If you’ve been on a number of job interviews and you still haven’t been hired, you might be doing something wrong - or more than one thing wrong.  According to the American Bureau of Job Placement, these are the top four mistakes that often disqualify candidates from being hired: ...

Anything a boss says in a meeting or anywhere else should be considered important. Those who nod continually while their bosses talk are assuring the boss that this is an employee he or she can count on to agree at all times. To become a skilled nodder takes practice –...

H2Only  – the new water-only tasting room on Third St. in Midtown Detroit – has been going gangbusters since opening last month. “We knew people wanted a place where all they could get was water,” says owner Jan Natinsky-Kickenen, who also runs Strong, the all-spinach restaurant a few blocks away....

After having served in her position for nearly 4,000 years, Mother Nature announced she will retire on December 31. Effective in 2026, The Workington Group/Spokane - which runs businesses ranging from nougat processors to toothbrush clip makers - will assume responsibility for wind, fire, and rain. It is still...

In today's competitive business world, multi-tasking and walking fast at the same time is the key to looking busy, and practice is essential.

In this age of corporate competitiveness, 93 percent of up and comers are continually seeking new and innovative ways to get noticed by the boss. While memorizing mission statements and stepping outside of comfort zones were popular in the early 2010s, more US workers are turning to the “yank the...

Aldemon Logistics of San Francisco - whose mission statement describes it as "customer obsessed" was arrested on May 15 for looking in the window of a customer. According to the company's attorney, Martin Filmore:  “The company was merely attempting to ascertain the customer’s dessert-consumption habits, so it could more-fully provide...

Seven people were injured Wednesday when the “Policy” and “Procedure” camps came to blows at the annual Business Terminology Conference in Wilmington, Delaware. The two sides each believe theirs should be the word companies are mandated to use when describing “a set of standards to which a company and its...

In response to criticism that its drone piano delivery has caused serious injuries to 111 bystanders when the drones dropped the piano, Milwaukee's DropDOWN says it has taken steps to improve safety. “We are obviously concerned about the well being of innocent people,“ says Ian Masterson, CEO of the fledgling...

When Molly Tallman asked the barista at Sacramento’s Drippish Coffee how many types of mocha lattes were available, she did not expect the woman to pull out a taser and stifle her question with 38,000 volts. Yet that’s exactly what happened to her last Thursday – and to hundreds of...

Q) The theme song from “The Beverly Hillbillies” has been running through my head for ten days. I can’t make it go away. I try thinking of other songs like “Disco Inferno,” but the Hillbillies keep coming back. I can’t even concentrate when I’m supposed to be brainstorming. I'm...

As brick and mortar retail sales continue to fall – due mainly to the increase in online ordering that began long before the pandemic – opportunities for loiterers have been shrinking as well. “It used to be you could count on a 40, even a 50 hour week,” says   ...