Tasting Success
By The Editors
A wine maven makes a business out of pleasure.
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How to Cha Cha
By Denis Wilson
ChaCha, the burgeoning mobile information service, is taking on Google one question at a time. We shot some questions to co-founder Brad Bostic about what keeps ChaCha bopping.
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Lip Service
By The Editors
We rate seven balms to help you pucker up.
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Tix Fix
By The Editors
When Springsteen plays the Garden, he’s got a huge ticketing apparatus behind him. For everyone else, there’s TicketLeap.
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Spin Cycle
By Dave Allen
Sure, it’s a merry-go-round, but in a rotational program, you don’t get off where you get on.
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Here's What I Know: Tim Sanders
By Fred Cohn
Tim Sanders left his berth at Yahoo! (first as chief solutions officer, then as leadership coach) and took his business know-how on the road. His current obsession: corporate social responsibility.
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The Fire Within
By Liza Schoenfein
At ‘21’, they know how to beat the winter chill.
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Lap It Up
By The Editors
Laptops are the modern-era workhorse. We expect them to carry the load of our daily duties—from organizing this week’s Mp3 playlist to next year’s budget. Isn’t it time to show them a little TLC?
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Pffft!
By Adam Weinstein
The financial crisis has punctured their dreams of glory on the Street. Now MBAs are figuring out their next step.
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Women Warriors
By Gwenda Blair
Armor isn’t everything. When women do battle in the workplace, they need the right ammunition.
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Designing Woman
By Wayne Kalyn
Marissa Mayer—the engine behind Google’s search business—on how low-tech MBAs can compete in a company of geeks (Hint: No, it’s not kissing butt).
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Diving In
By By David Blend, Michelle Boyde, Anne Dunham, Jacob Kalish, Maria Spinella, and Dirk Standen
How to make a splash the first weeks on the job.
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Year In Review
By Denis Wilson
Seventeen Business Screw-Ups of 2008. From the greedy, to the dumb, to the crazy, to the downright illegal.
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Signature Style
By The Editors
What makes CEOs tick? Handwriting analyst Arlyn Imberman looks at the signatures of Fortune 100 honchos, and tells us what’s inside their brains.
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Turn On, Tune In
By Liz Seasholtz
Now that nearly everyone has an iPod growing out of their ears, the term podcast doesn’t sound quite as geeky as when it first launched. And in the past few years, the variety and quality of podcasts have really picked up—meaning there’s little excuse for being out of touch with the business-world zeitgeist. We weeded through the vast tangle of podcasts to find a few of the most helpful.
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Corporate Caveats
By Cara Scharf
Despite what the title suggests, Billion Dollar Lessons (Portfolio, $25.95) is not about Wall Street’s current hard luck. Yet the subject matter is all the more relevant when the markets are down for the count.
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Recruiter Recon
By Sarah Baicker
A consulting session on getting a job at Bain & Company
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Buss Stop
By Dave Allen
In The Devil Wears Prada, Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestley projects icy authority, but at parties she delivers carefully planned pecks on the cheek. It’s a power move—and an effective one—but will it work for every businesswoman?
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Perfection - why hide it?
By Michael Steiner
During the course of an interview, recruiters always say: “So tell me about your weaknesses.” I don’t have any to speak of. But since they ask, can you give me a smart boilerplate answer that will make me look human without tarnishing my superstar opinion of myself?
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Do we have to be kind to our elders?
By Michael Steiner
I am 32 and have just been promoted over a 50-something graybeard. We’re light-years apart in terms of skills and ambition. How do I help him understand that he shouldn’t hate me because I snagged the brass ring? Or should I even bother? (If he doesn’t work with me, I can fire his ass.)
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Isn't email enough?
By Michael Steiner
I’m a manager in a tech startup. I’m up to my ears in phone calls and text messages. I don’t have time to talk face-to-face, so I’ve been emailing employees about small—and sometimes big—things. Now some of my reports are pissed off that I don’t sit down with them. My first reaction is “Hey, I’m busy as hell. Work with me here.” Any advice?
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