It's not uncommon to hear of people who have decided to use a prepaid credit card as a tool for managing their personal finances. But did you know that prepaid credit cards are replacing busine…
Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. – Unattributed
Business rules of thumb can be immensely helpful for quick business analys…
The devil used Eve to temp Adam with an apple oh so many years ago changing life as they knew it. We are tempted every day by others and by our own weak nature. I'm thinking about all of the New…
Remember Cher in Moonstruck when Nicholas Cage tells her he loves her?
She slaps him and says "Snap out of it!"
Well, sometimes I need a slap in the face too – a reality check. And since …
On a conversational level, we take "lying" to mean speaking an untruth, overtly saying something that is not the case. Webster's first definition is, "to make an untrue statement wi…
No. 27
From: RadioShack
To: RadioShack employees
Subject: Your former job
In August 2006, RadioShack fires 400 staffers via e-mail. Affected employees receive a message that reads, "The work …
A disappearing warehouse.
A software glitch caused the warehouse to vanish, not from physical view, but from the watchful eyes of a well-known retailer's automated distribution system.
Goods d…
With more than 2200 companies possibly engaged in backdating, scores of shareholder derivative suits are in the making.
The scandal has resulted in high executive churn, with more than 30 senior exe…
Christian & Timbers today released its 2006 CEO Stick Rate Report in the continuing glare of investigation that originated with Sarbanes-Oxley legislation in 2002. "Stick Rate" is define…
How do you react when an employee disagrees with your point of view?
It can be tempting to assume that you've heard that argument before and to counter it before the employee has finished explain…
