Business

5 Tips to Ensure Your Remote Employees Are Productive
18:09 2018-05-02

The digital revolution has done a lot for productivity. From project management apps to communication platforms, software has continuously helped teams work smarter and become more organized. It has also given rise to the remote worker, whose office is their home (or virtually anywhere else) and whose hours on the clock can be difficult to pin down. In a …

How Can You Be Sure Someone Has True Leadership Skills? Look for These 2 Rare Signs
17:06 2018-05-02

Everyone has a great boss story. Mine takes me back to 2005. I reported to an executive in a midsize hospital in Los Angeles. To this day, Bruce is my favorite boss because of his servant-leadership style. For example: He didn’t get caught up in his positional power and he made me feel like an equal. He was the most …

Amazon Hikes Up Price Of Prime To $119 A Year
22:11 2018-04-30

Amazon (AMZN) announced on Thursday that it’s raising the price on Amazon Prime, its popular subscription service, from $99 a year to $119 a year. Starting May 11, anyone who signs up for a new Prime subscription will find they need to pony up $20 more per year than previously. For current Amazon Prime users, …

T-Mobile Agrees To Acquire Sprint For $26 Billion
17:10 2018-04-30

U.S. regulators are expected to grill the companies on how they will price their combined wireless offerings. T-Mobile US Inc agreed on Sunday to acquire peer Sprint Corp, in an all-stock deal for $26 billion that will combine the third and fourth largest U.S. wireless carriers and is expected to attract regulatory scrutiny over its …

8 ways being too nice at work can backfire
00:44 2018-04-30

Being nice at work seems like a no brainer, right? Well, if you’re too friendly, you might end up holding yourself back in the workplace. Don’t ever let people take advantage of your kindness in the office. From a young age we’re taught to play nice with others and treat people as we’d like to …