The word "networking" can conjure up the picture of the sleazy salesperson trying to get you to buy something you don't want or need.
When I first had my consulting practice, I joined a networking group. At that time, I was often hired by government to work with non-profits, so...
Rana Florida | Posted May 24, 2012
Thursdays at the Huffington Post, Rana Florida, CEO of The Creative Class Group, will answer readers' questions about how they can optimize their lives. She will also feature conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, relationships, careers, and more. Send your questions...
Conrad Black | Posted May 24, 2012
It pains me to be a killjoy, but I cannot join the gush of enthusiasm that Facebook constitutes any reassurance about the innate and imperishable American genius for wealth creation.
Mark Zuckerberg deserves great credit, of course, for a genius idea and the tenacity and ingenuity to...
Jeffrey Rubin | Posted May 23, 2012
Four years ago, when I was still chief economist at CIBC World Markets, I forecast that global economic growth was on pace to send oil prices to $200 a barrel by 2012. In short, the argument was based on a supply-driven analysis that weighed the sources of future oil supply...
Dax Hamman | Posted May 23, 2012
Augmented reality is the principle of changing or adding to what an individual sees and experiences with something artificial. Those additions might be simple text or color-coding, but could also be a full replacement of the existing world with something brand new, and custom to you.
Today, augmented reality (AR)...
Merran Smith | Posted May 23, 2012
Canadians want their government to develop a national energy strategy that would protect the environment and help the country reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
That's the takeaway of a recent national poll, published earlier this month in the trade magazine Alberta Oil. But it's received little attention...
Diane Francis | Posted May 22, 2012
Quebec's unruly students are no different than the Greeks. Both have enjoyed free rides for years, both are being asked to pay their share of the tab and both are refusing to do so.
The backdrop to both situations and many more to come is the Great Markdown, or...
Michael Geist | Posted May 22, 2012
Canada's proposed Internet surveillance was back in the news last week after speculation grew that government intends to keep the bill in legislative limbo until it dies on the order paper. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews denied the reports, maintaining that Bill C-30 will still be sent to committee for...
Andrew Pyle | Posted May 22, 2012
It is said that the average American spends hundreds of hours per year on Facebook. Now the company has gone public, it is quite possible that investors in the stock might spend the same amount of time figuring out whether they did the right thing.
With much fanfare the...
Gemma Godfrey | Posted May 18, 2012
As the euro zone crisis intensifies and global markets reflect investor concerns, we ask ourselves, is a Greek exit from the euro on its way? Crucially, preparations have already begun to protect shareholder interest, companies are robust and policy in the U.S. and China aims to maintain the upward momentum....
Robert Reich | Posted May 18, 2012
Members of the Class of 2012,
As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you're picking up today.
You're f*cked.
Well, not exactly. But you won't have it easy.
First, you're going...
David J. Cross | Posted May 18, 2012
The Bay Area real estate market might be in a mini housing bubble that's being fueled by Facebook's IPO.
This week the social media giant is expected to open its doors to the general public. Overnight, Facebook will become a publicly traded company and a...
Tom Doctoroff | Posted May 18, 2012
The China hard landing drum is beating louder now than it was at the beginning of the year. Their call from an investment standpoint has been a lucrative one. But fundamentally and over the long haul, China's place as the world's No. 2 economic power is secure. In fact, China...
Richard Powers | Posted May 18, 2012
The resignation of Yahoo CEO, Scott Thompson, last week amid allegations that he fabricated a degree in computer science that was listed on his biography, and in SEC filings has prompted great soul searching in boardrooms across North America.
Resume due diligence seems like such a basic...
Mary Prefontaine | Posted May 17, 2012
By the age of two, children normally begin to display the fundamental behaviors of empathy by having an emotional response that corresponds with another person. Sometimes, toddlers will comfort others or show concern for them as early as age two.
So, why do adults in the workplace show little or...
Ron Ricci | Posted May 17, 2012
New technology and the reality of working in global organizations means we are replacing traditional in-person meetings with travel-free, technology-enabled, face-to-face collaboration that can occur at anytime, with anyone, anywhere in the world.
The virtual workplace has many advantages, but it also introduces new challenges. We work with people we've...
Paul Barter | Posted May 18, 2012
On the eve of the IPO, Facebook couldn't look more different from what we hoped it might someday be. The problem is that no one's happy: Customers are subjected to more and more ads, and the companies who created those ads aren't seeing much of a
John-Manuel Andriote | Posted May 17, 2012
Common sense suggests that in a time of wringing blood from turnips, every member of the U.S. Congress would leap at the chance to save the nation billions of dollars.
Yet Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the most commonsensical man on Capitol Hill, was the only member of the subcommittee on...
Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted May 17, 2012
How Government and Corporations Use the Poor as Piggy Banks
Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com.
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month’s rent. Mug a janitor and...
Sarah Lacy | Posted May 16, 2012
We knew when we launched our startup blog, PandoDaily, that the biggest story of the year would be Facebook's spring IPO. Considering that we counted many of the world's leading experts on Facebook among our staff and contributors, we couldn't think of a better topic for our first...
Anne Day | Posted May 24, 2012