Email is all-pervasive, and arguably one of the most important tools of modern business. But the fact is most of us are not particularly good…
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How Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and other business chiefs hold ruthlessly effective meetings
Why does Jeff Bezos keep a chair empty in the boardroom? Where does Richard Branson hold his meetings? And who’s always late for appointments? Here…
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Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more likely to get sick
A well-designed office is a happy office. As facilities managers strive to save space and cash, they’re reshuffling desks and fiddling with temperature gauges. All…
The complete guide to sleeping at work
Sleep is perhaps the worker’s most precious commodity. There’s never enough time for it and a lack of it can lead to all kinds of…
The complete guide to getting off on the right foot in a new job
Once the elation of securing a new job fades, the nail-biting nerves of starting it quickly set in. For one NBC news anchor, his first-day…
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Until the 1990s, companies didn’t have “business models”
Before the late 1990s, no one was using the phrase “business model.” Or at least, it hardly appeared in written form. The phrase has since…
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The complete guide to procrastinating at work
Some research says the best way to spark creativity is to walk away and that the best ideas come from those least-expected “aha!” moments. So…
The complete guide to surviving long-haul flights
A partnership between Qantas and Emirates was green-lighted yesterday. Both airlines fly some of the longest routes across the skies and carry thousands of business…
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The complete guide to eating at work
There’s no avoiding it. Work an eight-hour day (or longer) and you’ll have to stop to eat at some point. Be it a questionable sandwich…
The complete guide to taking notes effectively at work
The value of note-taking—or notebooks at least—gets a stock market capitalization in the coming weeks with Moleskine’s planned IPO. The Italian stationery firm has boosted…
The comprehensive, fully caffeinated guide to coffee at work
The cardinals who are gathered at the Vatican take a very important daily pause during their deliberations to choose a new pope. “There’s a coffee…
What management guru Peter Drucker might have to say about executive scorecards at Citigroup
Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat wants to track the performance of the third-largest bank in the US and its individual executives using a scorecard system, according…
