Jobs Guru Spills Secrets About Older Workers
Award-winning journalist Kerry Hannon offers some insight about the types of jobs the gray-haired set can expect to find in the coming years.
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A Simple Way to Get TV Viewers to Stop Skipping the Ads
Why “second (and third) screens” make you a better TV viewer—as far as advertisers are concerned, anyway.
Best and Worst Months To Be Born If You Want To Be the Boss
There’s been much research and writing over the years about the positive and negative affects of birth month on various aspects of life, few as well known as Malcolm Gladwell‘s 2008 bestseller Outliers: The Story of Success. Now …
Attention Employers: Don’t Sleep On Workers’ Insomnia
Add employee sleeping habits to the list of problems that workplace managers will have to start worrying a little more about: According to a study released earlier this month, insomnia-related workplace accidents happen more …
Why Prices for Sports Teams May Stop Skyrocketing
One of the more interesting nuggets in the 30th edition of the Forbes 400 is this: In 1982, nine members of the inaugural class of the richest Americans owned sports teams. In this year’s gilt grouping, the number is 32. That’s …
10 Best & Worst Sports-Team Relocations in History
There’s no shortage of speculation about which NFL team might relocate to Los Angeles, despite recent news that Anschutz Entertainment Group, a leading force in the development of a downtown stadium, has been put up for sale by its billionaire owner. But for all the excitement in the nation’s second-largest media market about the return …
New Public-Private Partnerships: The President’s Stealth Plan To Create Jobs?
As casual reading, the Presidential Memorandum “Accelerating Technology Transfer and Commercialization of Federal Research in Support of High-Growth Businesses,” released Oct. 28, 2011, is about as riveting as the Department of …
Top Reasons Why Americans Stay At Their Jobs (And What It Means For The Presidential Campaign)
What’s the No. 1 reason people continue working for their employer? Is it the pay? The benefits? A lack of better options? Those are obvious answers, especially given today’s unemployment numbers and sluggish economy. But they’re …
Six Reasons Why “Gamification” Will Rule the Business World
The new fall TV season marks a happy resurrection: The Pyramid, the most recent update of the 20th-Century classic game show The $10,000 [$25,000] [$100,000] Pyramid, this version from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? creator …
Don’t Nap On This: Why The Business of Sleep Will Keep Booming
One day, when smog-free cars run on sea water and every loophole in the tax code has been closed, the entirety of humanity will be in such a glorious state of physical fitness and spiritual bliss that falling asleep will be as …
Start-Ups Create Jobs, Right? So Let’s Stop Praising Small Businesses — and Fund More
By pretty much any measure, lending to American small businesses is weak. Most recently, small business borrowing dropped 5% from May to June, according to the research firm PayNet, which tracks such lending. And while May’s …
Country Half Full: An Optimistic Take On Our National Debt Nightmare
It’s rare that a United Nations report can engender optimism about anything, let alone America’s finances. But a recently issued (and mostly overlooked) study from the global body’s International Human Dimensions Program might …