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Growing Up–Choosing the Right People to Expand Your Business

How Hard Could It Be?: The Four Pillars of Organic Growth Revenue, head count, PR, and quality–if one gets ahead of the others, you’re screwed. From: Inc. Magazine, | By: Joel Spolsky When you build a company, you have to choose between two very different ways of growing. When my co-founder, Michael Pryor, and I […]

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Talking Yourself Out of the Job

How Not To Get Hired By Marvin Walberg Scripps Howard News Service It’s been said that you learn better when you’re having fun, so let’s learn how to get hired at someone else’s expense. It’s time for CareerBuilder.com’s annual survey of the most outrageous interview mistakes that candidates have made, based on 3,000 hiring managers […]

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One Bad Employee Can Really Damage Your Business

Angry Employee Deletes All of Company’s Data Call it a tale of revenge gone wrong. When Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job — and with her boss’s phone number listed — she assumed she was about to […]

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Identity Theft and Your Work Force

Identity Thieves Also Steal Brand Equity IN SOME WAYS, THE REVELATION that Hannaford, a regional supermarket chain, allowed 4.2 million of its customers’ credit-card numbers to slip into the hands of data thieves isn’t a big deal. After all, consumers are getting used to the idea that paying with plastic at any retailer presents a […]