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Fast Talk: Card Maker Tunes the Holidays

BY Cora Daniels
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:21 AM

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»

PERSONAL GROWTH | 1 comment

Sabbaticals Are Serious Business

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:40 PM

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

INTERNET + WEB | 3 comments

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

Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Feb 14, 2005 at 2:24 PM

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»

INNOVATION | 2 comments

How Is Your Company Like a Giant Hairball?

BY Anna Muoio
Relevancy Score: 88
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 11:48 PM

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

LEADERSHIP MENTORING | Comment

5 Tech Innovators

BY Scott Kirsner
Relevancy Score: 84
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:44 AM

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»

EMPLOYEE RETENTION | 3 comments

Boost Employee Retention with the Perfect Christmas Card

BY James Robbins
Relevancy Score: 72
Wed Dec 3, 2008 at 1:29 PM

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»

INNOVATION | Comment

The Future of Marketing Is Looking at You

BY Bruce G. Posner
Relevancy Score: 72
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:41 PM

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»

WEB BASED PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE | Comment

Web Based Project Management Software for Small and Medium Business

BY WizeHive Collaborative Software
Relevancy Score: 69
Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 4:37 PM

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»

BOOTSTRAPPING | Comment

Why We Want to Stay "Micro"Entrepreneurs

BY Carel Two-Eagle
Relevancy Score: 65
Sat Jun 28, 2008 at 1:38 PM

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»

MARKETING | 1 comment

A 4,000-Year-Old Valentine Marketing Opportunity

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 63
Tue Feb 14, 2006 at 3:41 PM

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»

CULTURE | 5 comments

Cent Valentine

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 62
Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 12:32 PM

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»

NEWS + CURRENT EVENTS | Comment

In Today's Papers

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 62
Fri Oct 20, 2006 at 3:53 PM

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»

INNOVATION | 2 comments

My Brand-Sponsored Playlist

BY Danielle Sacks
Relevancy Score: 52
Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 3:13 PM

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»

CUSTOMER SERVICE | Comment

Web Sight - Let Your Customers Lead

BY Katharine Mieszkowski
Relevancy Score: 47
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:14 AM

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

GIVECARD | Comment

No Small Feat: GiveCard Pioneers Microgiving

BY Ben Paynter
Relevancy Score: 43
Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 4:02 PM

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»

HEALTHCARE + MEDICINE | 1 comment

Changing the World of Senior Care

Relevancy Score: 41
Fri Aug 13, 2004 at 5:15 PM

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»

50 YEARS OF BOSS DAY | 3 comments

Fast Facts About America's Bosses

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 39
Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 5:01 AM

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»

LEADERSHIP MENTORING | 1 comment

They Have a Better Idea ... Do You?

BY Anna Muoio
Relevancy Score: 37
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:46 PM

Unit of OneREAD»

CAREERS | Comment

Does Their Corporate Culture Pass Your Sniff Test?

BY Rusty Weston
Relevancy Score: 35
Tue May 8, 2007 at 10:26 PM

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»

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Watch List 9/07

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 35
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:23 AM

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

WORK/LIFE | 1 comment

Get Your Heart On

BY Tom Stern
Relevancy Score: 35
Wed Feb 14, 2007 at 1:21 PM

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»

LEADERSHIP | 7 comments

Granular Thinking is Not a Crime

BY Shawn Graham
Relevancy Score: 35
Mon Sep 8, 2008 at 8:25 AM

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»

WORK/LIFE | 2 comments

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

BY Lynette Chiang
Relevancy Score: 33
Fri Jan 4, 2008 at 8:36 PM

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»

BRANDING | 30 comments

When Good Brands Do Bad

Relevancy Score: 31
Fri Nov 5, 2004 at 5:37 PM

So many readers were angered by Bill Breen's remarks on the Presidential election yesterday that it brought to mind some new research from the Stanford School of Business. The new study, "When Good Brands Do Bad," explores what ...READ»

LEADERSHIP | Comment

Beg, Borrow, Stimulate

BY Anna Muoio
Relevancy Score: 30
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:23 AM

Meeting I Never MissREAD»

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