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Imagine this: a company arrives in town and offers the good people who live there jobs. No one is forced to take one. No one holds a gun to their head. The same company then has the temerity to say, “If you work hard and serve our customers well, we will promote you from within.” [...]

The most dangerous term in business

Isaac Newton always has the last laugh. And this time he’s laughing so hard you can actually hear it.Yes, I remember when you launched the airline David Neeleman. We even shared the dais at a speaking engagement at the time. Back then, it was all hoopla and fun and games as your first crews of [...]

This Blog Post is by Chris Kieff
Editor of Unconventional Thinking
Most of our readers get this blog via our email system. This means that you’ve most likely missed the lively debate that’s running on the blog about whether we are, to use the words of another blogger; “Rude, Crude and Socially Unacceptable“
Since the “Mark Stevens [...]

In her article “Be a Better Boss in 2007,” Forbes reporter Hannah Clark asks top management experts and consultants their management resolutions for CEOs in the new year.
A note from Mark: When you’ve got the chance to be quoted in article, don’t blow it by saying something ordinary, predictable, or boring. Being [...]