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Why org charts may damage your startup
Why Your Startup Org Chart Is Pointless BY Marc Barros, inc.com The minute you start drawing lines and boxes, you’re instituting an “us versus them” mentality. And that’s the last thing you want at a start-up. Organizational charts are pointless. First, they cause you to waste too much time in Excel… http://flip.it/cyE5L Related articles What … Continue reading Why org charts may damage your startup
How to interview your next employer
Think Your Interview Process is Fair? Read This Letter. BY Suzanne Lucas, inc.com Most companies demand plenty of information from job applicants. There’s no good reason for this to be a one-way street. What would happen if job candidates treated you the way you treat them? You might be receiving letters such as this… http://flip.it/OKFsL … Continue reading How to interview your next employer
Truly terrible mission statements
The 9 Worst Mission Statements of All Time BY Minda Zetlin, inc.com If your mission statement contains no typos, mentions what your company does, and doesn’t go on for a whole page, you’re already doing better than these major brands. A mission statement can be a forceful way to motivate yourself and your t… http://flip.it/cDTR7 … Continue reading Truly terrible mission statements
Making performance reviews less painful
Performance Reviews Don’t Have To Be Absolutely Awful BY DRAKE BAER, fastcompany.com As the end of the year approaches, so do annual performance evaluations. But the process doesn’t have to be painful and counterproductive. Here are your problems solved. The (often dreaded) annual performance review is an inescapable part of… http://flip.it/qPmeJ Related articles Content curators … Continue reading Making performance reviews less painful
New Yorkers sleep in RVs to avoid high rents
People in New York are living in RVs to get around astronomical rents slaskow, grist.org In New York City, car owners complain all the time about parking. (Like, bike lanes are making for less of it, boo hoo!) And while there is a fair bit of competition for these public and often free resources, it … Continue reading New Yorkers sleep in RVs to avoid high rents
The jobs of the future belong to data science and user experience designers
The jobs of the future belong to data scientists and user experience designers Stacey Higginbotham, gigaom.com GE and design may not seem to go together, but as it connects its industrial products, medical devices and home appliances to the internet and rethinks its business for the connected age, the company is focusing on user interfaces … Continue reading The jobs of the future belong to data science and user experience designers
Creating meaningful work
What I’ve Learned About Creating Meaningful Work Paul Jarvis, thenextweb.com Paul Jarvis is a Web designer and author. His latest book, Everything I Know, is now available. Working for yourself is scary stuff. When you work for someone else, it’s easy to blame failings or frustrations on the boss, the… http://flip.it/c5kIc Related articles Do What … Continue reading Creating meaningful work
Starting an Airbnb business of rental properties
I Rented Apartments Just to Rent on Airbnb for Profit Marshall Haas, thenextweb.com I rented apartments to rent on Airbnb for profit. Here’s how it turned out By Marshall Haas, , 04:59pm http://flip.it/ykRdo Related articles Airbnb updates Android app, brings reviews and host calendar view (otroandroidblog.wordpress.com) Could The Party Soon Be Over For Airbnb? (npr.org) … Continue reading Starting an Airbnb business of rental properties
Americans hate their jobs more than other countries
Everyone In The World Hates Their Jobs—But Americans Hate Theirs The Most fastcoexist.com A survey asked people if they were happy to go to work in the morning. The answer was a rather emphatic “no.” What are we going to do about this global case of the Mondays? We suppose this survey of 8,000 workers … Continue reading Americans hate their jobs more than other countries
Top 5 cities for computer science jobs
Here are the top 5 cities for computer science jobs Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now If you’re fortunate enough to posess a computer science degree, or have picked up coding skills on your own time, you have the option to live and work virtually anywhere in the world. But in certain cities, tech… … Continue reading Top 5 cities for computer science jobs
Target offers $50 a month unlimited plan on T mobile
Target’s Brightspot mobile service launches Sunday, starts at $35 per month Zachary Lutz, engadget.com Ever tenacious retailer Target is once again nipping at Walmart’s heels. Following the introduction of its Target Ticket video-on-demand service — a direct competitor to Vudu — the big box chain is now looking to get into the… http://flip.it/AakID Related articles … Continue reading Target offers $50 a month unlimited plan on T mobile
Rethinking the cubicle: Scott Berkun and life at WordPress
Reimagining Work: Scott Berkun’s Year Without Pants at Automattic Wade Roush, xconomy.com Wade RoushFrom my desk at Xconomy San Francisco—aka my Potrero Hill apartment—I can look out the window at Highway 280, watch the traffic that crawls into the city every morning and back out every evening, and chuckle smugly. There’s never … http://flip.it/6DRoG
Biogen and biotechs that score well on pharma bureaucracy index
The Pharma Bureaucracy Index: Who’s Nimble, and Who’s Sloooowww? xconomy.com (Page 2 of 2) the respondents that their answers would remain anonymous, but that I’d used their scores to put together a composite index of pharma bureaucracy. By the end of business on Thurs … http://flip.it/GlS4k Related articles The Biotech Startup Class of 2013: Don't … Continue reading Biogen and biotechs that score well on pharma bureaucracy index
Social network usage by income level
The Surprising Identity of Each Social Network Cooper Smith, inc.com Each social media platform has cultivated a unique identity thanks to the demographics of the people who participate in the network. Some platforms are preferred by young adults, who are most active in the evening, others by… http://flip.it/j6B9e Related articles Social Media is About Relationship … Continue reading Social network usage by income level
The only jobs that won’t be taken over by robots require understanding of human behavior
Think You’re Special? A Robot Could Do Your Job fastcoexist.com Technology is advancing so fast that half of all jobs that exist today might be taken over by bots and computers in the next 20 years. Find out if your job is on the list. Is your job safe from our new computer-programmed overlords? A … Continue reading The only jobs that won’t be taken over by robots require understanding of human behavior
Twitter founder describes his theory of ECommerce algorithms
Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online Ryan Tate, wired.com The co-creator of Twitter and Blogger has decided that “the internet is simply a giant machine designed to give people what they want.” Here’s what this grand unified theory means and where it came from. http://flip.it/noY5p Related articles A Grand Unified Economic Theory? … Continue reading Twitter founder describes his theory of ECommerce algorithms
I have cancer, what’s your excuse?
I have brain cancer. What’s your excuse? Ronnie Castro, venturebeat.com You may have caught the article by my friend and co-founder Matt Ehrlichman last month, titled “My 32-year-old co-founder has a brain tumor — seriously?“ To set the record straight, I’m 33 now, not quite old enough to start lying about my ag… http://flip.it/kTGHI Related … Continue reading I have cancer, what’s your excuse?
Workplace monitoring and email etiquette
Does Your Boss Spy on You? ehow.com by Joanna Sloame(photo: Polka Dot RF/Polka Dot/Getty Images)The Answer’s Almost Always “Yes” — Here’s What You Should KnowEveryone knows that it’s a bad idea to complain about your boss on your company email, but most people have no idea t… http://flip.it/yHgIj
Best websites for your career
The Top 100 Websites For Your Career Jacquelyn Smith, forbes.com Last year we inaugurated our first-ever list of the best websites for your career. We took nominations from readers and combed through some 700 sites in order to compile our list of the top 75. This August we put out another call for… http://flip.it/2MIhK Related … Continue reading Best websites for your career
Is Brooklyn the next Silicon Valley?
Can Urban Planning Turn Brooklyn Into the Next Silicon Valley? Kyle VanHemert, wired.com WXY presents a smart vision for any city seeking to accommodate innovation. http://flip.it/rrvpO
Big data exposes myths about good and bad hires
(via Former convicts make bad employees—and other hiring myths big data expose – Quartz) Related articles How to Recruit and Retain the Best Talent - Part One Recruitment (douglasjacksonrecruitment.wordpress.com) Former Convincts Make Bad Employees--and Other Hiring Myths Exposed By Big Data (theatlantic.com)
Why everyone is going freelance
Why Everybody’s Going Freelance BY DRAKE BAER, fastcompany.com Whether they’re getting forced out of their jobs or freeing themselves from their organizations, 17 million Americans are going solo. Here’s what that means for the future of work. More Americans are declaring their independence: as in the … http://flip.it/MIZgf
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Tear out your lawn and get rich
Get Rich Quick by Tearing Up Your Lawn by Tim Layton, popularmechanics.com DIY Central moonlightbulb/Flickr If you live in Los Angeles, you might be able to earn a few extra bucks and leave behind the dreaded job of mowing the lawn in one fell swoop. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) h… … Continue reading Tear out your lawn and get rich
Thrive with less
Thrive with Less Christina Nellemann, tinyhouseblog.com Can you not only live, but thrive, with less? A group of six college students from Michigan decided to take some time out of what they felt were lives of excess to live more minimally. They filmed the lifestyle experiment last year and made it int… http://flip.it/uGijv Related articles … Continue reading Thrive with less
How the cloud is rescuing the freelance industry
How the cloud is rescuing the $300 billion freelance industry from itself Rich Pearson, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now Rich Pearson is Chief Marketing Officer of Elance. The way that businesses recruit and manage workers is undergoing a dramatic transformation. A volatile economy and an increasingly… http://flip.it/gfsrb Related articles Elance unveils Private Talent Cloud to … Continue reading How the cloud is rescuing the freelance industry
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