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Submit Your Content to BNET: BNET is visited by millions of people every month, people looking for the kind of savvy management information that your business can provide. Did you know you can submit your content -- including white papers, case studies, webcasts and articles -- to be listed in our Business Library directory? ...; Tags: Michael Mattis; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Embed BNET Videos: Now you can post BNET videos on your own website or blog. Simply follow the simple instructions in the embedded video above. by Michael Mattis; Tags: Corporate communications, Michael Mattis, BNET Video, video; Blog posts 2008-05-02
BNET Gets Social: We recently launched a new tool that allows you, dear BNET reader, to bookmark and share BNET content via your favorite social bookmarking and sharing sites, such as Stumbleupon, del.icio.us, Digg, and a stack of others. So don't be shy about sharing. At...; Tags: Michael Mattis; Blog posts 2008-05-02
BNET Goes International: To celebrate the launches of BNET UK and BNET Australia, we crafted this video asking business managers tough questions, like "Have you ever had an office romance?" Some of their candid answers might surprise you. by Michael Mattis; Tags: Corporate communications, Michael Mattis; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Is Y! Morale in the WC?: Things are tough all over. But with lay-offs, a massive brain drain and a looming hostile take-over bid from the allegedly Evil Empire (Gates' Microsoft, not Reagan's Soviet Union), times are especially tough for loyal Yahoos. Says PassiveAggresiveNotes.com's Yahoo tipster: "First they took away our right to...; Tags: Michael Mattis; Blog posts 2008-04-30

CEO Pay vs. Your Pay: The question is often asked, "Are American CEOs paid too much?" The answer depends on who you ask. European CEOs will often physically blanch when talking about their compensation compared to that of their American counterparts. And American legislators have called for more transparency, though some American analysts counter that...; Tags: Benefits, Michael Mattis, compensation; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Interview Etiquette Gone Bad: As Jessica Stillman noted in yesterday's BNET1, young job interviewees are failing in basic interview etiquette -- you know: texting on their mobiles, chewing gum, casually dropping f-bombs; the sort of stuff us 40-somethings tried to get away with in our high school social studies classes. One...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Michael Mattis, Jessica Stillman, sales; Blog posts 2008-04-24
Get Lucky at the Office: While St. Valentine's Day has come and gone, it is Spring and love is in the air. In the video above, Office Mate author, Stephanie Losee, explains why the office, traditionally considered off-limits for lovers, is actually the ideal place to find your potential soul mate. ...; Tags: Michael Mattis, Office Mate, Penelope, Microsoft Office; Blog posts 2008-04-23
The Tao of Tea: Late last week we launched Stirling Performance, our resource for news and commentary on business issues affecting management and leadership in the United Kingdom. Afternoon tea is, of course, one of the UK's many gifts to the world, along with fish and chips, Fawlty Towers and the...; Tags: Michael Mattis, Afternoon Tea, Tao; Blog posts 2008-04-17
Malcolm Gladwell: How to Make Better Decisions: 'Blink' author Malcolm Gladwell talks up the crowd at RSA 2008 in San Francisco about how TMI too much information can actually impair your judgment and lead to bad decisions, almost like booze. In the second part of his presentation, Gladwell centers on how you can restore...; Tags: Judgment, Decision, Michael Mattis; Blog posts 2008-04-16
On Her Majesty's Blogging Service: This weekend we added a new blog to BNET Insight, Sterling Performance. This new resource will provide incisive news and commentary on business issues affecting management and leadership in the United Kingdom. Sterling Performance aims to be a veritable MI6 of business, connecting the big corporate stories...; Tags: Michael Mattis, blogging, Sterling Performance, Brits; Blog posts 2008-04-14
For Google and Yahoo, Japan Could be the Next China Syndrome: Google and Yahoo could soon be facing the same kinds of ethical and strategic dilemmas in Japan that they have faced in China. A Japanese government panel convened by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications recently proposed that the government regulate Web content, much like it does television and...; Tags: Google Inc., Japan, Yahoo! Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Mattis; Blog posts 2008-04-09
Sales Machine's Geoff James Gets Kudos: Indulge us while we toot our own horn. The New York Enterprise Report, a publication aimed at helping small businesses grow, has singled out Geoffrey James's Insight blog, Sales Machine. In the article, "Five Blogs That Can Help Your Sales," Nigel Edelshain says: "This is a serious...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Michael Mattis, sales, Sales Machine, blog; Blog posts 2008-04-03
Pure March Madness?: We asked the question yesterday, will March Madness topple the economy? Heck, does this veritable virus threaten Western Civilization itself? Perhaps all life on Earth? Well, maybe not. But, like it or not, it's a part of our office lives for the next couple...; Tags: Michael Mattis, March Madness; Blog posts 2008-03-21
Where the Chatter is on BNET: Former CEO Magazine editor, William Holstein, has shaken things up with his post on H1-B visas, with people coming down vehemently on all sides of the issue. What do you think? Are H1-B visas good for America? Do they help keep jobs from going overseas? Or do they solely serve...; Tags: Michael Mattis, H1-B Visas; Blog posts 2008-03-17
Just What is Everyone Bitching About? Boeing's as International as Airbus: Granted, it's not hard to get Lou Dobbs all twitterpated. It's part of his schtick. Earlier this week, CNN's bloviator-in-chief was puffing and snarling about the Air Force's awarding a $35 billion air tanker contract to an international team that includes Northrop Grumman and the European firm, EADS Airbus,...; Tags: Michael Mattis, Boeing Co., Dobbs, Airbus; Blog posts 2008-03-12
Of Trust and Trustiness: Two of our Insight bloggers, BNET1's Jon Haeber and Sales Machine's Geoffrey James have recently written about trust, each from a different angle. In "Three Reasons Why Trust Matters Online," Haeber noted that people are more and more skeptical online than they've ever been, that search engines...; Tags: Sales strategy, Investment, Blogging, Michael Mattis; Blog posts 2008-03-04
Yahoo's Brain Drain Continues: At Yahoo, it's another day, another re-org. Tim Cadogan, Yahoo's S.V.P. of Global Advertising Marketplaces, has resigned, the latest hemorrhage in the ongoing brain drain from the progenitor of search advertising. The smart, affable Brit had successfully spearheaded the company's "Panama" effort, which wholly...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, SEARCH, Corporate law, Michael Mattis, Tim Cadogan, Right Media Inc., Yahoo! Inc.; Blog posts 2008-02-29
The Economics of Assimilation: Americans seem increasingly worried about immigration. A 2006 Pew Research Center poll suggested that 44 percent of Americans believe that immigrants today are unwilling to assimilate – you know, learn English and pretend to like baseball more than soccer. That fear – or rather the reverse of...; Tags: Sales force management, Benefits, Michael Mattis, immigrant, incentive; Blog posts 2008-02-26
How to Choose Wine at a Business Luncheon: According to at least one survey, some 75 percent of wine drinkers would be nervous about choosing wine for a big occasion such as an important business luncheon. The key, says Sommelier Eugenio Jardim of Jardiniere, one of San Francisco's top restaurants, is not the meal's main dish protein ---...; Tags: Michael Mattis, wine; Blog posts 2008-02-25