Gen Z Spends 5+ Work Hours Each Week On Social Media Videos
A report by visual collaboration company CloudApp found that Gen Z employees spend 5+ work hours each week watching YouTube, TikTok, and other social-related video content.
Business
4 Key Ingredients To Family Business Success
Balancing work lives with personal lives can be difficult for those who work in family businesses. It’s easy to allow the personal to seep into the business and to allow business issues to creep into what should be private time. Father and son team, Ken and Alex Sutherland, explain how they’ve made it work as they manage an independent investment advisory firm together.
A Solution to the Global Financial Crisis
Nations around the world are reeling from one financial crisis after another. Iceland, one of the world’s richest nations, has gone bankrupt, unable to pay back its external debt. Other European countries are not far…
The Cost of Humor – How many customers can you afford to alienate?
A job web site runs a series of radio commercials featuring a befuddled boss agonizing over how to advertise a job opening. In each commercial, a couple of his employees explain how XYZ Job Site…
Cut Corners On Safety At Your Financial Peril
In some jobs and in some industries, it doesn’t really matter what you do, you’re not likely to hurt anyone. An artist who creates bad paintings simply doesn’t sell those paintings. No matter how bad…
Tim Hortons – How much is goodwill and customer loyalty worth?
Tim Hortons, with more than 2,750 outlets across Canada, is Canada’s largest and most popular coffee and donut shop. Since its inception in 1964 it has become a Canadian institution, as much a part of…
Lifelock – Don’t Make Promises You Can’t Keep
The identity-theft prevention company Lifelock is so confident its system works, it offers a $1 million guarantee to its customers. The CEO of Lifelock backs up his claim by publishing his own US Social Security…
Manners In Text – Observing proper business etiquette in your email
You probably receive dozens of email messages every day. Most of them are likely spam. And you may send as many as you receive. Could the email you send also be regarded as spam, or…
Don’t Say It If You Don’t Mean It
From Random Notions’ Business At The Speed Of Stupid file. During the 2007 Juno Awards in Saskatoon, a CTV producer approached a couple in their seats, Steve Ryde and Vanessa Thomas, and asked if they’d…
No Such Thing As Bad Publicity?
From Random Notions’ Business At The Speed Of Stupid file. They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity. In a way, that may be true. Take the new movie, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon…
Ford Sees Red
From Random Notion’s Business At The Speed Of Stupid. You don’t last 103 years by being stupid. But you don’t lose $12.7 billion by being smart. Ford Motor Co. has done both. Ford is hemorrhaging…