Laurel Richie, the W.N.B.A. president, says she has learned to give employees “time to think and create and develop” — and to make sure they sense a share of ownership in their work.
Politicians on the left and right continue to attack the loss of American jobs, but have yet to develop policies to deal with globalization’s challenge to American workers.
After giving up her dream of becoming a dancer, Rachel Cooper came to realize that being an arts administrator “can be just as creative and fulfilling as being an artist.”
An entrepreneur turned his combination of scientific knowledge and passion for making vodka into a successful business.
If you’re a midlevel professional, a career coach can help you discover what you need to do to reach the executive level.
Hikmet Ersek of Western Union, who learned the meaning of diversity very early in life, enjoys celebrating cultural traditions from around the world.
A friend who is still looking for a job likens the process to “playing chess on a board I can’t see against people I don’t know.”
By responding to an unemployed person’s call or e-mail, or following through on a promise, we can help ourselves, too, a consultant says.
If there was any glass ceiling in her career, the C.E.O. of Penn Mutual Life Insurance and the granddaughter of Irish immigrants saw through it.
The waning of manufacturing in the economy may be resulting in a dilution of craftsmanship — long a vital ingredient in the American self-image as a can-do people.
California led the states with 38,300 jobs added last month, but it also posted the third-highest unemployment rate in the country, at 10.7 percent.
Retirees who were offered pension buyouts from General Motors are finding the decision, a lump-sum check or continued monthly payments, anything but simple.
A hundred years ago, craft guilds, facing a new world of corporations, rebuilt their power as industry-based unions. Their clout and numbers again in decline, another reinvention may be called for.
Stephen Case, the co-founder of AOL, speaks with Catherine Rampell on job creation and entrepreneurship.
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August 8, 2012
August 8, 2012
