Business Communication
Monty Python job interview
Silly... but perhaps the comic relief that you need after preparing for job interviews.
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Strategy
No prices: pay what you want
The Seattle Times has a story about a cafe at which Peretz admits that Terra Bite treads on shaky ground. He's got to attract enough paying customers to cover the cost of those who pay less or not at all. Peretz isn't worried that people will
leadership
Do you understand what I'm doing?
For six years, it was a perquisite that the Home Depot chief executive, Robert Nardelli, could not do without: a catered lunch for his top deputies, served daily on the 22nd floor of the company's headquarters in Atlanta. It is the kind of symbolic gesture that has come
Business Communication
Top 10 when NOT to email
We discuss this in class every term. Here is one author's list: 1. To communicate bad news, complaints or criticism 2. When you are seeking information that is not simple and straight-forward 3. When you are seeking approval on something that is involved or controversial 4. When
Credit card fraud
Identity theft top consumer fraud of 2006
Of the more than 670,000 consumer fraud complaints made to the Federal Trade Commission in 2006, identity theft was the biggest category of reported cases, accounting for 36 percent of calls.There are several types of ID theft, the most common and most easily fixed being credit card fraud,
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)
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