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How I Finally Left My Corporate Job And Started Working For Myself
Seven months ago I transitioned out of a corporate job in market research to work for myself full-time.By the time I left my day job to become a personal finance coach, I had nine clients, $22,000 in...
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This Man Has Quietly Transformed Corporate America
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Shareholder activists come in different flavors. One is the deep-pocketed investor, such as Carl Icahn or Dan Loeb, who takes big stakes in companies and forces management to...
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American Companies Have Basically Been Asking For Activist Hedge Funds To...
The rise of activist hedge funds in the last few years has American companies looking over their shoulders to see if an investor boogie man is following somewhere close behind.It's scary, but here's...
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3 Reasons To Eliminate Hierarchy In Your Company
Hierarchies seem like a logical way to structure a business. After all, if the initial idea was yours, why shouldn't you be at the top, telling everyone else what to do? Actually, there are some very...
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10 Steps To Landing That Big Promotion
Feeling restless in your current position and eager to move up? Want to do so without shameless self-promotion?We all know the importance of doing more than expected and doing it exceptionally well to...
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The Fabulous Life Of Carl Icahn, The Man Who Smoked Wall Street In 2013
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've noticed that Carl Icahn has taken every opportunity to shake up Wall Street in 2013.It's no shock. He started the year armed with $10 billion in cash.The...
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Why You Should Start Your Career At A Big Company
Fellow Influencer Bruce Kasanoff and I got into a semi-heated debate the other day about the merits of starting a career at a big company or small one.We decided it might make sense to publicize our...
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A New Group Has Declared War On The Carl Icahns Of The World
Investors and boards all over corporate America are tired of getting kicked around by activist hedge fund managers who buy up shares in their companies and starting shaking things up.So they're...
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New York's Storefronts Have Completely Transformed In Just A Decade
Ten years ago, photographers James and Karla Murray went out onto the streets of New York City to document the beautiful and unique storefronts that, for the better part of the last century, have been...
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Carl Icahn Told Us His Take On Piketty — And Trust Us, It Isn't Like Anybody...
Everyone is talking about "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," the deep dive into inequality written by economist Thomas Piketty, using a seemingly endless parade of data from countries all over the...
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'Indefinite Idling,' 'Redirected,' And 46 Other Euphemisms We Use In Place Of...
George Orwell wrote that"political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness." For the "1984" author, euphemism was a method by which powerful people...
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The Man Who Invented The Study Of Corporate Leadership, Warren Bennis, Died...
Warren Bennis was the world's most important thinker on the subject that business leaders care about more than any other: themselves. When he started writing about leadership in the 1950s the subject...
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CHANOS: 'Corporate America Is Not Growing'
Add Jim Chanos' to the number of voices worried that American companies are running out of gas and in need of real consumer demand to create revenue.In an interview with Bloomberg's Masters in...
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Prison Gangs Are The Rational Solution To A Growing Problem
IN 2009 Edward John Schaefer drunkenly swerved his motorbike over a pavement in the town of Marin, California. He hit a father and his daughter. The girl died. Schaefer was jailed for life. Some ten...
View ArticleSallie Krawcheck: Here's What Companies Must Do To Shatter A 'Mad Men' Office...
Sallie Krawcheck was recently named one of the "100 most creative people" by Fast Company. She's a former analyst and senior banking executive who now oversees the Ellevate network -- formerly 85...
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The 10 Biggest Corporate Disasters Of 2014
Some of 2013's biggest business fails left American consumers scratching their heads. Remember founder Chip Wilson's comment during a TV interview that "some women's bodies just actually don't work"...
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6 Lessons You Learn From Navigating Corporate America
While corporations don't have the sex appeal of startups, they employ a lot of us.As the Washington Post has reported, 65% of the jobs created since 1990 have come from companies with more than 500...
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The craziest thing about this legendary singing, anti-corporate preacher is...
On the rainy night before Thanksgiving, a man in the black and white outfit of a minister stood shouting in front of the Ferguson, Missouri police department, at the heart of widespread protests over...
View ArticleWatch the CEO of Howard Hughes Corp sing a duet with Vanessa Williams
A swanky party hosted by Boys & Girls Harbor in New York City brought together some big names from the arts, entertainment and finance industries on Wednesday night. The 2015 Salute to Achievement...
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Higher wages are here and there's nothing corporate America can do to stop it...
Wage growth is here.In February, Ross Stores, a discount apparel retailer with a market cap of $20.5 billion, said it was expecting more wage pressures in 2015.On the company's earnings call Thursday,...
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