work life balance

Employee Health, Wellness-- No Longer Optional Benefit, but Strategic Imperative

Cali Yost — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:22:58 -0400

When you develop and implement work+life flexibility strategies that help businesses operate and individuals manage their work+life fit, you run into many often baffling false beliefs. Since the start of the recession, two of these off-base convictions have stood out as managers and employees struggle to do more with less:

Greenwood Village Goose Chase

Jordan Boxer — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:18:32 -0400

Please Join Delegate Source LLC and The City of Greenwood Village at the 14th annual Greenwood Village GooseChase, held at the Landmark Center on June 20th.

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Jordan Boxer — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:44:52 -0400

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Jordan Boxer — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:44:48 -0400

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Unplugged Event

Jordan Boxer — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:34:21 -0400

Please join one of the South Denver Metro Chamber's Newest Members-

Delegate Source LLC for a fun afternoon of networking, great food and beverages.
Whetherit's cleaning around the house, going grocery shopping, picking up thekids, cooking dinner, babysitting, and so forth. Delegate Source aimsto be the personal assistant and master vendor for our members. Whyremember and keep track of paying multiple people for various services?Delegate Source can keep you on-track and help to simplify your life 24hours a day, 7 days a week.

Secret Santa's Little Helper

Sara D. Anderson — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:30:23 -0500

Put your office mates to shame or gift yourself a newly tricked-out office with this drool-worthy work gear, from an Ettore Sottsass Bacterio etched business-card case to Logitech's sexy wireless diNovo Edge Keyboard.

Looking for a modish case to carry your business cards in? This card case, designed by Ettore Sottsass, features a chromium finish with a blue bacteria design (yes, bacteria) on the lid. Plus the exclusive designer's signature is engraved on the back. Unlike microbiologists, you'll have good taste.

Objects of Design

Anne C. Lee — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:15:22 -0500

Made from stainless steel, Pyrex and silicone, the 11-oz. teapot by Joey Roth was originally created as part of his college portfolio. The clear body enables you to watch the tea leaves unfurl--and the pot itself was designed to look better with some wear and tear. Making tea is now officially cool. Even cooler? The sustainable packaging.

Price: $200
More Info: Sorapot

20 Gifts Under $25

Saabira Chaudhuri — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:30:09 -0500

With the holidays fast approaching and the economy still reeling from the financial crisis, this year it's harder than ever to find affordable presents that your friends and loved ones might actually want. We culled the hottest items from some our favorite sites, including the MOMA Store, Uncommon Goods, and The Coolest Gifts, to bring you our top picks for under $25.

The 10 Best Marketing Stunts Ever!

Fast Company staff — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:15:17 -0500

Several of history's most outrageous marketing stunts are chronicled in Getting Into Guinness, a book about the cultural impact of Guinness World Records, which itself started out as a promotional gimmick. Here's a list of what are arguably the most bizarre.

What the Wall Street Crisis Means for Big Tech

Rip Empson — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:45:11 -0400

Oracle, the world's second largest software company, dispelled some fears over Big Technology's future last week, announcing quarterly results that included a 28% rise in share price from a year ago.

Calendar: What's Happening October 2008

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:31:31 -0400

Top 10 Gadget Sites

Kevin Ohannessian — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:17:49 -0400

Probably the most popular gadget blog on the Web, it has become the head of the class and excels at accessing leaked and exclusive images of unreleased gear or breaking news -- just ignore the hundreds of other blog sites it promotes.

Engadget.com

The Skills Portability Factor

Tom Stern — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:29:16 -0400

From Kindergarten to the Boardroom

Tom Stern — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:20:08 -0400

11 Facebook Applications That Were Built to Fail

Brendan Collins and Rachel King — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:45:05 -0400

1. My Celebrity Boyfriend

11 of the Worst Facebook Applications

Fast Company staff — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:55:08 -0400

Own Your Friends! enables your friends to judge your financial worth on an auctioning block for all the Facebook world to see. Who doesn't want that?

The gaming app, Pimp Fight, lets you "build and fight pimps against yo' friends” – charming. However, the real fun is comes in as you make your way through loads of built-in advertisements, some of which require personal financial information.

What Is Labor Day Really About Anyway?

Tom Stern — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:45:07 -0400

What Do You Want, An Olympics Medal?

Tom Stern — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:15:07 -0400

Made to Stick: The Myth of Mutual Funds

Dan & Chip Heath — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:15:07 -0400

Let's pull off the Band-Aid quickly. You've come to believe that mutual funds are a smart place to put your money. They're not.

That's the assessment of the smartest minds in finance, supported by a mountain of historical data. If you own actively managed mutual funds, you will almost certainly retire with less money -- a lot less money -- than if you'd simply dumped your money into boring index funds. So two questions: How can this possibly be true? And why, in gleeful defiance of the data, do more people keep buying mutual funds every year?

Taking Back the Internet: Creating a Passive-Aggressive Income Stream

Tom Stern — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:45:09 -0400

How to Make Banking Fun

Anya Kamenetz — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:31:00 -0400

Suze Orman, the scourge of spending, must be thrilled: This past spring, U.S. credit-card debt rose by the smallest amount in three years.

Banks? Less so. Many have based their profits on high-interest lending, rising fees, and penalties -- drawing the ire of consumer advocates, congressional regulators, and anyone who has ever been on hold with Visa.

Now September 2008

Fast Company Staff — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:30:26 -0400

September

You Can Take That to the Bank...Not!

Tom Stern — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:45:07 -0400

Good News: The Economy Isn't the Only Thing That's Dying

Tom Stern — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:30:06 -0400

Some guy in Japan just bought the farm by working too hard. You heard right. He was 45, the lead engineer for a Toyota hybrid car division. While he was helping us reduce our dependence on oil, the poor guy ran out of gas. And he didn't even live as long as some of our aging rock stars. You know the economy is in bad shape when an auto worker doesn't last as long as Keith Richards. Prior to his death this dedicated worker had been averaging over 80 hours of overtime per month. Which I guess should now be referred to as "six feet undertime."