Hoping For a Raise? How About a Gift Card, Instead?

Many a disgruntled employee has complained of working for peanuts. But is working for lattes any better?

Unemployment rates are still high and wages stagnant, but American workers are more productive than ever. That’s good news for the economy, but means that rank-and-file employees are working longer and harder.

And what are we …

Aim for Smart Failure

If you want to encourage people to take healthy risks, you need to make sure they’re not afraid to fail. The first step in doing that is defining what a smart failure — a thoughtful and well-planned project that for some reason didn’t work — looks like. Chances are that everyone in your organization knows what success is. Far fewer …

Why the Argument for Austerity Took a Big Hit Yesterday

Updated at 11:12 p.m.

In the years following the financial crisis, America has been obsessed with debt. Hurting from the crisis, consumers and businesses have been busy paying off debt, while the federal government has ramped up its borrowing through a combination of stimulus spending and lower tax revenue. And of course all this new …

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