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- You might be the problem with your product presentations
Presenters often think they can make their products more appealing by mentioning every potential positive, but research has found that this approach can make your offerings seem less valuable, writes psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson. "Highly favorable or positive things are diminished or diluted in the eye of the beholder when they are presented in the company of only moderately favorable or positive things," she explains. Harvard Business Review online
(10/23)      
- New apps to make your workday more productive
WorkFlowy, Speek and TurboScan are some of the new applications that can help boost your productivity, Rebecca Thorman writes. For example, TurboScan "turns your iPhone camera into a scanner so you can scan multi-page documents, receipts, whiteboards, and more," she writes. "Or even just digitally save that article you read while waiting at the doctor's office." U.S. News & World Report/On Careers blog
(10/25)
- Engagement is about attitude, not technology
Engaging people via social media requires only a willingness to talk authentically to people, says Human Business Works President Chris Brogan. Replying to people's messages and showing a modicum of interest in what they're saying often is enough to impress, Brogan says. "It's just a matter of paying attention to people's basic human needs," he says. Forbes
(10/25)
- Will millennials save the economy?
Research shows 1 in 3 people in their 20s moved back home with their parents during the recession, but once they move back out on their own it could jump-start the economy, Derek Thompson writes. "They'll be renters before they'll be buyers (if they become buyers at all)," he writes. But it "might just be enough to turn the stiffest headwind against U.S. growth -- our awful state of housing investment -- into a light breeze at our back." The Atlantic
(10/2012)
- How to get more value from job postings
Responding to a job posting can be daunting because you're competing with internal candidates and sometimes hundreds of outside applicants, Hannah Morgan writes. You'll be more successful if you use job postings to be a smarter job hunter by learning of the most sought-after skills and what industries seem to be hiring more, she writes. Career Sherpa
(10/23)
- Small firms experiment with unlimited vacation time policies
Unlimited vacation time is offered at about 1% of companies, most them smaller firms, according to the Society of Human Resources Management. Since the benefit was instituted at advisory-services firm LRN, workers have averaged about three weeks off a year, the same as before unlimited vacation became available, CEO Dov Seidman says. "People are a lot more honest and responsible when they're trusted," he says. The Wall Street Journal
(10/25)
- A bellyful of trivia about Halloween candy
It's almost Halloween, and many people are stocking up on seasonal candy. This collection of candy facts reveals the average number of licks it takes to eat a Tootsie Pop, the real meaning of the word "PEZ" and why bubble gum traditionally is pink. MentalFloss.com
(10/24)
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