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4 Steps To Advancing Your Career Via HR’s Myopic Bizarro World By David Clutterbuck, fastcompany.com You can make it without being a sociopath or middling to the point of uselessness. But it’s going to take some insight. Here’s a tough question: If corporate policies and practices in talent management and succession planning work, ho… http://flpbd.it/HOOdE…
Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends Dan Rowinski, readwriteweb.com You know who you are. You are the employee who ignores mandates from the IT department. You use your own devices and apps to get the job done, company policies be hanged. The IT manager might call you a problem employee, but actually y… http://flpbd.it/Y1i7Q Related…
Is a résumé relevant in the age of online courses and open source projects? Stack Exchange, arstechnica.com This Q&A is part of a biweekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 80+ Q&A sites. davidk01 asks: My resume is no… http://flpbd.it/XbZep…
How To Be A Happy And Successful Creative Freelancer (Or Work With One) fastcocreate.com Freelancers share their best practices for being their own boss, and why you should so totally just do it. When talking to creative freelancers, there’s one phrase that’s often repeated: “I don’t mean to sound cheesy or cliché but…” What… http://flpbd.it/doJLS…
Can We Shop Our Way To Change? BY ERIC SMILLIE, fastcoexist.com Through new partnerships with major companies, the formerly tiny Carrotmob is now aiming to use consumers’ buying power to shape global supply chains. When Carrotmob organized its first buy-in at a liquor store in San Francisco’s Mission… http://flpbd.it/CoIY5 Related articles SaveOnBrew Adds Hundreds of…
Don’t Buy A DSLR By Dan Nosowitz, popsci.com Just getting into photography? Great! When you’re looking for a camera, keep on walking past those DSLRs—as of now, their moment is over. You want to get more into photography. You’ve got somewhere between a few and several hundred doll… http://flpbd.it/lDNTs Related articles A question about DSLRs…
What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy Richard Florida is Co-Founder and Editor at Large at The Atlantic Cities. He’s also a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and Global Research Professor at New York University. He is…
I’m Caterina Fake, and This Is How I Work Tessa Miller, lifehacker.com The internet wouldn’t be the same without Caterina Fake. In 2004, she launched Flickr, one of the largest photo hosting and sharing sites. Later, she co-founded Hunch, which aims to personalize the web through recommendations and a… http://flpbd.it/Ixrmx Related articles The meaning of…
How the internet is changing the fine art marketplace By Nathan Hurst, wired.co.uk Technology Five years ago, Jen Bekman founded 20×200 on the belief that everyone should be able to collect art, and that the internet could help them do so. While neither the oldest nor the biggest place to buy prints online (art.com has……
Knode and other local startups are the focus of new vc approaches that involve less time shuffling papers at a desk, and more time doing ethnographic research on what people actually do. Some venture firms find both ideas and the money – Boston.com. Related articles Fred Wilson says venture capital funds have gotten too big…
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By Cory Brown, washingtontimes.com It is a manager’s problem that Henry Ford and even a young Bill Gates never had to deal with – how to maintain productivity when workers are using valuable company time to update their Facebook status or check their Twitter feeds. http://flpbd.it/vKpIL Employers put offices in social media pockets Related articles…
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Why Don’t Young Americans Buy Cars? Jordan Weissmann, theatlantic.com Auto makers are worried about the Millennials. They just don’t seem to care about owning a car. Is this a generational shift, or just a lousy economy at work? Kids these days. They don’t get married. They don’t buy homes. And,… http://flpbd.it/zeQMx Related articles Young drivers…
http://flpbd.it/6C2q0 The Underground Economy of Buying Twitter Followers: Dealers, Abusers & Fake Accounts Related articles The ‘Twitter Underground Economy’: Buying (fake) Twitter followers (nextlevelofnews.com) 10 Career Experts You Need to Follow on Twitter | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com) We Tried To Fly A Drone But Failed Miserably (businessinsider.com) The Drones Are Here! (And You Can Buy…
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