said his tormented conscience led him to confess to an unsolved 1987 slaying faces up to 20 years in prison now with a jury's conviction of murder. (CNN.com) We can try and forget them or pretend that they never happened, but our actions and
Teaching and Learning
How to recognize plagiarism
An excellent website at Indiana University at Bloomington with cases, examples, resources and a 10-question test.
meetings
Effective meetings
A good place to start... with practical tips and even some fun stuff.