Dear Stanley, I work in a big financial institution. My company was taken over recently by another big bank, and now we have all new bosses. A lot of people were fired, most of my friends. Our department is smaller and everything is different. Everybody from my old company is now sort of a second-cl...

Bra manufacturer Vanity Fair has created an all-girl band who are contractually obligated to perform topless except for their bras, according to Ad Age. The Vassarettes (pictured) have only one song (see video below), but two YouTube videos and an elaborate web site. They sound a bit like the Donnas...

I am filled with ennui because the same conversations happen over and over. But sometimes it seems like little changes. Do any of you remember last April when there was a tempest in the Web 2.0 teapot about a search company named Spock and their choice sample search terms at a big demo at the Web 2....

A couple of years ago on a flight, Tony Buzan and I were duelling with puzzles. He stumped me when he asked what a "ghoti" was. Apparently, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was fond of pointing out the absurdities of English spelling by proving that "fish" could be spelled "ghoti". That is, gh as in ...

A couple of months ago, prompted by Mary Hodder, I blogged about the NY Times and its odd placement of a technology story about girl geeks in the Fashion & Style section. Well, they're at it again. And this time it is even more egregious. Check the article Diversity Isn’t Rocket Science, Is It? In...

The news: Anemic retail sales in April shouldn't surprise anybody. Any gain was attributed to Easter happening in March this year, creating one more weekend trading day in April 2008 than in 2007. If you combine March and April, the Wall Street Journal said, sales rose 1.1 percent, right in line wit...

Think you're making smart moves for your company? Maybe not. BNET sister site TechRepublic lists 11 dumb decisions that can take down just about any business, large or small. Start with these two: #2: “Human beings can be replaced with machines to answer our phones�  Today, it’s a treat when...

"April is orgasm month!" proclaim bloggers Em and Lo in one today's posts on Yahoo's new women's site, Shine. "Why? Because we say so." Shine looks to have jumped out of the gate at high speed after hiring eight experienced editors to create and manage the site's content. "The editors have been chos...

The Wise Men and Women of business management are rolling the dice, gazing into crystal balls, and blogging the results. I've summarized 5 predictions made by the stable of authors at Harvard Business. Retiring Boomers. The first Baby Boomers will head into retirement in 2008, posing human resource ...