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10 Open Enrollment Mistakes to Avoid
Fall signals a change in the weather and for many workers, the beginning of open enrollment -- the annual benefits sign-up period for the coming year. Open enrollment periods usually run for a few...
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5 Leadership Tips From a Serial High-Tech Entrepreneur
The millennium has provided fertile ground for tech entrepreneurship. There are plenty of opportunities these days to make your ideas see the light of day. But as your company gains momentum and gets...
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Save to Win 101
Playing the Lottery Without a Chance to Lose Who needs scratch-off lottery tickets and Powerball? Some credit unions are offering a program that allows you to win prizes as you save your money, at no...
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Time for the Nuclear Option: Raining Money on Main Street
Predictions are that we will soon be seeing the "nuclear option" -- central bank-created money injected directly into the real economy. All other options having failed, governments will be reduced to...
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Power Tips from the 50 Most Powerful Women of Crain's New York
What is "power"? Alina Okun of Analytic Partners captured it perfectly when she said, "Power is the ability to impact outcomes," at the recent event at New York City's Cipriani celebrating women's...
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What Young Indians in Silicon Valley Have to Say About Modi's India
This week, Modi returns to the U.S. -- almost exactly a year since his nearly 20,000-strong crowd at Madison Square Garden generated media madness in India and abroad. Modi's diaspora audiences have...
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The Institutional Racism Behind Getting to Proficient
It's been a great day so far and it's just 10AM. I had the pleasure of reading to my daughter's 3K Pre-School class and received an overwhelming applause from the cutest group of kids imaginable. All...
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How Everyone Wins When "We" Comes Before "Me"
A mentor of mine once said: "You can't be an outlier unless you want to actually turn the tables upside down." It's time the business world turns the tables upside down. We have to shift our focus...
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Taxi Medallion Bubble Bursts
While riding home from the airport in a Chicago taxicab recently, I got into an interesting discussion with the driver, who also drives for Uber. He explained that he "rents" his cab from the taxi...
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Three Reasons Labor Unions Will Prevail
If -- as so many Republicans, reactionaries and Chamber of Commerce minions would have us believe -- the American labor movement is more or less dead in the water, then there would be no reason to...
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The Road Between Employment and Entrepreneurship: How Do I Handle the...
I was recently talking to a newly minted entrepreneur. He was listing the things that scared him and admitted that one of his biggest fears is that he will be tripped up by the things he's not good...
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Marketing and PR Must Not Control Social Media Free Expression
It is tempting to use public relations, marketing and ethics to limit free speech. In business, the goals are to serve customers and maximize profits for investors, and free expression may be seen as...
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Young & Entrepreneurial: The WayUp Journey from College Project to Y...
Young & Entrepreneurial is a series of articles where I've decided to interview and write about young individuals disrupting the world. By sharing the stories of these individuals, I hope to...
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3 Simple Steps to De-Stress and Thrive at Work
After my yoga class this morning, I looked around and noticed how relaxed everyone looked. The chatter and buzzing from before class were gone and calmness had set in. So, I jokingly commented that the...
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VW Executives Can Learn From Wall Street
What's the Wall Street lesson for Volkswagen executives? Too big to fail companies can rip-off the American public, executives can earn millions in additional compensation, and no one is held...
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Thinking About Retirement Stress You Out? You're Not Alone!
Photo: Susana/Flickr Worrying about Finances Sucks. With the improving economy, consumer confidence and spending are going up. But so are lifestyle inflation and its evil sister DEBT. At the same time,...
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5 Stages of the Human Resources Life Cycle in Need of Improvement
Like many other areas of life and business, human resources has a unique life cycle. However, instead of focusing on the biological aspects of development, the HR life cycle involves the stages...
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How to Grow Wealth Faster Through Proactive Risk Management
Note: This post originally appeared on www.INGUARD.com. There are now 10.1 million millionaires in the U.S., up from 9.6 million in 2013. At the current rate, nearly 500,000 people will become...
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Equal Pay for Women Can Cut Poverty in Half, Boost Wages Significantly, AND...
Every September, the U.S. Census Bureau releases its update on income and poverty in the United States. I -- along with many other economists, policy wonks, data geeks, and others -- impatiently...
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Is Your Culture an Anchor or an Accelerator for Change?
A strong, vibrant organizational culture is the ultimate engine for accelerating change and adapting to new opportunities. It can also be an anchor that holds you back and contributes to your downfall....
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