In honor of Memorial day, and as a way to say thank you for the support I have received from this group, our new book Dissecting Business will be available as a FREE Kindle download on May 28th, 2012. Thanks to you all and I hope you have a wonderful Memorial weekend.

A number of bills are making their way through the legislative process. I expect the last legislative day to be extreemely long. Some of the more controversial bills (which have already passed one house) include HB38 (Illegal Immigration), HB46 (Gun Control), HB159 (Economic Development), and HB504 (Group Purchasing) I will provide one final update after the last legislative day to let everyone

The federal Davis-Bacon Act at 29 C.F.R. S. 5(a)(1)-(10) requires contractors and subcontractors performing work on federally funded public construction contracts to pay all laborers and mechanics employed the wage rates determined by the Secretary of Labor to be the prevailing rate for corresponding claims of laborers and mechanics working on similar projects in the area. This bill would prohibit

A friend of mine used to tell her kids, "I don't care how well you do in school, just so long as you're popular." She was joking, of course, but this joke perfectly highlights the problem with popularity: It's not about being smart

Are you feeling exhausted these days? Have you considered resigning from the company you founded? Welcome to the “Vacuum Club,” where employees suck the life out of their companies. The end result can be devastating for...

This bill would prohibit an awarding authority from contractually increasing the time for payment for completed work beyond 30 days and would provide for interest of one percent per month to be added on any dollar amount approved and unpaid for each month until final payment is made. http://realbusinesssolutioncenter.com/business-news

Pinterest now beats YouTube, Reddit, Google+, LinkedIn and MySpace for percentage of total referral traffic in January.

One of the tenets of Content Rules , a brand-new book published by Wiley this month about creating content as a cornerstone of...

Beginning on Jan. 1, 2012, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes (also vans, pickups or panel trucks) will be: • 55.5 cents per mile for business miles driven • 23 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes • 14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable organizations The rate for business miles driven is unchanged

To get yourself and your team off to a good start for the new year, focus on progress. Our research discovered that fostering progress in meaningful work is the most important way to keep people highly engaged at work — even if...

Big companies are notoriously bad at keeping their best people. Here's why Dilbert lives in most big companies.

To all my readers out there, sorry to bring down the mood on this one, but I believe this post you are about to read will be a life changing article in the way that you see your life and how you are living it at the moment....

With unemployment continuing to hover at 9 percent — and some estimates placing it as high as 16 percent when the under-employed and those who have given up looking for a job are counted — franchising can provide the tools for...

In my daily life of working with clients to achieve the most for their business via marketing, public relations and branding, I come across tips, tricks and useful information that I desire to share with professionals and...

Brain World is a new magazine dedicated to the human brain. We believe that understanding the human brain is the next great scientific frontier, and advancements that reveal the brain’s relationship to happiness, behavior and...

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