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ObamaCare won’t cost America 2 million jobs, but the end of the Baby Boomers probably will

Big-time hubbub on the 2014 political front: ObamaCare is going to cost America 2 million jobs! Every Democrat is vulnerable! And… In reality, this isn’t going to happen the way it’s being discussed, but the amount of people in the U.S. workforce is… Continue Reading

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The middle ground of setting goals for your employees at work is extremely murky

No matter what type of work you do — white-collar, blue-collar, physical therapist, construction worker, corporate CIO — everything comes back, ultimately, to goals. (Not to get too deep here, but so does life.) When you end up managing others, you… Continue Reading

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The humble beginnings of Google and its data centers: a cage next to eBay and enough for two million queries per day

Google is secretive about their data centers — only logical, as they’re a source of competitive advantage for the company — but they have some public pages about them, including a behind-the-scenes look and a location map of 12-13 established locations… Continue Reading

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Is Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods or soccer ultimately responsible for the best NIKE ad of all-time?

NIKE isn’t an official sponsor of the next two grand-scale global sporting events — the Winter Olympics, starting tonight, or the World Cup, starting this summer — but it’s really hard to talk about sports and marketing without talking about… Continue Reading

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What’s up with the over-use and obsession on acronyms in American business and professional culture?

I take business school classes right now, and b-school students notoriously love the acronym, so some of these examples I’m going to delightfully pepper throughout this post are probably irrelevant to the broader world, but eh … you win some,… Continue Reading

Every iPad and iPhone ever sold contains a chip from ARM Holdings. Yet that company only made $1 billion last year. What?

Wrap your head around this stat for a second: 64 percent of the world has access to proper sanitation (that’s somewhat of a low number, yes) and about 74 percent of the world has access to electricity (again, lower than… Continue Reading

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Facebook turns 10 today, and 57 percent of all adults are using it. But the company has issues, to be sure.

If Facebook were a person — wrap your head around that for a second — it would now be in fourth grade. It debuted on February 4, 2004, so, by simple math, it turns 10 today. Weird. I’ve written about… Continue Reading