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The old paradigm in employment benefits, circa 1999: What
will it take to get you to work for us? A signing bonus? Stock options so you
can retire at...
Dear Howard,
You’ve got a problem. You recognize it, I know. Since you’ve
retaken the reins, you’ve taken a few modest steps toward making Starbucks...
I should be a technology skeptic. The first time I met my
father-in-law, a former engineer in the Apollo space program, he told me that
satellites...
All companies talk about the value of talent, but one local business, the Seattle Seahawks, clearly lives and dies by the people that it hires to...
“I don’t care, Gary. I mean, I have to tell you, I just
don’t care about the bonus.”
I was listening to Ron, a veteran employee who was telling
me...
OK, team. Decision time. I know I
got elected mayor of Seattle on a promise of not wanting to rock the boat on
the whole tunnel-to-replace-the-...
When Howard Behar, the former president of Starbucks, was a
boy growing up in Seattle, his father, a Bulgarian immigrant, owned a neighborhood...
Like many American cities, Seattle was built for the purpose
of making money.
Oh sure, we may prattle on about our gorgeous setting and
being in...




