You’re not the only one who walks into a networking mixer full of dread. Before you make a run for the door, try a different approach. Tell yourself that it isn’t about you. Instead of trying to meet potential clients, or making another connection that will advance your career, focus exclusively on what you can do for the other …
Making Employees Feel Welcome
Workplaces are typically a mix of generations and backgrounds, so how can you make everyone feel welcome?
Ask the Expert: Your Technology Questions Answered
The world of technology can be confusing to those who don’t speak the language, so TIME.com is broadening a new series that tries to break down those barriers.
Majoring in Drones: Higher Ed Embraces Unmanned Aircraft
Schools are adopting majors and certificate programs in unmanned aircraft systems to prepare students for potential jobs in the future
Why Samsung’s Challenge to Apple and Google Is Great for Consumers
Over the past few years, tech giants Apple and Google have emerged as dominant forces in the mobile-technology market. Although they’ve pursued radically different strategies, each company has been wildly successful: Apple …
Why We’re So Irrational When It Comes to Tax Refunds
Think about it: A tax refund is just that — a refund of your own hard-earned money. It’s not a gift or a stroke of good fortune. The problem is that most people don’t look at tax refunds this way.
Amazon Prime: Bigger, More Powerful, More Profitable than Anyone Imagined
Membership in Amazon Prime, which offers unlimited free two-day shipping, has doubled in less than two years. Analysts predict it’ll double again by 2017
Cyprus: The E.U. ‘Rescue’ That Risks Backfiring
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 …