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California Covenants Not to Compete - Severely Limited Enforceability

Non-competition agreements are tough to enforce in California. READ»

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Gerald Haman

Everything I Need to Know I Learned (or Didn't Learn) in Business School Why I Didn't Go to Business School I left a promising fast-track career at Procter & Gamble in 1986 to go to graduate school. After researching MBA programs ...READ»

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Everything I Need to Know I Learned (or Didn't Learn) in Business School

Carlo Brumat Carlo Brumat, currently dean of DUXX Graduate School of Business Leadership, in Monterrey, Mexico, worked for many years in industry both in the United States and in Europe -- first as a physicist and later as a ...READ»

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The Human Face of E-Customer Service

If you think delivering good customer service in a traditional business is tough, try doing it in an e-commerce outfit. Online grocer Webvan has some good ideas on how to pull it off. The question is, Will Webvan stay alive long enough for it to matter?READ»

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The Brand Called URL

At the heart of the Web are two important lessons about your career: You are your most important product, and everything about you gets more valuable when you use technology to leverage it.READ»

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The Interpreter

Claudia Kotchka glides from the design world to the business world and back with ease. Now she has to teach 110,000 employees at Procter Gamble to do the same thing.READ»

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Feedback

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Feedback: We Cannot Take the Future for Granted

As a senior manager in organizational development and change at Arthur Andersen, I learned sooo much in The New Economy. I relearned the reality that organizations are not natural orders as we find in physical or biological science. ...READ»

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Behind the Scandals: Men at Work

Recent business scandals have less to do with corrupt individuals than a narcissistic--and male--organizational culture.READ»

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Five Ways to Jump-start Your Company's Ethics

Want to make a real difference in your organization? That is going to take some hard, serious work. Here's where to start.READ»

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The Soft Stuff Is the Hard Stuff, and Other Lessons From Iraq

The metaphor that equates war and business is about as wrong as you can get -- unless you know what similarities to look for. For business leaders who are studying the war in Iraq, here are five lessons worth learning.READ»

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Stop...And Sell the Flowers

Two fast-track Dutch consultants decide that there's more to life than travel, presentations, and nonstop meetings. Their business plan for sanity? Selling tulip bulbs. Online. At a profit. Don't sneeze at the idea: The business is taking root.READ»

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Built to Scale

The leaders of Netigy are wrestling with a make-or-break question that's been the downfall of many promising startups: How do you get big in a big hurry? The answer: act like you already are.READ»

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In the VC Derby, Jockeys Come Up Short

Consultant Debunking UnitREAD»

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What's the Big Idea?

The Thinkubator helps people recapture their inner child.READ»

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The Brand Called You

Big companies understand the importance of brands. Today, in the Age of the Individual, you have to be your own brand. Here's what it takes to be the CEO of Me Inc.READ»

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Advertisers in Issue 8

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Advertisers in Issue 7

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Anthropologists Go Native in the Corporate Village

Get me Margaret Mead! The biggest names in business -- GM, Intel, Nynex -- enlist anthropologists to decode the rituals of corporate life.READ»

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The Mort Files

Mort Meyerson's cover story in the April:May issue of Fast Company prompted hundreds of e-mail messages.READ»

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Quattrone Questions

Yesterday, a federal appeals court overturned (subscription required) the May 2004 conviction of Wall Street uber-banker Frank Quattrone on obstruction of justice charges. At issue was not Quattrone's actual guilt or innocence, but ...READ»

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Scandal, Us

Three years after Arthur Anderson's conviction on obstruction of justice charges, the revisionists are closing in. The public has largely moved on, satisfied that something is being done even if the outcome isn't neat and clean. The ...READ»