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The Forefront of Financial Innovation Belongs to Tech
This week, The Wall Street Journal reported Apple's plans to offer peer-to-peer payments for its customers. Of course, between this news, Apple Pay, and the dozen other non-finance companies entering...
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Fan Duel/Draft Kings Stumble in New York
The Fan Duel/Draft Kings fantasy/gambling sites are shutting down in New York. Billions, literally, are at stake. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has determined that there is gambling in Casablanca,...
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Twenty-Eight Keys to Unlocking Organizational Culture
by Doug Kirkpatrick, US Partner at NuFocus Strategic Group There are myriad reasons to investigate an organization's culture. A job seeker may want to check out a prospective employer. A corporate...
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2 Powerful Traits of Successful Leaders
I enjoy volunteering as a VP on the board of the Atlanta Chapter of National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP). During one of our monthly networking breakfast meetings, Jenny...
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Radical Thinking Is the Most Practical Way to Fix Inequality
Adair Turner, Chairman of the Board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and former Chairman of Britain’s Financial Services Authority (2008-13), is the author of a new book that takes aim at...
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12 Hacks to Maximizing Your Part-Time Tech Hire
You hired a part-time tech employee because you needed help in a pinch. But you might be surprised on how much he or she has to offer. Here's how to get the most of the short time your part-time hire...
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Personalized Service in the Age of Digital Commerce: A Diagnosis and Prognosis
A rhetorical question for consumers worldwide: When did excellent customer service become a luxury? When did the primacy of the consumer fall victim to the capriciousness of indifferent employees, rude...
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Get Your Dream Job With These Four Job Search Hacks
How are you approaching your next job search? No matter how much technology impacts our lives and how we interact, there are still fundamental principles that will never change. Specifically, business...
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My Navient Student Loans Are Out of Control
Question:Dear Steve, I currently owe Navient $163,000 on my private student loans. After graduating in 2009 with few job prospects, I put these loans into forbearance for the first two years while I...
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Cuba -- A Failed Experiment
If you ever wondered what a country would look like after 50 years of total government economic controls, you need only to make a trip to Cuba, which I did last week. The history of Cuba is a story...
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Are Growing Benefits Slowing Wage Growth?
Wages have been growing slowly for years. Theories abound for why wage growth has flattened, from sidelined workers holding wages down to fears that "secular stagnation" is ushering in an era of...
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Will AIIB Be 'Lean, Clean and Green'?
During a recent public speech, the incoming head of the new China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) vowed to run a "lean, clean and green" institution operating to the highest...
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Why Managers MUST Focus on Emotional Intelligence
Getting to know people is an extremely difficult task. There are so many intricacies and traits for every individual that we'll probably never see two people that are exactly alike.Simple triggers can...
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In Veteran Hiring, It's Culture -- Not Numbers -- That Makes the Difference
In the wake of Veterans Day, we can take inventory of the pledges made by companies to hire more veterans. Typically, these programs receive two responses from the veteran advocacy community. Many...
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Oil Tankers Are Filling Up as Global Storage Space Runs Low
The rebound in oil prices is still not here, and new data suggests that it will take some more time before the markets start to balance out. Global supplies are still too large to justify a significant...
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Offers and Counter-Offers: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
My name is Mark Wayman, and for the last eleven years I have owned an Executive Recruiting firm focused on gaming and high tech. Compensation starts at $100,000, average placement is $250,000; last...
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The Cacophony of Corporate Cadence
Every company has a beat, a pulse, a rhythm called a cadence. Defining that cadence is something I talk about in great detail in my book, "Think Big, Act Bigger." What is the "pulse" of your business?...
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Why Is Tyson Foods Still Stealing from its Workers?
More than 25 years. That's how long Tyson Foods and its predecessors have ignored rulings that its "gang time" payment system for meat production workers is illegal. A recent Iowa jury found that the...
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Get the Home You Want Now -- Buy it Later
The image is of the Craigslist search results for a search in the Real Estate Wanted category on the phrase "want lease to own." Some of these are likely investors, but others are individuals who want...
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How China's 'New Normal' Growth Can Be a Catalyst for the G-20
This article is excerpted from a recent lecture at Tianjin University, China. This year's G-20 summit is being held in Turkey. TIANJIN, China -- If confirmed in the near future, a "new normal" of the...
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