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The Company That Sends Employees On Free International Vacations. Delta Cockins is 41 years old and she’s never owned a passport. She’s never needed one because despite years of working, Cockins, who’s been an inventory planner for the e-commerce apparel company Betabrand for the past two years, has had other obligations. "I help my family financially, so traveling [abroad] has never been an option for me," she says. Though they had other reasons for it, a lot of other Betabrand employees hadn’t traveled abroad either, says cofounder Chris Lindland, who discovered this during one of the company’s happy hours last fall. Lindland built Betabrand into a 60-person company expected to bring in $18 million this year by pushing the limits of branding with hackathons, crowdsourcing, and campaigns that have featured female PhDs instead of professional models.
Lindland thought the company’s spending could be consolidated onto one corporate credit card that would earn frequent-flyer miles for every purchase. But they had to work a little for it. 6 Steps To Be Viewed As More Powerful At Work. If there were any logic to our language, power could be a dirty word. Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer posits that the idea of power goes against most people’s idea that the world is a just and fair place. "It violates their basic belief that people can get ahead just on the basis of their hard work and good effort," he says. Even if the vast majority of people prefer not to acknowledge the presence of power in the workplace, Pfeffer says it’s as unavoidable as air or water in a recent segment he filmed for Insights by Stanford Business.
Summoning power isn’t as simple as it used to be. Fear not. 1. This is a person you could easily overlook. Gatekeepers and caretakers may be ordering gifts and booking travel for executives, but they’re also privy to high-level intelligence and scheduling meetings, the kind of influence that affects those at the top of the org chart. 2. With a power map in hand, it’s time to cozy up to the right players who can support your career goals. 3. 4. 5.
Netflix Sources Five Forces. Research Based on Teams and Success. Organizational Design Exercise :Miriam A., Steven L., Jonathan C. Fukushima Water: the fictitious energy drink goes on sale | Guardian Sustainable Business. A high energy drink sourced straight from the Fukushima site. It sounds absurd and it is. But for the three Berlin art directors behind a new digital campaign this fictitious drink also raises an important issue: Four years on from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, contaminated water - being used to cool the plant - is still leaking into the Pacific Ocean.
“We were blown away by how weird it was that contaminated water is still being poured into the Pacific Ocean and that people have no idea,” says Kenzi Benabdallah, one of the trio of friends behind the campaign. “The water needs to be stored because it’s highly contaminated,” says fellow collaborator Stefan Wittemann, “but [the tanks used to store the water] are leaking and water is running into the ocean. The exact numbers are very hard to get because the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) will not tell you anything and Greenpeace will tell you a super-high number. ” The water hub is funded by Grundfos.
25 Common Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs. Regardless of your definition of success, there are, oddly enough, a great number of common characteristics that are shared by successful businesspeople. You can place a check beside each characteristic that you feel that you possess. This way, you can see how you stack up. Even if you don't have all of these characteristics, don't fret. Most can be learned with practice and by developing a winning attitude, especially if you set goals and apply yourself, through strategic planning, to reach those goals in incremental and measurable stages.
The Home Business Musts Like any activity you pursue, there are certain musts that are required to be successful in a chosen activity. 1. What you get out of your business in the form of personal satisfaction, financial gain, stability and enjoyment will be the sum of what you put into your business. 2. You cannot expect to be effective and successful in business unless you truly believe in your business and in the goods and services that you sell.
How successful people overcome toxic bosses. Business Theory at Work. CSUCI MGT307-05 Class Collection. Oscars: ‘Boyhood’s Ethan Hawke On How Indie Films Survive “Corporate Maelstrom” Ethan Hawke scored his fourth Oscar nomination today for IFC Films’ Boyhood, and his second as supporting actor after 2001’s Training Day. What makes Hawke’s turn in Boyhood sublime is the fact he had to play the character across 12 years on and off; the divorced father of Mason (Ellar Coltrane), who grows from 5 to 18 years old. How did Hawke jump in and out of character? “When [Best Director nominee Richard Linklater] approached me with this idea, I had a clear idea of what we were trying to do,” Hawke said today after the film picked up six nominations, including for Best Picture. “I had an image in my head of remembering my dad when I was in the sixth grade through my high school graduation; the way he had grown.
If I could create a portrait of a grown man over a time period, then that was my job.” Every time Hawke stepped back into the role, whether “it was three months later, nine or even 13 months later,” he wouldn’t review previous footage to see where he left off. From Sharing Economy To Gift Ecology, by Nipun Mehta. Couple weeks back, Sam and I spoke at a local gathering in Oakland.
In casual conversation, the convener of our circle, Syra tells us: "I love that so many people are talking about sharing. See, I'm always campaigning for it," handing us a card for local sharing event. "But you know, I tried to get into this sharing conference, and it was 500 bucks! Doesn’t that just feel wrong? Most of us can’t afford that kind of sharing. " Like many, Syra consolidated two ideas into one: sharing and giving. Sharing has elements of inter-connectedness, of a village-like community, of a transformative altruism. It's a pattern we've seen before. Now, it seems like sharing is having its turn. On paper, it seems like a good idea to build an app to share my lawn mower with everyone on my block. Consider ride sharing services, that allow everyday folks to turn their cars into cabs. When what used to be shared informally turns into a formal, commoditized transaction, we lose something. More than Usher: R&B Revamped.
True soulfulness can be morphed, re-structured and layered, but never lost. Alternative R&B is accomplishing just that. Artists such as Frank Ocean, Jhene Aiko, Miguel and the Weeknd seem to have taken the classically smooth feeling of the genre and combined it with various electronic and independent influences to reflect a fresh generation. Thanks to the impact of these artists, many independent artists have been inspired to make their own mark on this emerging sub-genre. The term R&B has undergone a notable amount of change and re-definition since its conception. Its alternative offspring is no exception. Some might say the use of alternative R&B as a descriptor for this type of music is in fact highly undesirable and off-putting, as argued in a recent Fader magazine article. Photo courtesy of Def Jam. Frank Ocean, for instance, stepped onto the solo scene in 2011 with a mixtape that cemented him in the music world almost immediately through his unique sound and lyrical thoughtfulness.
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