03/03/2011
Billions of e-mail messages are sent each day, but one study estimates that the average employee wastes more than 40 minutes a day on worthless e-mail. That doesn’t even include the jokes your friends and family forward and the unnecessary messages your colleagues copy to everyone in the office. Here’s how you can trim the time you spend on e-mail.
02/25/2011
Before the Chicago Bears played the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship game, car salesman John Stone wore a Packers necktie to work at Chicago’s Webb Chevrolet. General Manager Jerry Roberts asked Stone to remove the tie. He refused and was fired. When Roberts learned of Stone’s reason for wearing the tie, he offered him his job back. By then Stone had already packed up to move to rival Chevrolet of Homewood.