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Bosses may be an overbearing breed, but more often than not, you've got to admire their business chops. Wouldn't you love to have that same sense of competence and confidence, that ability to assess tough problems and reach smart solutions on the fly? Guess what? So would they. If you have ever suspected that your boss isn't actually good enough at what he or she does to deserve the job in the first place, a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests that you might be right...
...problems at sufficient scale and speed." Regardless, he says, the green momentum is still growing, not so much because businesses such as solar power or recycling have become financial titans (they haven't), but because green values - efficiency, reducing waste, managing carbon - have increasingly become standard practice for any smart business. "It's really becoming business as usual," says Makower. "These are practices that don't go away during a recession." (Listen to Makower talk about the state of green business on this week's Greencast...
...world to believe Geithner would have more to say, declaring at his press conference last night that the Treasury Secretary would "be announcing some very clear and specific plans." And viewed through a longer-term lens, Geithner's don't-promise-much approach might turn out to be awfully smart. If one leaves aside the actual details of his not-all-that-detailed proposal, one of the most important jobs of a Treasury Secretary in troubled times like these is to instill confidence. Geithner's predecessor, Hank Paulson, was a believer in doing so by means of bold statements. That...
Harvard should instead take advantage of this bearish market to hire even more professors. This would be a smart investment, as the competition for sought-after talent is particularly diminished this season...
...relations agent less than a week after the octuplets' birth. Joann Killeen, president of the Killeen Furtney Group, was hired to field book, movie and TV offers for her client. During an interview on Larry King Live on Feb. 3, Killeen portrayed Suleman as a "wonderful woman." "She's smart, she's bright, she's articulate, she's well educated. She is just a delight. And I can't wait for the media to get to meet her," Killeen said. "She's a very balanced woman. She's got perspective. She really wants to tell her story...