Employees receive a gift card for reporting colleagues who don't use the word "team."

After a planning and implementation process that took over three years and involved over 130 focus groups, MooseSkunk announced that it is closing its Midtown Detroit brick and mortar store after just three months. “We have to accept what the marketplace is telling us,” says Jennifer R. R. Reynolds,  Chief...

As recently as three years ago, businesses whose data was being held hostage by ransomware attackers could expect to pay upwards of $10 million to retrieve their files unencrypted, the only way to get back to doing business. Last week, PulseTake, the Chicago medical planner, was able to get its...

The decision to start referring to everyone as “Boss” did not come easily for Leonard Tipton, a polemic analyst at Jackson/Tewksbury in Detroit. He had been mulling it over for six months, including making a list of 128 pros and cons and reviewing it for hours every day. It was...

Since men have long been accustomed to dominating the US workforce, many of them develop feelings of emasculation when they are required to report to a woman. Adopting a tough-sounding nickname - like "Ace" or "Spike" - can help reduce these feelings and at least partially restore self esteem,...

Mishap, the Corktown bistro nouveau whose glazed prawns were recently featured in Swallow magazine, is requiring its waitstaff to tell customers what to enjoy instead of just saying “Enjoy!”  The new policy takes effect on September 1. “We’ve discovered that saying ‘Enjoy!’ without specifying causes confusion and anxiety,” says chef/owner...

Monica Masterson, of Boulder, Colorado's Piltdown Group, broke through the glass ceiling on February 22 -  the first woman in the transactionals company’s 45-year history to do so.  During the process, however, she suffered some skull lacerations and a slight concussion, which rendered her unable to assume her new job...

Lavastoviglie – that’s Italian for “Dishwasher” – is Jim Parks' third Detroit restaurant, following Peaceful Cheese and Shove It.  It opened two weeks ago, and reservations are booked for the next five months. Parks attributes this to the restaurant's “focused conversation."  Each day a list of three topics is posted...

You’ve just just aced the interview for the job you want and think you should get - but it's how you follow up that will make or break you. From Hired! magazine, here is a five-point plan that’s guaranteed to land you the job you want: Send your interviewer a...

Since urban farms took hold in Detroit around 15 years ago, most have focused on growing crops for the health-conscious – sprouts, kale, chard, daikon, fiddleheads, etc. Starting this month, farmers Moira Jernican and Sheila Sanford are bucking this trend by devoting their entire three acres on the city’s...

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After just six weeks in business, Detroit Artisan Ice Cubes is already working at capacity “We're up to 33 cubes a week,” says founder Larry Petrangelo. “With just three makers, we can’t make more and guarentee quality.” The three – who also include former airline executive Madeline Fare and part-time...