The consumer watchdog group Consumer Watchdog issued a warning this week against purchasing heart pacemakers made by Tapson-Wise of Milwaukee. Rather than being equipped with standard pacemaker motors, the group has learned, the Tapson-Wise devices have been fitted with leftover motors purchased from The Clapper! company. They had been stored...

The Nevergo consortium of St. Louis notified its 1300 employees this week that it is no longer sufficient to give 110 percent. New requirements – which increase expectations to as much as 113.2 percent depending on how long the employee has worked at the company – were introduced. “With other...

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After a six-year evaluation, a task force at Houston's Falco Financial has conditionally recommended that CEO Marianne Willikin participate in the GDS Sludge Bath - where participants spend ten minutes fully clothed in a tub full of sludge to raise awareness for Gatson-Drake Syndrome.     “We consider it an...

When a staffer is passed over for a promotion she'd been expecting, she develops an alternate strategy: She simply moves into the office and takes the job.

Next Monday, at the Simms Museum in Cleveland, artist/repetitor Cala Moline will open the interactive exhibit FITS - featuring 1800 shoehorns that once belonged to noteworthy people. “It took us over nine years to get them all together,” says Moline, “including six months just to get 22 of Eddie Albert’s.” ...

The first day on a new job is always a challenge. There's a lot to learn, and it's important not to get discouraged.

Downtown Detroit is home to countless historic buildings. But did you know that many of these magnificent edifices were also the birthplace for some significant corporate events? Here are just four of them.

reasons most often cited is that the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing. That was certainly the case at Comstock Dependables of Muncie, Indiana, which saw profits decline by 40 percent over two years. To turn things around, on July 1 Comstock’s right hand started receiving daily...

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...

An Alternative Strategist puts himself in the CEO’s shoes by actually sneaking them out of his office and walking a mile in them.

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