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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 MORE

Sabbaticals Are Serious Business

Burned out? Take six months -- or just an afternoon. There are as many roads to 'creative renewal' as Hallmark has greeting cards.READ MORE

May Day! Hallmark's Site Down on V-Day

Hallmark, that ultimate purveyor of commercialized sentimental holiday cards, has taken its site "temporarily offline for maintenance," and "are doing a bit of house cleaning." Today? When all those too-late for snail mail cupids are ...READ MORE

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 MORE

How Is Your Company Like a Giant Hairball?

Gordon MacKenzie has been asking strange questions about creativity for years. IBM, Nabisco, and the FBI want the answers.READ MORE

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 MORE

The Future of Marketing Is Looking at You

E Lab Incorporated is reinventing how companies understand their customers and create great products. Its message: don't ask people what they want, watch how they live. Let's go to the videotape!READ MORE

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 MORE

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 MORE

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 MORE

A 4,000-Year-Old Valentine Marketing Opportunity

Here's what I hope my husband gives me for Valentine's Day: a replica of a 4,000 year old Sumerian tablet, about the size of a cell phone, that is inscribed with what's been identified as the world's oldest love poem. The New York ...READ MORE

Cent Valentine

Valentine's Day is coming up, and stopping by a Hallmark store earlier this week, I was surprised how easy it was to drop $25 on greeting cards. (Valentine's and St. Patrick's, combined.) So I was intrigued by a recent article in the ...READ MORE

In Today's Papers

Friday afternoon conversation fodder: Ambitions of India's Retail Revolutionary (Registration required) "Mukesh Ambani, one of the country's most powerful businessmen, has big plans for a sector dominated by small ...READ MORE

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 MORE

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 MORE

Web Sight - Let Your Customers Lead

Web strategist David Siegel says: "Don't redesign your Web site. Redesign your company."READ MORE

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 MORE

Changing the World of Senior Care

I was in Orlando yesterday speaking to the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives and got out of Florida just ahead of the hurricane. (Kind of a metaphor for my life, now that I think about it.) Be that as it may... Since ...READ MORE

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 MORE

They Have a Better Idea ... Do You?

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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 MORE

Get Your Heart On

The pressure to affirm one's love can be all-consuming, and if you don't believe me, ask Bennett Madison, author of I Hate Valentine's Day. The stress is particularly acute in people like me, who once paid to have an Italian ...READ MORE

Does Their Corporate Culture Pass Your Sniff Test?

How much do you know about the corporate culture of a prospective employer? Until you work there, you're in the dark, right? By reputation, a manufacturing company might be known as a meat grinder or a large law firm as a cold and ...READ MORE

Watch List 9/07

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

Walmart Strongarms Suppliers ... For Sustainability!

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