- My Employee Expects Us All to Attend Her Destination Wedding
... and two other tricky workplace dilemmas.
- Report: More Than 4 Million Older Workers Have Left the Workforce Since 2020
The silver tsunami is already making waves. And businesses in the trade and service industries will soon find it even harder to find workers, according to a new report.
- Costco Is Rolling Out a Brand New Feature That Its Most Loyal Customers Will Love
We laugh because it's funny, and we laugh because it's true.
- Staying Composed Under Pressure: How Leaders Set the Tone in Tough Situations
Pressure can reveal a lot about your leadership style.
- Jalen Hurts Wanted to Talk to His Teammate After He Made a Huge Mistake in Last Night's Game. It’s a Lesson in Leadership
After a heartbreaking loss to the Falcons, Eagles running back Saquon Barkley felt horrible. But Hurts told him exactly what he needed to hear.
- Why Company Growth Rate Equals Career Opportunity Rate
Your company's growth rate is a valuable talent retention tool.
- Apple Is All Ears: Making Hearing Aids Affordable
Hearing loss affects millions of people, but hearing aids have been expensive and sales have been dominated by a few companies. The new AirPods are going to challenge the status quo.
- How Crossfit Became the New Power Lunch
Two-hour leisurely lunches are over. Today, sweat networking reigns as the power move for hard-charging entrepreneurs.
- Amazon's CEO Just Declared the Era of Hybrid Work Finally Over
The company is going back to how things were before the pandemic.
- Not Sure What to Focus on in Life? Richard Branson and Beyoncé Both Suggest the 'Theory of Circles'
When you're not sure how to invest your time and energy, the 'theory of circles' can guide you.
- 7 Strategies to Develop an Innovative Culture Within Your Business
If your business team is not continually innovating, it is falling behind the new competition.
- Stay Calm and Conquer Chaos: Effective Strategies for Life Changes
You will always be changing, so accept the new things and get better at them. In short, grow.
- Your Company's Slack Could Soon Get an AI Upgrade
Slack parent company Salesforce is integrating artificially intelligent 'agents' into the messaging platform. Here's why.
- Forget Drones. Soon, Helicopters Will Fly Themselves
Hector Xu founded Rotor to transform helicopters into giant drones that can carry out tasks such as crop-dusting and aerial firefighting.
- A New Supreme Court Term Could Mean More Changes to U.S. Regulatory Power
Rollback efforts fromconservatives and business interests may further weaken federal agencies' power to impose rules, or bring securities fraud charges.
- Amazon Drivers Join Teamsters Union in New York
Hundreds of drivers at three locations want the company to recognize their union and negotiate a contract.
- Research Finds Internal Company Competition Stifles Innovation
While competition serves to increase employee effort and drive to reach objectives before rivals, it also reduces communication flows vital to greater innovation in results that companies hope to benefit from.
- Boeing Freezes Hiring, Considers Furloughs as Strike Continues
The beleaguered plane maker is conserving cash and preparing to delay purchase orders as its 30,000 union workers remain on picket lines.
- Target Announces Plan for 100,000 Seasonal Hires
Even projections of slow holiday sales growth still have the retailer planning to staff up stores, warehouses and other points on its supply chain.
- The Las Vegas Economy Shows a Path to Fed's Soft Landing
On the ground in Nevada, the balance between demand for labor and the need for interest rate cuts seems steady, according tobusiness owners, labor leaders, and economists there.
- The Flappy Bird Game Takes Flight Again, With No Input From Its Creator
The saga around a simple, delightfully great smartphone game is a lesson in the potential consequences of achieving a runaway hit as a small business, and in keeping hold of valuable IP rights.
- Biden’s New Tariffs on Imports From China Aim to Make Shein, Temu Orders Costlier
Measures tightening customs waivers on low-value shipments of foreign goods going directly to U.S. consumers mayundercut allegedly unfair cheaper pricing by Chinese e-commerce companies Shein and Temu.
- Will Rate Cuts Arrive Fast Enough to Ensure Fed's 'Soft Landing?'
The Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee meets this week and is likely to announce lower interest rates, but business owners wonder when they'll see benefits.
- TikTok Court Case Opens in Washington, D.C.
The proceedings could spell the end of the popular social media platform in the U.S., where a ban based on alleged national security concerns could take effect in January.
- Experts Warn OpenAI's Chatty New Model May Be Too Smart
'So, how was your day?' is an innocent bit of human small talk. But when ChatGPT asks you, it has unsettling overtones, since the question shows how smart AIs are now that they have 'memories.'
- Former OceanGate Employees to Speak With Coast Guard About Fatal Sub Accident
A hearing on the 2023 implosion of the Titan submersible as it descended to the wreck of the Titanic isa crucial part of the investigation into the accident that killed five people.
- Should I Promote an Employee Who Doesn't Get Along With Co-Workers?
And two other tricky workplace dilemmas.
- Beyond Bedside Manner: How Physician CEOs Get It Done
NYU Langone CEO Robert I. Grossman brings a radiologist's and researcher's eye to the corner office.
- Pork Prices Are Exploding in China, but Inflation Has Barely Budged in the World's Second-Largest Economy
Beijing is battling deflation, the opposite problem of the U.S.
- 9 Entrepreneurs Admired the Most by Inc. 5000 CEOs
To get inspired, leaders of Inc. 5000 companies look to entrepreneurs ranging from Bill Gates to Sara Blakely to Mark Cuban.
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