Must Reads

The summertime job for teens is becoming a thing of the past. Teenagers are less employed now than any other time in the past 70 years.

The conflagrations in Southeast Oregon have not yielded a big uptick in business for private firefighters and equipment operators.

The business owner or CEO is the inevitable recipient of problems, complaints, and suggestions. The tide of them can feel overwhelming. Here’s the three-stage “Listen – Redirect – Empower” formula Tom Cox teaches to CEOs (and managers) on how to handle complaints and suggestions most effectively.

Thanks to current high beef prices, regional management practices, relatively temperate weather and potatoes, Oregon’s beef producers stand to gain from the national drought.

Today’s ruling by the Supreme Court that left standing the basic provisions of the Obama Administration’s health care overhaul also put the spotlight on Gov. John Kitzhaber and Oregon’s own health care reform efforts.

Should you be a ‘big picture’ leader or should you ‘sweat the small stuff’?  The best leaders do both — the real trick is to swap between the two regularly, without allowing yourself to become fooled.

Two new insurance plans indicate demand for products that provide liability, theft and accident coverage for cyclists.

By never caring how they look, the best executives end up looking great — looking like someone who gets results.  (Women are much better than men in this area.)

High gas prices have been in the news constantly this spring. For weeks, as Oregon has experienced soaring gas prices, the blogosphere has been awash in claims that refineries are fixing prices. Turns out, the paranoid among us could be right.

Facebook IPO raises questions about the value created by internet technologies and spotlights a new generation of value added mobile apps.