With so many of us facing the prospect of hunting down a new job, I thought it would make sense this week to focus on how to get the most out of your job search. First topic to tackle: the sticky question of when, if ever, to tell a prospective employer what you want to earn. Laurie Ruettimann at Pu...

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...

Revisiting Bob Sutton's The No Asshole Rule, there are clearly big exceptions. By many accounts, highly successful CEOs like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and Larry Ellison were all abusive and disruptive managers. So how important is it for managers to not be dysfunctional, abusive jerks?...

There's a real art to interviewing and hiring the right person for the job. These days, with so many people out of work, you've got a lot to talent to choose from. So do it right and you won't get screwed. Here's how....

Vladimir Putin seems hell-bent to let the world know what an asshole he is. Meeting Michael Dell at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Putin spurned Dell's offer of technological help, The New York Times reports. Following a speech Wednesday at the World Economic......

The Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Budget was due to be submitted on February 2nd but the incoming Obama administration has decided to delay it until April. The official press release is at Defenselink.mil. The budget is normally required to be in Congress at least at the top level on the first Monday in ...

It may be hard to believe that professional sports in America are now feeling the recession. The Yankees are still willing to shell out $160 million dollars to pitcher CC Sabathia. And you'd think TV ad budgets for sports will stay steady. Presumably, more fans will tune in for a distraction from al...

Microsoft's hiring slowdown hasn't translated to a complete hiring freeze. Among the newest of the Red-Pill poppers is Dick Hard, known for his take on the "Identity 2.0" concept and his porting of the Perl language to Windows. by Mary Jo Foley...

For the majority of the 5.4 million managers working in 30,000 companies, this certainly appears to be the case. As a country we are facing a crisis in management at proportions we have never seen. The magnitude of its effect is hard to predict and magnified due to the current economic meltdown. Pri...

Fed to allow 1.9 million acres worth of shale development on public land… maybe -- It's a perfect illustration of the kind of dilemma that the incoming administration will face with energy policy, caught between the rock of energy independence and the hard place of environmental concern. On Monday...