To achieve a purpose-fueled, engaged workforce, you should resist a one-size-fits-all approach to inspiring your employees. Instead, make an effort to help each worker recognize the importance of his or her job and how it contributes to the company’s success.
Know What Your Customers (Really) Do Best
Customers are more valuable than the money they spend. They can help grow your company, whether they buy more or not. Here are three things your customers can give you:
The Average Canadian Is Now Richer Than the Average American
It’s almost enough to make you want to move to Canada — if you can afford it.
Credit Bureaus Will Get New Federal Oversight
It’s a move consumer advocates say has been needed for a long time: This morning, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that it will start supervising large credit reporting agencies — the first time these companies have ever been subject to such oversight at the federal level.
Why the U.S. Fracking Industry Worries About the Weather in India
It’s all about a bean that is essential to making the technology flow, literally. In the meantime, Indian farmers have hit pay dirt.
9 Dumb Ways to Ruin a Meeting
If you must call a meeting, make it count. Don’t waste everyone’s time with one of these mistakes.
Work From Home and You Might Miss a Raise
Everyone dreams of the advantages of working from home: the additional flexibility; the time saved by not commuting (or getting dressed!); the ability to slip out to run an errand with the boss none the wiser. Whether the …
Tax Implications of the Zombie Apocalypse
You may imagine tax law professor’s life as the very picture of tedium: days filled with analyzing arcane regulations and number crunching. And for the most part, this may be true. But every once in a while a tax scholar is …
Retailers Can Now Charge Extra For Credit Card Buys — But Will They?
The 7-year fight between merchants and credit card companies over interchange fees on credit cards has finally been resolved. A settlement was reached on Friday that gives retailers a little over $6 billion in a lump sum payment, …
Retirement Savings: 11 Times Final Pay is the New Target
How much do you need to retire? It’s the cosmic question of our day and a new report from Aon Hewitt puts forth a simple answer. But this won’t be the last word on the subject.
Going Away to College This Fall? You’re Now the Exception
For American students, heading off to college has traditionally also meant physically going away to college. But now, at a time when college costs are soaring, and when news of young people being saddled with burdensome student …
Free Pencils, 17¢ Notebooks: Crazy Back-to-School Sales Are Already Here
It’s only the middle of July. School just ended a few weeks ago for some students. Yet, in a world in which the Christmas shopping seasons starts in September, we’re already in prime “back to school” season, according to retailers.