Business owners have many reasons to create new policies and procedures. A business should have both an employee handbook and operations handbook written and acknowledged by all employees. These books ...

Businesses institute dress codes for a number of reasons, including enhanced professionalism and to minimize distractions. The office memo introducing a new or different dress code should be clear ...

There are various types of business communications you might need to send throughout your career, one of which is a business memo. As with any professional communication, you need to know how to write ...

Talk show host Steve Harvey is not sorry for his atrociously unprofessional and whiney email to his staff, imploring them to leave him alone in hallways and the dressing room of his show. While any ...

In the early ’90s (coincidentally, as you’ll see in a moment), the Fortune 500 company I worked for decided travel expenses were out of control. But instead of distributing a memo establishing ...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones has some surprising advice for people who want to succeed in business: Take a journalism class. In a video interview this week, Jones told Bloomberg ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. I just went on Amazon to buy a book I wanted. Amazon told me that, even though I’m a Prime ...