The 10 Happiest States in America

Take a guess at which state ranks “happiest” overall? The nationwide survey is based on daily interviews with U.S. adults from January to December 2011. The Index is an average of six categories: life evaluation, emotional health, work environment, healthy behaviors, and physical health.

8 Qualities of Remarkable Employees

Forget good to great. Here’s what makes a great employee remarkable.

Great employees are reliable, dependable, proactive, diligent, great leaders and great followers… they possess a wide range of easily-defined—but hard to find—qualities.

How to Strengthen Risk Management, Candidly Speaking

Organizational cultures that lack candor, Ferrazzi Greenlight CEO Keith Farrazzi tells us, endure longer cycle times, slow decision-making, unnecessarily iterative discussions and below-average financial performance. Even worse, a lack of candor can dumb down a company’s risk intelligence and, in some cases, lead to catastrophe. In the January-February Harvard Business Review, Ferrazzi writes: “My team interviewed executives at six top banks to gauge their teams’ level of candor. We found that the teams that scored the lowest on candor saw the poorest [...]

The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies- 41: Kickstarter

“Crap-I need to raise $5,000 really fast.” That’s not something one often hears from a woman immersed in the world of debutantes. But Maria White wasn’t making a documentary about typical southern belles. White’s film, The Debutante Hunters, follows a wild-hog-huntin’ gang of high-society ladies.

The 10 Most Miserable States In America

High unemployment, poor access to basic necessities such as food, shelter and medicine, and rising obesity rates continue to plague many of America’s Southern states, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.

The Shocking Statistic About Psychopaths On Wall Street

The March/April issue of the CFA Magazine has a fascinating article titled “The Financial Psychopath Next Door.”
A shocking statistic jumped out at us.

The LTRO Bubble Has Popped, And Europe Is About To Find Itself In A World Of Trouble

The European Central Bank’s second and final 3-year, long-term refinancing operation has come and gone and while analysts are finalizing their bets on the take-up, they generally agree on one thing: The optimism is over.

The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies- 42: SoundCloud

Text has Twitter. Video gets YouTube. But a social network for sound that isn’t just music?