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The best bosses get to know individual employees to tailor specific goals to them.
Hiroshi Mikitani, founder and CEO of the multibillion-dollar Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten, has a fundamental business rule: Anytime a company hits a “3 or 10″ mark in terms of employee count (30, 100,…
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Daily Archives: August 19, 2015
12 jobs you probably didn’t know you could do from home
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There are a lot of jobs you can do from the comfort of your home that you probably didn’t know about.
Turns out you don’t have to be a freelance writer or a graphic designer to work from the comfort of your couch.
“One of the…
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What It’s Really Like to Work at Amazon in the Wake of New York Times Exposé
This past Saturday The New York Times wrote an investigative news story on Amazon that addressed “how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions.” While the article included insights into why Amazon’s work environment is the way it is, it also included some…
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How to Tell If Your Company Culture Is ‘Going to the Dogs’
The phrase, ‘going to the dogs’ often carries a negative connotation. However, Glassdoor recently compiled a list of 10 companies whose employee perks include dogs in the workplace, and in this instance, ‘going to the dogs’ is a very good thing!
While not everyone would agree that permission to bring…
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