You Can Now Make Custom Urns Using A 3-D Printer
A Minnesota startup is using a 3-D printer to create custom urns shaped like objects that were important to the person whose remains they hold. The Eden Prairie-based Foreverence offers urns that are...
View ArticleMost Microbusiness Owners Have Health Care Coverage but Benefits Have Not Yet...
BENTONVILLE, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--If you’re running a company of five or fewer workers, chances are you’re relying on funds for health care insurance from a source outside of that company. If you’re...
View ArticleWSIB's centennial milestone: Commemorating 100 years of service to Ontarians
TORONTO, Oct. 29, 2014 /CNW/ - One hundred years ago, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) opened its doors and began serving the workers and employers of Ontario, handling its first claim...
View ArticleWhat Authenticity Really Means
Authenticity. More than a current buzz word. The lynch pin necessary to create and sustain deep, connection between two married lovers. The only way to truly know someone's heart, intentions and what...
View ArticleThe Case Against Labor-Market Individualism
Ever since J.P. Morgan convinced major nineteenth-century industrialists that the key to averting recurrent economic contractions was to forego fratricidal price competition in favor of consolidation...
View ArticleWho Knew There Was so Much to Blue? (Northwestern University)
(Source: Northwestern University) Lapis lazuli, a semiprecious stone first mined in Afghanistan around 4500 B.C., inspired the first man-made blues. PrevNext Lapis lazuli, a semiprecious stone first...
View Article(Almost) Everything We Think About Managing Talent Is Wrong. Here's Why.
Today's workplace should look more like a jazz band (yes, that's a pic of me) rather than a Dilbert-style bureaucracy that looks more like a dysfunctional marching band. As Dilbert pointed out (in the...
View ArticleYour Cat Wants to Kill You First and Then Make You Crazy
No one would deny that we have been drowning lately in a tsunami of very bad news. If you feel that things couldn't get any worse, you should know that they just have. And, if you are a cat-owner, they...
View ArticleSEIU, Kaiser Collude to Defeat Proposition 45
Proposition 45 is pretty simple: It would grant California's elected insurance commissioner veto power over health insurance companies' exorbitant rate hikes.� That's it.� The job of the office of the...
View ArticleWhy You Should Brag About Your Failures
Trial and error is how we discover and learn, starting when we develop our motor skills at a very early age. After every stumble and fall, toddlers get back up on their feet and give it another go....
View ArticleBrands Will Never Win The Hispanic Market Without One Critical Strategy
Hispanics are one of the most misunderstood and undefined consumers in the marketplace. I’ve never witnessed an identity crisis much like the one Latinos are dealing with – fueled by America’s...
View ArticleThe Culture of Collective Impact
"It took a lot of time to build trust. People had distrust for years. You can't undo that in a few meetings""They don't invite people like me to their tables. I went to a meeting and it was all clearly...
View ArticleHouse Statement by the Honourable Kevin Flynn Minister of Labour WSIB 100th...
(Source: Ontario Ministry of Labour) CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Mr. Speaker, this month marks the 100th anniversary of the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board or WSIB. A hundred years ago - on October...
View ArticleThe Shape of a Radically Pragmatic College Education
In the five years preceding 2011, higher education enrollment remained constant. In the two years of 2012 and 2013, the number of college students fell, with the decrease evenly split between...
View Article9 Things You Never Knew About PayPal's Peter Thiel
Share More ABC US news | ABC Health News Copy PayPal founder Peter Thiel, 47, says the most difficult lesson to learn is to "think for yourself." The billionaire-investor is widely known as one of the...
View Article8 Things You Should Never Write In A Cover Letter
Applying for a job typically consists of providing two documents to your potential employer: a resume and a cover letter. While simple improvements can be made to a fairly...
View ArticleYour Office Coach: Rise above juvenile office rivalry
Q: Last week, a colleague called me to complain about a new program that I started. "Joanne" talked at great length about her own ideas for making the program more effective. When I pointed out the...
View ArticleAre you a psychopath? Your boss wants to know
Companies are trying to get better at spotting rogue or unstable...
View ArticleObjective Connect expanding globally (Objective Corporation Limited)
(Source: Objective Corporation Limited) Objective Connect expanding globally 04-Nov-2014 Objective Corporation (ASX:OCL) today announced that its secure cloud-based information sharing and process...
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