A good story can offer critical business insights and motivate your employees, but how can you find these telling anecdotes?
Influence Your Company Culture (For the Better)
Benefits, perks and compensation may paint a rosy picture for recruitment, but it’s these intangible elements that make for a happy and healthy company culture.
Big Bird: Why Fast Food Companies Are Suddenly In Love With Chicken
Talk about a comeback. For years, a roast chicken was the quintessential Sunday dinner, and Depression-era political campaigns invoked the phrase “a chicken in every pot” to symbolize economic prosperity. But in the ensuing …
The Best Times to Buy or Sell a House
The housing market, a reliable bellwether of the economy, seems to be bouncing back.
Many of the nation’s largest home builders surprised analysts by reporting a profit in the quarter that just ended. Home sales continue to …
The Secret Life of a Government Inflation Agent
The next time you’re at the mall, the supermarket, or perhaps even a used car lot, you might run across a shopper meticulously taking note of the prices of everything from Red Delicious apples to women’s undergarments. This …
More Signs of Strength in Housing: Does Bernanke Get the Credit?
It’s an election season cliché to forewarn an ideological opponent that he is not entitled to his own facts. But when it comes to the economy, it would seem one is entitled to his own facts. Or to be more precise, that there …
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 …
Hey Ladies, Want Some Jerky? Unusual Marketing Efforts Aimed Just at Women
Gender-based marketing sometimes focuses on men: A “manly” diet soda hit the market not long ago, for instance, and Weight Watchers has made concerted efforts to appeal to guys and let them know that the company’s product is for …
Real Estate Financial Fitness Q&A
Wondering what’s the latest in real estate? Every year, the Financial Planning Association of New York sponsors a “Financial Fitness Day” at New York University, co-sponsored by Moneyland. This year’s real estate discussion …
Romney’s Dismaying Attack on Garage-Based Businesses
The most infuriating moment of the first presidential debate between Mitt Romney and President Obama hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves.
That moment was when Governor Romney, the Republican, in response to a question …
Can Companies Like Walmart and Google Provide a Better Banking Experience Than Actual Banks?
It was a busy Monday for banking news, with one big company rolling out a new prepaid card and another behemoth launching a small business loan program. There’s just one thing that makes this a little bit weird: Neither of the …
Imprecision Can Aid Decision-Making
It would be nice if decisions were always straightforward. But, a drive for clarity can actually be distracting when you’re trying to set priorities. Sometimes it’s helpful to be imprecise.