Consumers Beware – The Profits Are In The Fine Print

"Fees From Riskiest Card Holders Fuel Profits - Late Payers and Big Borrowers Are Becoming Cash Cows as Rates Balloon" ... the headlines read in a recent article featured on America Online from the Wall Street Journal's Mitchell Pacelle. The article outlined how banks are squeezing more revenue from consumers and more often from the ones who can least afford it.

Praise–A Powerful Tool for Enhancing Performance

Everyone wants to feel important. That is the highest need we all have. Making people feel important is an essential part of managing people yet sometimes as leaders, we forget this powerful tool we have at our disposal. How effective is your management style when it comes to handing out praise to those you manage? Look through this list and see how many ideas you…

Brazilians Outnumber Americans in Orkut

One might think that the top users in Orkut would be Americans. Given that this is a Google sponsored social-networking site, this seems logical. But the truth is that thousands of Brazilians have become loyal devotees of Google's popular new service.