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There’s an increasingly common practice in pharmaceutical interviewing in which the interviewer asks the candidate questions which are designed to induce stress. For example, a candidate who might have multiple academic degrees could be asked to go to the board and draw a simple cell. In...

5/5/2003 The keys to winning a job interview are to establish trust and communicate the skills you'll bring to your next employer. Nick Morgan explains. by Nick Morgan Most people misconstrue the task that lies before them in the job interview. Some think the interview is a kind of test, and to...

Once you've created a brilliant cover-letter and resume package, the next step to securing a new position is impressing interviewers. Meeting with hiring managers is stressful, but you can improve your chances of scoring well by avoiding common, yet costly, interview mistakes. Surprisingly...

Once you've created a brilliant cover-letter and resume package, the next step to securing a new position is impressing interviewers. Meeting with hiring managers is stressful, but you can improve your chances of scoring well by avoiding common, yet costly, interview mistakes. Surprisingly...

Once you've created a brilliant cover-letter and resume package, the next step to securing a new position is impressing interviewers. Meeting with hiring managers is stressful, but you can improve your chances of scoring well by avoiding common, yet costly, interview mistakes. Surprisingly...

Starting a business is like assembling giant mechanical watch in that there are hundreds of moving parts that must be timed to interact perfectly. Much like a watch has a face which is the external component that the world sees; an early stage startup has “the pitch” – the one facet of the...

Despite the jargony name, crowdsourcing is a very real and important business idea. Definitions and terms vary, but the basic idea is to tap into the collective intelligence of the public at large to complete business-related tasks that a company would normally either perform itself or outsource...

In the old days, waaaay back in the twentieth century, a clear line separated companies that produced products and services from the customers who bought them. Apart from one-way "customer feedback" and marketing research, the interactions between the two were generally sporadic and unfocused...

I recently watched an online video listing the things that managers do that de-motivate employees. You might want to check it out before reading the rest of this post: HOW BOSSES DEMOTIVATE PEOPLE. While the behaviors in the video are common and annoying, some of that stuff seemed, well, kinda...

Low morale can gradually destroy employees’ commitment, hurt the product or service they offer, and alienate the clients and customers they serve. It has many sources—poor economic conditions, a clash of cultures following a merger or acquisition, bad management, or any number of other factors...

Trust is so essential to business that it's easy to overlook its role in helping companies succeed, especially with regard to the personal trust between individual employees and individual managers. An in-depth article from Human Resource Executive gives some practical tips for managers in the...

“Job description” is a very mundane title for a document that serves so many important functions in an organization. Often outdated, overlooked, and under-considered, the failure to deal seriously with these humble documents can trigger considerable organizational erosion. If given the respect...

Teams are important because they can accomplish much more than any of the members could achieve individually. The team that functions effectively and efficiently brings together a diverse range of characters, skills, and talents, and is able to realize large, complex projects. Two factors need...

Chris Zook, head of Bain & Co.'s global strategy practice, has a new book out called "Unstoppable" that argues that the key to increasing the market value of your company is unlocking its hidden assets. Not only that, Zook says that large mergers can be counterproductive. Zook analyzed fifteen...

Earlier last month, Home Depot introduced a new “Eco Options” label meant to identify certain products as the environmentally responsible choice. Timberland, producer of footwear and apparel, has introduced a label that resembles the nutrition panel on U.S. food products — except it displays...

In the past, outsourcing gave companies a competitive advantage. But now that so many businesses do it, that advantage has eroded. So now companies have to think creatively to get the most out of their outsourcing operations. This helpful article from CRMbuyer.com breaks down how businesses are...

It's nice to imagine that the success of your career rests upon your basic competence at doing your job, but that's only half the picture. Raises, promotions, and other perks depend directly on how well you can manage your boss. If he or she doesn't warm up to you—or worse, doesn't remember that...

Is YouTube and MySpace the future of marketing? Maybe, but right now both of these sites don't carry the clout to get shoppers to dig in their wallets and spend cash. New research out from iProspect and JupiterResearch found that both MySpace and YouTube only got two percent of online users to...

A few posts ago, I launched a "worst sales manager contest." You readers came up with some definite doozies, but the absolute best of the worst (as it were) was: He's arrogant, he's sarcastic and he's the ultimate control freak. He fights (yes, physical slapping and kicking) with the other...

Discover how small and medium-sized businesses can grow faster and build market share quicker by outsourcing routine operations like payroll, HR, IT, and even manufacturing. Ashok Divakaran, consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton and author of "How to Be An Outsourcing Virtuoso," will discuss the...