The CEO assigns his top VP to organize a mandatory gathering at a local bar, to provide an opportunity for him to mingle and "rap" with the regular folks.

With phone apps like these coming to market this year, it’s no wonder that Detroit app developer Drumple has seen its price-per-share rise from $2.34 to $2,539.00 in just the past six months: Pulsification: Aggregates the USA's top 25 corporate pulses and sorts them three ways - by the number...

October of 2022 was a grim time at Santa Fe's Silver & Post.For the first time in the company's 105-year history, it was going to miss achieving its monthly financial budget goa l– all due to a $556 flip chart invoice that had fallen between two desks. Finance VP Mark Swetland...

Many an up and comer has seen his career unwind after getting tongue-tied around the big shot at the next urinal. Cheek to Cheek – the new book by Neil Harrison, Professor of Corporate Interactions  at Pasmer College – aims to prevent this.  “I can tell you about one guy...

Before 2015, the think tank business was highly profitable. Most contracted with large organizations that provided enough funding for dozens of people to think about just one thing for many years. “Those days are gone,” says Sheila Landsdowne, founder of Landsdowne Thinkables. “Today if people pay you to think, they...

A promo for our friends at the Detroit Experience Factory. Cubicle F CEO Paul Lang tells you how to enter to win the grand prize by visiting lots of Detroit bars and restaurants between now and September 1 2014.

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,...

Insurance giants GEICO, AFLAC and Progressive aggressively defended their animal-advertising practices yesterday amid reports that the GEICO Gecko, the AFLAC Duck, the Progressive Pig and other high profile insurance industry spokes-animals were being held in appalling conditions at a Biloxi Mississippi compound shared by the companies. In a joint statement,...

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.

After 40 years and thousands of businesses hellbent on getting rid of him, the Middleman has finally thrown in the towel. On May 1, he enrolled in Midwest Barber College of Ashtabula, Ohio. “I needed something more dependable,” he says. With so many companies eliminating him, he says he's earning...

When employees of Milwaukee's Turner-Marx failed to gather around the new water cooler, which had been purchased solely to facilitate conversation and encourage camaraderie, CEO Paul Lang launched a mandatory water cooler initiative.