Topic: Wachovia Corporation

Does Corporate Reputation Matter?

Last week, Harris Interactive released their annual study of the most visible and reputable companies in the country. Based on a poll of almost 30,000 people, companies were ranked on a "reputation quotient," calculated by a variety ...READ»

Most Innovated Companies - Web

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By Any Other Name, it's Still the Same

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comNationalization. The word makes one shudder!  It might even drudge up old images of the hammer and sickle or Mao's men marching in khaki uniforms!  We've already mentioned the ...READ»

The Devil’s Paint Brush within Organizational Leadership

The Philosophy of LeaderShaping, the off-spring of the “Six Levels of Leadership,” depends heavily on “Communications” and “Intelligence” to be successful. When one or both of these elements becomes compromised, the result ...READ»

Crises Opportunities

Specific crisis opportunitiy long and short tradesREAD»

The End of the Financial World as We Know It

By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new role: financial lunatics. We’ve been viewed by the wider world with mistrust and suspicion on other matters, but on the subject of money even our ...READ»

CEOs Who Risk Big for Big Paydays

    Research shows that incentivizing CEOs with large pay and stock-option packages doesn't always have the intended effect of aligning their interests with shareholders. These six CEOs got fired because their risky moves ...READ»

• Why Incentives Are Effective, Irresistable, and Almost Certain to Backfire
• Incentive Clauses Gone Bad

Why Workplace Politics Charts the Path to Build GREAT Teams and Performance

When most people hear the phrase “organizational politics,” they react very negatively. They see politics in the workplace as forming clicks and another way to keep those who go against the status quo labeled as an outsider. ...READ»

Robert Scoble's 10 Favorite Tech Experts on FriendFeed

Fast Company tech guru Robert Scoble shares his ten favorite tech experts to follow on FriendFeed. From Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, to Jeremiah Owyang, an analyst at Forrester Research, these are the experts to watch. READ»

• 7 Ways Bret Taylor Uses FriendFeed
• FriendFeed: Twitter on Steroids
• Scobleizer: Why You Should Make Your Product for Early Adopters

Financial Chaos on Wall Street May Make Corporations Socially Irresponsible

Amid chaos in the financial sectors, the trillion dollar bailouts, and the cannibalizing of historic financial institutions around the world, there is a small stage being set. It is being meticulously prepared by the stage hands of ...READ»

Abusing Social Media

How companies abuse tech's latest tools and embarrass themselves.READ»

• 10 Web 2.0 Failures
• 11 of the Worst Facebook Applications

Director of Homeland Happiness

At Rudy Karsan's company, people grin at one another all day long. He's the founder and CEO of Kenexa, the leading human-resources-services company in America. Sixty percent of the Fortune 100, including Caterpillar, General Motors, Time Warner's, and Wachovia, hire Kenexa to help get inside the minds of their employees and build worker loyalty. Karsan's firm has pioneered new ways to blend psychology and technology. But his real secret is much more simple: A conviction that employees just want to have fun.READ»

• How to Find Real World Talent in Second Life
• Why We Hate HR

How to Make Banking Fun

Can innovative new programs make saving money as fun as spending it? READ»

• Silicon Valley's Angel Investors

Perspectives On Wachovia

I read in the news yesterday where Wachovia Bank lost $8.9 BILLION last quarter - mainly in the mortgage idiocy, apparently - and summarily laid of 6,340 people without so much as a 'by your leave'. 6,340 people is just about 50% ...READ»

Advertisers Target Captive Audiences

If screens seem to be popping up everywhere, that's because they are. In a DVR world, advertisers are reaching outside the home for today's most desirable audience: a captive one. Anywhere people might be waiting equals an opportunity to air short-form content and advertising. Tune in to the forefront of "advertainment." READ»

• Why You'll Be Watching More and More TV On Your Computer

Judge the Nudge

1. Paper Route USA Today became the nation's largest daily newspaper by getting inertia on its side. Twenty-two percent of its average daily circulation of 2.3 million readers comes from getting its paper distributed in ...READ»

• Get Laziness on your Side

Kate Millett

College: Wake Forest University Major: Communications Hometown: Carrboro, North Carolina Age: 22 First Job: Operations manager for Wachovia Bank in Atlanta. "I'm going to be managing a team of 15 people. For instance, if you have a ...READ»

Tom Robertson

Dean, Goizueta Business School at Emory University, Atlanta, GeorgiaREAD»

Playing Rookie

Graduating college seniors across the nation share their criteria, ambitions, and priorities for a first job.READ»

Al Gore's $100 Million Makeover

Not long ago, he was the butt of jokes--lockbox, earth tones, a postelection beard. Then he dusted off an old slide show and jumped with both feet into the private sector. The untold story of how an epic loser engineered what may be the greatest brand makeover of our time.READ»

Working for the Enemy

How to cope when your biggest rival snaps you up.READ»

The $8.59 Selfless-Service Lab

The pink-stucco and red-tile building, once home to a Red Lobster, blends easily into the urban sprawl of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A truck dealership is on one side, a nail salon across the street. But there's something different going on here at California Fresh Buffet.READ»

Leading Listener: Trader Joe's

Customer feedback doesn't have to come from sophisticated research. At Trader Joe's, it's all about listening to people.READ»

At Your Service

Lessons From the Customers First Awards Finalists.READ»

Putting Customers First

You'd think more companies would have gotten it by now. Unfortunately, organizations that put customers at the center of what they do are rare -- so rare that we're celebrating them. Meet the best customer-focused outfits, and learn from them.READ»