Current events may make it seem as though the world has tilted off its axis. But don’t let your upset with the latest news endanger your working relationships. July 15, 2016 by
Pokemon When Pokemon Go players get to level 5, they must pick a team. Pokemon Go players choose teams like consumers choose cellphone plans. Millions of Pokemon Go players are choosing sides in their virtual hunts for Pokemon, which has taken them onto the streets , but their reasoning may be more…
Shutterstock According to recent eMarketer research digital ad spending in the healthcare and pharma industries will increase by over 15% to be $1.93 billion in 2016 and by the year 2020 that number will grow to over $3 billion. But compared to industry leader, retail, it’s a drop in the bucket…
Microsoft Corp. isn’t expected to show meaningful gains in total sales and earnings when it reports fiscal fourth-quarter earnings after the market closes on Tuesday, but investors do expect growth in one core area. The company’s momentum with its cloud business will be on display as the company…
The blue rowboat. Courtesy: Charles Crawford. One of the defining characteristics of both startup and country life is the frequency with which we get hit by storms of all descriptions. With respect to living in a rural mountainous area, these events run the gamut from hail one morning in July (and…
The economy’s continued expansion could have you, like many business owners, optimistic about your company’s growth prospects for this year and going forward. Eighty-three percent of businesses are somewhat or extremely confident that their business will grow in 2016, and on average, these…
The Wall Street Journal By Published: July 17, 2016 9:52 p.m. ET Share Reports of experienced players selling their accounts AFP/Getty Images A woman plays the “Pokemon Go” game in Lafayette Park in front of the White House last week. By Sarah E. Needleman Exploding interest in “Pokémon Go” is…
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket makes its first successful upright landing on the ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ droneship on April 8, 2016 . (Photo by NASA via Getty Images) In this era of accelerating change, business-as-usual is the enemy of every business, new and old. Yet it’s an easy rut to fall into,…
Shutterstock In a world where charities are already pitted against each other by funders looking to procure impact, using tools of social investment over grants makes a lot of sense. In a world where we move beyond charity competition into a collaborative one, it becomes much less interesting.…
Credit: Élé Insider Why would you launch a shoe company with no experience in the industry? And why would you set out to displace the lowly slipper with a better kind of indoor shoe? In my search for counterintuitive business stories Élé Insiders, the brainchild of entrepreneur Jonathan Newman,…
Legal Why #BlackLivesMatter Should Matter to Employers Since your workers are thinking and talking about these issues, you should be too, with them. July 13, 2016 by
Earlier this year I helped moderate a lively panel discussion on the social-media business and legal trends. The panelists, who represented well-known brands, didn’t agree on anything. One panelist would make an observation, only to be immediately challenged by another panelist. Hoping to generate…
As the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule was being passed into law earlier this year, thousands of people voiced their opposition to a rule designed to improve the retirement security of Americans by improving investment advice from financial advisors. Opponents feared that the new rule would…
A Florida Yelp Inc. executive accidentally plunged to her death after stepping out of the way for a man on a popular hiking trail in the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Colleen Burns, 35, was at Ooh Aah Point on the South Kaibab Trail with friends to watch the sunrise on Friday when she tripped and lost…
Legal The EEOC on Paternalism Vs. Pregnancy Discrimination An employer has zero business trying to protect a pregnant worker or her fetus; those decisions are left to the employee. July 12, 2016 by
Need a motion activated toilet night light? Maybe a beekeeping suit? Maybe you miss “Downton Abbey” and would like “The Official Companion To All Six Seasons” to keep the show going? All of this and more could you be yours today (at a discount) thanks to Amazon.com Inc’s AMZN, -0.76% Prime Day, the…
In the 20 th century almost everyone worried about the destruction of the world as we knew it from a full-scale nuclear war between the United Stated and Russia, or even a nuclear attack by a rogue nation who obtained a nuke by clandestine means. It was not far-fetched and was averted only by the…
Authorities in Stillwater, Minn., have rescued five sex-trafficking victims aged 13 through 17 in recent months by combing through classified ads for “escorts” on Backpage.com. Clues in photos accompanying ads were sometimes obvious, officials said: teddy bears, toys, stuffed animals. With more than…
Welcome to childhood in 2016. Kids and adults in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand are taking to the streets this week to play Pokémon Go, a new smartphone app game made by the Pokémon Co., which is 32% owned by Nintendo NTDOY, +2.56% and Niantic Inc., a spinoff from Google parent company Alphabet…
Cartoon by Ted Rall After former President Bill Clinton met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in a secret meeting, Lynch’s Justice Department announced that it would not indict Hillary Clinton for her private email server and destruction of public documents, because she had no obvious intent to…
Legal Developing Anti-Harassment Culture Is Key to Stopping Workplace Harassment Any program will not be worth the paper on which it’s written unless the company has a culture that abhors harassment. July 11, 2016 by
The highly anticipated season premiere of an award-winning TV drama is pre-empted by a mysterious group, who post it online before the corporate media behemoth that owns it can air it. Sound like the work of Elliot Alderson and F Society? Nah, it’s actually the marketing folks at that corporate…
Don Larson and his employees at Sunshine Nut Company in Matola, Mozambique. Photo courtesy of Sunshine. Do you have to be a little nuts to give up all the trappings of corporate success, move your family to Mozambique to start a cashew company and pledge to give away 90% of your profits to help…
The cryptocurrency exchange that previously signalled earlier this summer that it was relaunching as a so-called ‘Decentralized Conglomerate’ this July to become a hub for diverse business projects, will shortly kickstart its first project, HEAT , a new third-generation blockchain platform from…
With zero-based budgeting , first introduced a few decades ago, no budget line item is sacred. Every year, the budget for every item is reset to zero, and everything allocated to it must be justified for renewal. We see a similar principle now being applied to the enterprise technology realm of the…
I remember reading a piece about farmers using drones, and I must say I was impressed. For farmers, the transition from manned aircraft to drones is an easy choice to make. Not only are they much cheaper, but they also provide imaging tools, which can be used for detecting a variety of crop-related…
Work and life are often separate for professionals, at least when it comes to certain topics being off limits. But when those topics, like the murders of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and those five officers in Dallas are so prominent, is it realistic to think employees can separate the two? July…
One of the most startling aspects of the horrific tragedies in Dallas last night, where a sniper murdered five of the city’s police force, was the use of a “bomb robot” to take out the killer. As far as FORBES is aware, this is the first time police have killed using a robot on U.S. soil. But who…
By Janet Miller In the famous words of Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” It can be easy to get swept away in the fast lane and forget to stop and show your appreciation for what you do have. A life well lived is one of…
Amazon.com Inc.’s market cap hit $350 billion for the first time this morning, and now sits within striking distance of another marker -- becoming the fifth most valuable U.S.-listed company. Amazon’s AMZN, -0.76% shares popped following late April’s first-quarter report, and grinded still higher…
The world’s Permanent Court of Arbitration says it will rule Tuesday on the legal basis for China’s claim to about 95% of a widely disputed sea off its south coast. The court might say China has no such right because its claim extends beyond the international norm of a 370-km offshore exclusive…
Facebook FB, +0.05% co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed his condolences to the loved ones of Philando Castile, the black motorist shot to death by police Wednesday night in Minnesota, saying that the disturbing video showing the aftermath of Castile’s shooting spotlights the everyday unease…
But a tug-of-war continues between the available labor pool and hiring managers who can't seem to fill certain vacancies, according to The New Talent Landscape: Recruiting Difficulty and Skills Shortages , a report released June 20 by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). More than…
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