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- Welcome to the New BNET
- Welcome to the New BNETGreat to have you backWe're getting lots of compliments on the new look-and-feel of the BNET site, and i hope that some of you regulars are also spending time checking out the new information we've added.The BNET Intercom is a part of that: a way for...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-05
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- The BNET Redesign... and Your Comments
- Thanks to everyone who's sent us an e-mail or posted feedback about the new BNET. We've built the site for you, and we always want to know what's working -- and what's not. We've had some great comments in response to our first couple of BNET Intercom posts explaining our...
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Millennials: The Dumbest Generation?
- We know that managing millennials -- i.e., Gen Y, Generation Tech, Adultolescents, etc. -- can be different than managing Baby Boomers, or even Gen X, but at least BNET gives the kids the benefit of the doubt. No so author Mark Bauerlein, a 49-year-old professor of English...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- BNET a 'Best Business Website' Finalist for 2008 Eppy Awards
- Some good cheer to pass along here in Intercom: Editor & Publisher announced its 2008 Eppy Awards finalists last week, and BNET is duly honored to have been named one of three finalists for Best Business Website in the largest category -- 1 million or more unique monthly visitors. The...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Are You Spending Your Time the Right Way? | HBR IdeaCast
- Managers who manage their time well not only get more accomplished, but they also set the tone for employees to be more proactive about their own schedules. Melissa Raffoni, author of the Harvard Business Review article "Are You Spending Your Time the Right Way?", shares techniques that will help you...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- "Lazy" Days of Summer?
- Going in vacation this summer? With the high price of fuel, increasing the costs of plane trips, road trips and even train trips, you might be better off staying home with a good book. But for how long? That depends on where you live. As BNET1's Jessica...
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- How Foreign Investment Benefits the US
- If you were scorched reading the recent flame wars over the desirability of foreign investment in US business landmarks Anheuser-Busch Companies and railroad CSX ignited by my BNET colleague Peter Galuszka, you understand why this subject is becoming a third rail in American economic policy debates. Now...
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Ethics, Leadership and Picking the Right Job
- Concerned about your workplace's ethics? The ethics of your leadership? You could be in the wrong place, say Ronald Howard and Clinton Korver, authors of "Ethics for the Real World: Creating a Personal Code to Guide Decisions in Work and Life." The book shows how to become...
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Hack Your Subject Lines To Improve E-Mail Productivity
- Want to get immediate productivity gains with your e-mail? Implementing some simple e-mail protocols can really ramp up your efficiency. GetPredictableSuccess offers these suggestions. Use the subject line coupled with EOM. If you can convey the entire message in less than 60 characters or so, put the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- How to Know If Your Corporate Reputation Needs Fixing
- When you're in PR, it's easy to get lost in the day-to-day dramas, crises and opportunities, and to lose sight of big picture. The name for that big picture is "reputation management." Essentially, reputation management is everything you do over the long-term to protect, enhance and burnish...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Answer Your E-Mail, For Cryin' Out Loud!
- Did you get that e-mail I sent you? The one that asked you to make me a spreadsheet by Friday? Or did it vanish into the ether? I don't know, because I'm not psychic and my inbox is empty. Here's the problem with managing via e-mail. Unlike...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Three Obstacles to Citizen Innovation
- One of the most interesting emerging ideas in business today is tapping into user communities for innovative ideas. Open source software offers a prime example of this sort of citizen innovation (a phrase I may be stealing from someone, but if so, it's inadvertent). Software isn't the only...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Convince Consumers to Indulge for Their Own Good
- As people continue to pinch pennies in a slowing economy, how does the seller of upscale products and services convince them to buy items that are impractical Hummer, unnecessary Amazon rain forest excursion, or expensively luxurious Lobster of the Month Club? The answer is simple. Lay...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Sarbanes-Oxley in Retrospect: In the Beginning
- We're coming up on the sixth anniversary of the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act which still stirs strong emotions. Indeed, when President George W. Bush signed it into law on July 30, 2002, he called it "the most far-reaching" business regulation reform since the days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Americans Suffering "Vacation Starvation"
- The Find: With the average U.S. worker getting just 8.1 paid vacation days a year, one blogger and author has diagnosed a case of "vacation startvation." The Source: The Escape from Corporate America blog. The Takeaway: With summer upon us, the sun out and...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- How to Teach Business Ethics, Unethically
- If business ethics can be taught - and I have yet to read a convincing argument that they cannot - how should such an important lesson be taught? In business school, perhaps? That would seem to make a whole lot of sense. Business schools seem to be...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- When Outsourcing is Just Plain Stupid
- Allow me to go on a rant today. As a journalist, I've been following with a combination of interest and dread the new trend of outsourcing copy editing to India. It's a cost-cutting measure, of course. But it's the most patently idiotic thing I've heard in ages. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- New Business Word of the Day: Chindia
- ChangeThis has an excerpt from "Chindia Rising:How China and India Will Benefit Your Business," by Jagdish N. Sheth. If the excerpt provides a model for the whole book, the writing is slightly jarring, like the name 'Chindia' itself. Many of the assertions seem overstated. Sheth argues for...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Visualize Search Results with Searchme
- Let's face it: Nothing beats Google when it comes to Web searches, but its actual search-result pages could use some work. Specifically, it's not always easy to tell if you've found what you're looking for just by looking at the text snippet that accompanies each link....
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- The C-Level Isn't Reading Newspapers Anymore: They're on the Web
- There's a fascinating study that came out from Forbes.com and Gartner about the media habits of C-level executives. The key takeaway: the C-level gets more of its information from the web than from traditional media. This blows apart the argument regarding online media relations and blogger relations...
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
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