Business people who are skating on thin ice now have only a couple weeks go get off it – around a third of the time they had in 2000. "Twenty years ago you had at least six weeks to get your act together," says business modulator Dr. Felicia Wringley of...

On Tuesday, Corporate America tracked down the man responsible for the majority of workplace rumors spread across the country. It turns out that San Diego accruals clerk Edward Mantell has started 78 percent of the rumors floating around US offices – ranging from improprieties at Fortune 500 companies to the...

It’s a typical night at NIFE, a new Detroit facility specializing in corporate team building.  Twenty-four employees of Midtown’s Matson Reductions maneuver cautiously around the 15,000 square foot space. Knives in hand, their eyes dart back and forth looking for opportunities. Their goal: To stab as many people in the...

Think tanks were identified as one of the top ten growth industries in 2017. Now, veteran think tank analyst Mary Wheaton has released a guide for entrepreneurs thinking about opening think tanks of their own. Think About What You'll Be Thinking About (Pullman Press) offers many practical suggestions, including: Demanding...

Cubicle F staffers Maria Safi, Mike N. Kelly and Christy Edwards rehearse a new musical number on a street piano outside "The Cube" - one of the many Downtown Detroit buildings owned by Dan Gilbert, and one of three that had pianos outside while the weather was warm. This song's...

Shared workspace provider Jam’D was losing thousands of clients last summer, due to people not wanting to get within six feet of each other. Faced with the expense of maintaining 3400 workspace facilities averaging 16,000 square feet apiece, the company was within days of going under.  Then founder and CEO...

To protect young Corporate Americans from serious injury, the Business Expression Institute has just published Feet to the Fire!– a listing of 1355 business clichés that could prove harmful if taken literally. “Young up and comers haven't been exposed to cliches,” says BEI spokesperson Paula Solomon. "So if the boss...

When he first mentioned it a couple months ago, it was lumped in with other campaign promises: “We’re going to build a wall, we’re going to get rid of Obamacare, we’re going to abolish tornadoes…” So nobody paid much attention to Donald Trump’s May 23 speech – except Fred Hensley,...

It was announced Thursday that the Michigan group Cost Analysts Without Borders will send a team of 12 analysts to Ohio next week to help that state work through its backlog of analysis. "There are literally thousands of costs that need to be analyzed," says MGCA spokesperson Jim Addison, "and...

Q: I'm new in my department and my boss is very demanding. If I'm working on a project, sometimes he says he's going to "hold me accountable." Other times he tells me he's going to "hold my feet to the fire." What's the difference...

Two managers at the Danzig Co. were injured this week in a “Hallway Rage” incident, the second occurrence in a month at the San Antonio condiment dispenser maker – and the latest of over 5,000 similar confrontations across the US so far in 2019. Hallway rage is caused when business...

A simple typo has led to record earnings for Nortown Techniques. It began with this January 3 memo from CEO Jerry Widleman to VP/Human Resources Marilyn Nils: To provide a more positive return to shareholders, we must improve our revenue picture in 2017.  I am therefore mandating that the workforce be...