If you work in a business setting, you’ve probably heard, or even used, at least one of the many cliche business terms that float around most offices. From bosses strategizing on how to get the “biggest bang for their buck” to a coworker sending you a slightly passive-aggressive email that starts with “Just a friendly …
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His cockiness was gone. Minutes before he was sentenced to prison, the man known as the “Pharma Bro” and the “most-hated CEO in America” broke down in tears, to the point that the judge asked a clerk to hand him a box of tissues. Barring an appellate miracle, Martin Shkreli, just a few days shy of …
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Public distaste for companies can run a little behind actuality. By the time surveys are taken and opinions are expressed, the distasteful companies are already doing something about their poor image. Still, when 24/7 Wall Street put …
A Problem, There Is… Video game company EA is in the final stages of releasing a long-anticipated game, Star Wars Battlefront II. Earlier this week, one player was surprised to discover that it would take him a total of 40 hours of gameplay to unlock just one of the main characters (such as arch-villain Darth …
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Chart of the Day: New research on web users’ perception of ad types and formats The Nielsen Norman Group has been helping make the web a better place through their research and advice on usability and customer experience for a long time. In fact, it’s since 1998, about as long as I’ve been involved in …
