Statistics Canada’s latest payroll report shows earnings grew 3.1 per cent on average over the year to March, 2013. Average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees were $915 in March, up 0.7 per cent from the previous month. The report also … Continued
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) is turning up the pressure to keep its shelves adequately stocked by proposing to tie executive compensation to the issue — and has asked an outside auditor to alert workers which items to focus on by … Continued
Who are the highest-paid people in media? Naturally, Disney‘s Bob Iger, Comcast‘s Brian Roberts, and News Corps.’ Rupert Murdoch are among the best paid, but none of them is the highest-paid executive of last year. We’ve scoured through the top media companies’ most recent SEC filings to … Continued
By Leslie Kwoh As the final contours of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) become clear, employers are starting to make tough decisions about how to implement the law. The Wall Street Journal writes today about how some small businesses, … Continued
Are you truly an amazing boss or just a good one? See how many of these 10 traits are natural for you. Recently, I had overwhelming response to my column on 10 Things Really Amazing Employees Do. In it, I also gave … Continued
Managing creativity may seem an oxymoron, similar to an order to “be spontaneous!” Well, it doesn’t have to be. There are many methods and tools to set the stage or enhance the creativity that staff may bring to bear … Continued
How many “best friends” do you have? Social scientists say most people count just four friends with whom they can discuss very important matters, but the maximum possible number of such friends is around six.With rare exceptions, it’s just not … Continued
Women are (relatively) few and far between in the tech industry.They make up less than 10% of venture capitalists, and they leave the industry at twice the rate of men, according to a recent study by the Kauffman Foundation.There’s also a shortage of … Continued
Sometimes self-destructive workaholic behavior can get so out of hand there’s only one recourse left: an office intervention. Enter Leslie Perlow, a Harvard Business School professor of leadership armed with an eagle eye for counterproductive work styles. “Most of us … Continued
For many people, the word “sales” has something of a negative connotation. They think of someone pushy, or who’s trying to deceive them in some way.In his new book, To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others, Daniel Pink … Continued
Tim Ferriss is among the most popular writers around on productivity, picking up skills, and escaping the 9-5 lifestyle. His first bestseller, The Four Hour Workweek, came out of his own experience of going from working long hours, seven days a week … Continued
Every successful business is built on relationships. That old cliché, ”It’s not what you know, it’s whom you know”–is perfectly true. Just ask Josh Hartwell, who started Mobile Deluxe in 2003 and built it into a force in the mobile gaming world. The … Continued
This YouTube video of Steve Jobs is making the rounds again and for good reason. It’s less than two minutes long and it encapsulates one of the best bits of advice Steve Jobs ever offered on how to succeed. In it, he tells of … Continued
Technology can be a finicky monster, seemingly going one way before ultimately going another. And attempting to predict its course with certainty can pretty set you up to look like a fool, many years later. Hindsight is 20/20, of course, … Continued
Most people agree that entrepreneurs have to think differently and take risks to have much chance of building a successful business. Yet I have found that serious entrepreneurs usually go way beyond these platitudes in their actions and thinking, and … Continued
