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The Worst Strategy

Elliot Spitzer's announcement that the record industry has been paying disc jockeys and radio programmers for radio airplay doesn't come as a surprise to many. Payola is an old and pretty successful strategy for promoting their ...READ»

Office Handbook

Chapter 3: Email.READ»

The List

In the June 6 edition of The Deal, Jeffrey Kanige offers his pecking order ot People Whose Opinion Matters to most executives: Head of compensation committee Eliot Spitzer Paramour Outside directors Maitre d' at Per Se Spouse Head ...READ»

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Office Handbook

Internal Memo: From the CEOREAD»

The Art of the Anti-Apology

Business has had a lot to apologize for. But is anyone actually owning up? We decipher executive remorse codes.READ»

The Secret Life of the CEO: Is the economy just built to flip?

Here's the truth: The problem isn't the market's rise or fall. The problem is people who react to events, rather than seek to create something great.READ»

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Telephone(y)

A researcher at Cornell has found that people are more likely to lie while talking on the telephone than in email. Lies were told in 14 percent of emails, 21 percent of instant messages, 27 percent of face-to-face contact - and a ...READ»

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What We Learned In The New Economy: Converge Those Actionables, Dude!

Did you speak New Economy? The vocabulary now seems strangely quaint, if not outright asinine. Here's a helpful glossary for those who have conveniently forgotten.READ»

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Eavesdropping on Email

Shades of a previous entry about online communications snoops in the workplace, yesterday's edition of the Wall Street Journal Europe featues two relative items. One, Alan Murray's column "Indiscreet E-Mail Claims a Fresh Casualty," ...READ»

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A Starter Kit for Business Ethics

Corporate cheating won't be stopped by regulation or legislation. That's why whistle-blowing is everybody's job.READ»

Letter From the Editor

Heroes and… others.READ»

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22. Dollars From Detritus

Previous | Next Forget Styrofoam cups. We could end up drowning in old motherboards and monitors. "One hundred million PCs will be retired worldwide this year. They can't all go to landfills." So says Stampp Corbin, whose ...READ»

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22. Dollars From Detritus

Previous | Next Forget Styrofoam cups. We could end up drowning in old motherboards and monitors. "One hundred million PCs will be retired worldwide this year. They can't all go to landfills." So says Stampp Corbin, whose ...READ»

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The CEO's New Clothes

Forget autocrats and visionaries. Farsighted, tolerant, humane CEOs aren't just nice to work for. They deliver nice results, too.READ»

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Last Questions

A Spy in the House of WorkREAD»

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Between The Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

Ivan Glickman
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The Leading Edge - Too little, too late for Eliot Spitzer, but maybe not for you

How to Earn Forgiveness and Rebuild Trust After Betrayal Too err is human, to take full responsibility for it, face and pay all the consequences, divine We and Eliot Spitzer may never know why he did what he did? It’s ...READ»

Mission of Burma, Way Out There, Payola Pays Off

Mission of Burma, Way Out There, Payola Pays Off

Very Short List delivers one excellent item to your inbox, daily: Books, films, music, web-things, and dispatches on science and technology. Today, meet the world's bravest journalists, see excellent experiments performed in outer space, and download thousands of free and legal MP3s.READ»

The Privacy Arms Race

Fancy new software lets managers spy on employees -- and employees evade the scrutiny. Um... trust, anyone?READ»

Donaldson under the Gun

So SEC Chairman Bill Donaldson is on the hot seat for being too "activist," i.e., trying to do his job. According to today's Wall Street Journal, some big business groups, including the Business Roundtable and the U.S. Chamber of ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
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What We Can Learn From the PR Maven

I recently attended a meeting where the Rule Number One of personal branding was violated: Never say anything negative about a person or company. At the meeting, a woman we’ll call Sue, was asked where she hailed from. A simple ...READ»

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We have 200 employees, and they work for you

I worked in insurance. Not glamorous and often actually quite the opposite until you get to the risk management consulting end of things. Then it becomes quite fascinating, although some I’m sure will fight me over how interesting ...READ»

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We have 200 employees, and they work for you

I worked in insurance. Not glamorous and often actually quite the opposite until you get to the risk management consulting end of things. Then it becomes quite fascinating, although some I’m sure will fight me over how interesting ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
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We have 200 employees, and they work for you

I worked in insurance. Not glamorous and often actually quite the opposite until you get to the risk management consulting end of things. Then it becomes quite fascinating, although some I’m sure will fight me over how interesting ...READ»

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Cowards of the Year

They came, they saw, they caved: These antiheroes turned their backs on what they know is right.READ»