Topic: Hallmark Cards Inc.

Are You Working With Energizers or Rotten Apples?

In this excerpt from "GOOD BOSS, BAD BOSS: How to Be the Best ... and Learn from the Worst," Robert Sutton tells us about those employees that elevate an office, and those deadbeats and downers that can destroy a company.READ»

Walmart Strongarms Suppliers ... For Sustainability!

Walmart Canada has committed CEOs of 24 of the country's largest companies to its "major sustainability project."READ»

No, We Really Don't Love You Beary Much: Help Redesign Valentine's Day!

It's become over-commercialized, over-wrought, and overly-red, and most people are simply...over it. Designers, we beg of you: Accept the Studio 360 design challenge and take back this holiday that's supposed to be about love!READ»

How to Write a Mission Statement That Isn't Dumb

Why most mission statements are dumb -- and how to write one that isn't.READ»

Web Based Project Management Software for Small and Medium Business

Web based project management software allows small business teams to keep projects on track, monitor budgets and share files and other information with co-workers from anywhere in the world where online access is available.READ»

No Small Feat: GiveCard Pioneers Microgiving

As the old holiday adage goes: It's better to give than to receive. But what if a single gift could let you do both? That's the idea behind GiveCard, a gift card that requires part of its value to be donated to a charity of your ...READ»

Ideas to Expand Your Portfolio of Products & Services

In the spirit of "Innovating with Meaning" in the New Year, especially during a time when the call for innovation can be heard loud and clear, we offer the following ideas to help you expand your current portfolio of products and ...READ»

Boost Employee Retention with the Perfect Christmas Card

Holidays are here and you know it is customary for you as a manager to send greeting cards to your staff. The problem is you hate the whole process. I am going to show you how to create a holiday greeting card like they have never laid eyes on before.READ»

Fast Facts About America's Bosses

Looking back over 50 years of National Boss Days (October 16), workers everywhere may notice one thing has remained constant: The big money is concentrated at the top, and the bigs are mostly men. As for the talent? Well, we have nothing controversial to say. After all, we're up for promotion. Right, boss?READ»

Made to Stick: Why Companies Should Pave the Way to Praise

Why do companies make it so hard to say thank you to the right people?READ»

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Granular Thinking is Not a Crime

I once worked for a boss who accused me of being granular or always looking at things from “in the weeds.” Ironically, that couldn’t have been further from the truth and maybe that’s one of the reasons I’m no longer there. ...READ»

Why We Want to Stay "Micro"Entrepreneurs

Hanh mitakyapi. Every so often, someone asks a question that seems really off in left field on the surface, but actually begs for a considered answer. Recently, someone asked me why anyone would "want" to establish a business with ...READ»

Dirty Marketing Campaigns

How marketers create disgust and embarrassment -- and why we shouldn't put up with it.READ»

• Modern, Manufactured Marketing Stigmas
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My Brand-Sponsored Playlist

Last night, while chopping veggies with the TV buzzing in the background, I suddenly felt the hypnotic pull of that song with the drunken-piano-indie-chick-voice oozing, "Hoping I could learn bit bout how to give and ...READ»

Now February

A calendar of events this month.READ»

Work/Life: I'm dreaming of a green Christmas ...

Now that the tree's going crispy around the edges, rubber fish on plaques singing "take me to the river" are being re-gifted, and the salutation on every email and phone message is still 'Happy New Year", I've been reflecting on the ...READ»

Watch List 9/07

The books, conferences, and people to look for this month.READ»

Fast Talk: Card Maker Tunes the Holidays

Ann Herrick VP, Strategic Music Alliances, Hallmark Kansas City, Missouri Ann Herrick, 37, puts together Hallmark's holiday music albums, sold at the 4,000 Hallmark Gold Crown Stores. So far, six Hallmark albums have been ...READ»

How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World? One. And You're Looking At It.

For years, compact fluorescent bulbs have promised dramatic energy savings--yet they remain a mere curiosity. That's about to change.READ»

5 Tech Innovators

From developing pocket-sized fuel cells to studying a worm that may hold the key to longer human life, the innovations of these five visionaries make them wizards to watch.READ»

She's a Paper Tiger

Is your office a mess? Is your company cluttered? Then don't mourn, organize! Barbara Hemphill teaches companies and their executives how to do more with less paper.READ»

The Blame Game

A Spy in the House of WorkREAD»

Beg, Borrow, Stimulate

Meeting I Never MissREAD»

Creative Tension

Corning Inc.'s Sullivan Park research facility is one of the most creative places in the world -- a place where brilliant (and unruly) scientists literally invent the future.READ»

Trust in the Future

When it comes to brand management, Kevin Roberts says that only two things are wrong: brands and management.READ»