Saturday, April 13, 2013

Being nice...what a concept!

This book captures the the essence of this blog.  Thanks to John Budriss for posting the story on LinkedIn.




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Cut & paste link below to read the story.



http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-04/give-and-take-the-business-case-for-being-nice




Monday, April 1, 2013

All you need is love...and some money!

Signed Beatles album cover sold for $290K



Click on the link below to read story.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/04/01/beatles-album-sgt-pepper-lonely-hearts-club-band-sold-at-auction-for-290500/2042459/

Super Buy= Bye Bye necklaces...

I like that the clerk offered to ship it to one customer's house.  Seems like he/she is more honorable than the folks at corporate who pulled the order instead of honoring the price.




Click on link below to read story.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/macys-necklace-mistake-1500-47-170235677.html

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Interesting mix of jobs


Common theme to happiness seems to be reward and recognition.  Heck, I could have pegged that in kindergarden when you saw the expression on kids' faces when they got a star on their forehead.  We are simple creatures, after all.


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Click on the link below for the whole story.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2013/03/22/the-happiest-and-unhappiest-jobs-in-america/

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Is Silicon Valley Home to Sugar Daddies?

Maybe sugardaddie.com should pay the guy who owns the sugardaddy.com domain name $11 million.  That way, they could spell their name correctly.



Click on link below to read the whole story.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100512103