Leslie Perlow: How to Have Your Downtime — Without Missing a Beat

Leslie Perlow isn't your typical workplace consultant. A Harvard Business School professor, she set out several years ago to cure the seemingly incurable: hard-charging management consultants...
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How to Advance Your Career in a Workplace That Has No Boss

The modern workplace is all about being "flat" -- that is, eliminating the hierarchies, job titles, and traditional corner offices more associated with the Industrial Age than the Digital...
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How to Hire in Hyper-Growth

Managing a successful company through periods of dramatic growth is a challenge most CEOs would love to have. But when it comes to hiring, it's much easier said than done -- and can often make or break...
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Why Rotating Employees Through Your Company Is a Win-Win

The days of employees spending decades at a company -- and receiving a gold watch in gratitude -- are long gone. Workers today are constantly on the move, a fact of life that will only accelerate...
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Mayoral Candidate Eric Garcetti Visits Cornerstone to Highlight the Role of “Silicon Beach” in L.A.’s Bright Future

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti paid us a visit today, signaling the prominence of Cornerstone in the emerging tech community in L.A.  Usually playing second fiddle to northern California’s...
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How to Interview a Job Prospect – Over Skype

Marissa Mayer's get-your-butt-in-the-office-if-you-want-to-work-for-me attitude aside, the number of remote workers in the United States is climbing steadily. Today's employees of...
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Quiet, Yes, But Introverts Can Be Your Best Performers

Introverts are a misunderstood bunch. They're often seen as standoffish, shy or lacking ideas, and can have trouble fitting into today's bustling and open workplaces. But just because they're...
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Has Technology Made Us More Disconnected? 3 Easy Steps to Networking the Old-Fashioned Way

Not everyone was born to schmooze. Even extroverts at times stand anxiously in a crowd, sipping a cocktail and facing a sea of unfamiliar faces. But putting yourself out there, literally, still matters...
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Social Performance Reviews: How to Get Started

Meeting with the boss behind closed doors for an annual performance run-down bottled up into an hour-long package seems outdated when you think about the direction company culture has headed in the past...
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Is Your Company Ready for Total Transparency?

More companies these days are opening their books -- and databases and other records traditionally kept confidential -- to employees in the hopes of empowering workers, holding them accountable and, more...
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