12 Ways To Spot A Liar At Work

Your boss tells you that “this change is for the best,” but as she speaks, you notice her stiff body posture and forced smile. Is she being honest with you?

Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things

Enron, Worldcom, Bernie Madoff, the subprime mortgage crisis. Over the past decade or so, news stories about unethical behavior have been a regular feature on TV, a long, discouraging parade of misdeeds marching across our screens. And in the face of these scandals, psychologists and economists have been slowly reworking how they think about the cause of unethical behavior.

Infographic: The Tell-All Signs Of An Overworked Employee

Column Five Media compiled some ways to spot an overworked employee even if the symptoms aren’t apparent. In general, women are more stressed than men with 86 percent of working moms admitting that their jobs stress them out compared to 74 percent of working dads.

Apple Dodges Billions In Taxes

Charles Duhigg of the New York Times has written another extraordinary article about Apple, this time focused on the heroic lengths Apple has gone to to avoid paying taxes to governments around the world.

How to Be Popular at Work

Whenever people gather in any social setting, there is always one person who becomes the primary center of attention. People want to be around that person, and unconsciously seek his or her approval.

How Sony Fell Behind in the Tech Parade

How the Tech Parade Passed Sony By.

Not All Jobs Are Created Equal

The year’s best jobs boast a good work environment, high salaries and are relatively low stress.

One Of These 15 Companies Could Be The Next Apple

The 10-year return on Apple stock is  right around 5,000 percent. You can’t take a time machine back to the ’90s and buy Apple.  But, you can invest in the stock that could become the next Apple.

Four Destructive Myths Most Companies Still Live By

It is not only four, however these myths are the most destructive.

Facebook’s Management Secrets

Facebook currently has 3,200 employees worldwide.That number, already up from a mere dozen people in 2005, is going to grow a lot in the next couple years as Facebook begins life as a public company. Facebook’s new Menlo Park alone will eventually house 10,000 people.

When Office Technology Overwhelms, Get Organized

HOW do you think most workers would respond if you asked them, “Do you feel more productive now than you did several years ago?” I doubt that the answer would be a resounding yes. In fact, even as workplace technology and processes steadily improve, many professionals feel less productive than ever.

To Find Happiness with your Work Life, Forget About Passion

Several years ago, a friend decided she wanted to follow her passion. She loved the liberal arts and academe. She was a talented graphic designer, a great writer, and was the president of a student club. But the prospect of working a nine-to-five job was never interesting.

Apple Management Lessons

Adam Lashinsky of Fortune has written the book, “Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired — And Secretive — Company Really Works.“. Some important notes from this book.

10 Psychological Techniques to Help You Get a New Job

Get hired using the fruits of psychological research on interview technique.

A Numeric Breakdown Of how Bad It Is To Work At Foxconn

An investigative series by the New York Times aput the spotlight on Foxconn, the Taiwanese company whose massive Chinese factories manufacture some of the world’s most popular consumer electronics.

The last Kodak moment?

Kodak is at death’s door; Fujifilm, its old rival, is thriving. Why?

The hot tech gig of 2022: Data scientist

By the end of the decade 50 billion devices will be emitting information nonstop. Data scientists will help manage it all.

10 Things Job Applicants Should Know

While there clearly are not enough jobs to go around, some people are getting hired. Every day, every hour, thousands of people are selected from thousands more who are ready, willing and able to work. The question is, why is it that some people get hired and some don’t?

One of biggest information technology companies in the world to abolish e-mails

One of the largest information technology companies in the world is to ban e-mails – because it says 90 per cent of them are a waste of time.

Be a Jerk: The Worst Business Lesson from the Steve Jobs Biography

Apple’s founder and CEO could be a cruel and nasty guy. He was also the greatest chief executive of our time. Don’t go thinking those two things are related.

Europe´s Ideal Employers 2011

Universum, a Swedish-based employer branding consultancy, reveals its research on the continent’s most ambitious career-seekers and presents their choice of Ideal Employers. Based on 60,700 employer evaluations, reflecting the opinions of 19,890 students studying at Europe’s top academic institutions, Apple and Google are respectively no. one for business and engineering students.

The Interview Question You Should Always Expect

Whether you are a new middle manager or a new President-elect, the common wisdom is that you have three months to make an impact in your new role. And yet when preparing for job interviews, candidates make the mistake of believing that most questions will be about their past experience, not what they plan to do once hired.

The 7 Dumbest Things Job Seekers Write on Their Resumes.

The advice of Rob McGovern, the founder of CareerBuilder and Jobfox . As CEO of Jobfox, a job search networking site and résumé writing service, McGovern sees the most common —and dumbest— mistakes job seekers make on their résumés. Here, he shares his top seven. How many of them are you making?

How to Negotiate Your Salary Like an FBI Agent

During a job search, candidates must adopt the skills of many professions. You analyze the job market like a research scientist, craft a resume like a best-selling author and network like a seasoned politician. There’s also an occupation to emulate at the crucial moment when salary is discussed: FBI Hostage Negotiator.

The End of the Middle Manager.

The technology revolution has brought us a lot—dramatic improvement in what we know about customers and how we interact with them, markedly better information for making decisions, the ability to work through virtual teams scattered around the globe. But its unseen legacy might be something much more fundamental: It has changed the very nature of how people work.

Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes.

Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of Apple, the company he founded and turned into the largest technology company in the world. Although his tenure as CEO will be remembered for ushering in fundamental changes in the way people interact with technology, he has also been known for his salesmanship, his ability to turn a phrase – and a knack for taking complicated ideas and making them easy to understand. Below, a compendium of some of the best Steve Jobs quotes.

Why Do Women Still Earn Less Than Men?

Last year’s tax returns may already be signed, sealed and delivered, but April 20 is the day the average American woman will finally finish earning her 2009 salary — at least, the one she would have received if she were a man. That’s because U.S. women still earned only 77 cents on the male dollar in 2008, according to the latest census statistics. (That number drops to 68% for African-American women and 58% for Latinas.)

11 Unusual Ways Steve Jobs Made Apple The World’s Most Admired Tech Company

Partner with the enemy

Can you imagine Pepsi and Coca-Cola getting together? Or Verizon and AT&T? That’s how strange it was when Apple and Microsoft announced their partnership at the 1997 Macworld Expo. After 12 years of financial loss, Jobs needed to get Apple money, and quickly. So he turned to Bill Gates, who made a $150 million investment in Apple.

Web Surfing Helps at Work, Study Says

Don’t feel guilty about browsing the Internet at work—turns out it may actually improve your performance.

According to a new study, Web browsing can actually refresh tired workers and enhance their productivity, compared to other activities such as making personal calls, texts or emails, let alone working straight through with no rest at all.