With its $13 billion agreement to bail out Cyprus, the E.U. this weekend thought that it had successfully doused the latest threat to its single currency, the euro. Cyprus has run into trouble because its banks are heavily …
Money Talking: How Mayor Bloomberg Impacts the Economy
Joe Nocera (The New York Times) and Rana Foroohar (Time) join Charlie Herman (WNYC) on Money Talking to examine Mayor Bloomberg’s past and future as businessman turned mayor in chief after a week where he was even more omnipresent than usual.
Workers Who Delay Retirement May Be Happiest
Once a radical view, working longer as a means to health and happiness is the new reality for many.
3 Ways to Use Persuasion to Get What You Need
In today’s organizations, persuasion trumps formal power. To get things done, you need to be able to sway the undecided and convert opponents. Here are three ways to do that:
- Give what you want to receive. You can invoke reciprocity by giving exactly what you hope to get in the future. For example, lend a colleague one of your
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Carlyle Group Wants to Make You the Next Mitt Romney
The normally secretive private equity industry spent 2012 in the spotlight thanks to Mitt Romney‘s ill-fated presidential run, and some of these firms appear to be capitalizing on all the free press they received — literally.
That’s right, the publicly traded private equity firm Carlyle Group — whose funds were once open only to the …
A Steady Hand on the Throttle
The Pragmatist: the first in a series celebrating planning and financial pragmatism
Reuters Journalist Charged With Helping Anonymous Hack Los Angeles Times
A well-known editor at news giant Reuters has been indicted by a federal grand jury on felony charges of conspiring with a notorious hacker group to deface the website of The Los Angeles Times in 2010 after he had been …
How Sesame Street Counted All the Way to 1 Billion YouTube Views
The popular children’s show has become a hit on YouTube by staying current with pop culture trends.
The Most Important Task You’re Ignoring
Answering emails, putting out fires–those are important. But one founder suggests something else should take up at least 25 percent of your day.
Eliminate Jargon from Your Next Presentation
Buzzwords, insider concepts, and industry lingo have no place in your presentation. Each field has its own lexicon that’s familiar to experts but foreign to everyone else. Unless you’re speaking to a group of people who are steeped in the material, you’re better off avoiding highly technical or industry-specific language.
Can Cloud Services Help Your Small Business Grow?
For a company that’s just starting out, it makes sense to automate as many basic processes as you can and focus on the things that will make you a success. That’s where the cloud might help.
Whodathunkit? Auto Dealerships Realize Responding to Customer E-mails Helps to Sell Cars
It turns out that responding to potential paying customers is good for business. That’s why car dealerships have been dramatically improving how they handle online inquiries.