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Ridgewood NJ, Corporate culture in America may be on the brink of a seismic shift, according to billionaire investor and Donald Trump adviser Marc Andreessen. Speaking on the Moment of Zen podcast with Erik Torenberg, Andreessen shared his belief that the dominance of “extreme wokeness” in corporate America, academia, and media is rapidly waning.
Continue reading Marc Andreessen Predicts the End of Corporate Wokeness: A Radical Shift in Culture
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“Cloudstorming,” “Idea Harvesting,” “Strategy Quilting,” and “Hyper-Tasking” are just some of the managerial buzzwords that have gained traction in the corporate sphere in recent years. However, their effectiveness, particularly in motivating employees, is debatable. A manager might use them with the best intentions, but they can often have the opposite effect, often hindering rather than helping, revealing a clear disconnect between managerial speak and employee motivation.
Gender equality in the workplace has been an ongoing struggle for many years. Despite advances in legislation, gender discrimination is still a pervasive issue that affects both men and women. Women often face more challenges than their male counterparts, such as unequal pay and lack of representation in leadership positions.
Continue reading Workplace Discrimination: What Does Gender Equality Look Like Today?
You might be surprised by the amount of exploitation that occurs in your own backyard. Unfortunately, the “Made in America” tag isn’t enough to guarantee that no workers were exploited. United States companies have long engaged in practices to exploit workers both overseas and locally.
By Michael Walsh
May 22, 2016 | 2:38pm
“Follow the money.” That telling phrase, which has come to summarize the Watergate scandal, has been a part of the lexicon since 1976. It’s shorthand for political corruption: At what point do “contributions” become bribes, “constituent services” turn into quid pro quos and “charities” become slush funds?
Ronald Reagan was severely criticized in 1989 when, after he left office, he was paid $2 million for a couple of speeches in Japan. “The founding fathers would have been stunned that an occupant of the highest office in this land turned it into bucks,” sniffed a Columbia professor.
So what would Washington and Jefferson make of Hillary Rodham Clinton? Mandatory financial disclosures released this month show that, in just the two years from April 2013 to March 2015, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state collected $21,667,000 in “speaking fees,” not to mention the cool $5 mil she corralled as an advance for her 2014 flop book, “Hard Choices.”
Throw in the additional $26,630,000 her ex-president husband hoovered up in personal-appearance “honoraria,” and the nation can breathe a collective sigh of relief that the former first couple — who, according to Hillary, were “dead broke” when they left the White House in 2001 with some of the furniture in tow — can finally make ends meet.
No wonder Donald Trump calls her “crooked Hillary.
https://nypost.com/2016/05/22/how-corporate-america-bought-hillary-clinton-for-21m/
