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The Wall Street Journal:
Young adults lucky enough to have a family business waiting for them may feel tempted — or pressured — to join it right out of college. But that’s often not the best move, family-business experts say.
John Davis, faculty chair of Harvard Business School’s family-business program, suggests individuals delay the decision to enter […]
CNBC:
How Do I Know if I’m a Workaholic?
1. Do you get more excited about your work than about family or anything else?
2. Are there times when you can charge through your work and other times when you can’t?
3. Do you take work with you to bed? On weekends? On vacation?
4. Is […]
The New York Times:
Laura Udall noticed that her young daughter suffered back pain from lugging her books back and forth to school. Udall decided to develop and market a backpack light enough for children to wear safely.
She founded her own company in 2003 and hired an industrial design firm. But after growing frustrated with a […]
RP News Wires:
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 2006:
Employed persons worked 7.6 hours on average on the days that they worked. They worked longer on weekdays than on weekend days – 8.0 vs. 5.4 hours.
On the days that they worked, employed men worked about an hour more than employed […]
The Wall Street Journal:
A recent survey commissioned by Staples, the office-supply giant, indicates that 51% of small-business professionals dream about work. Of those, 70% say that when they wake up, they turn their work dreams into action.
Dreams can come true. But if they stumble onto the subject of work, you can only hope in most […]
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