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I admit that I've received some strange things from CVBs, hotel chains, and other industry suppliers, but live snakes, rubber-scented candles, and umbrellas with holes in them? Not yet, thankfully! But according to Promo magazine, these are among...
I always thought that being successful could make you happy, but now it appears, according to a study from the American Psychological Association, it's really the other way around...
On Fast Company Now, Heath Row talks about a Wall Street Journal article (subscription req'd) on peer-recognition programs that are now making a comeback. Three mentioned in the article...
This is a powerful story about how Michael O. Smith, who until this month ran the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, kept things running during hurricane Katrina: Michael O. Smith, GM of the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, Stood Tall in the Chaos All Around...
Who would have thought it? According to a press release, six major conventions and tradeshows—The American Baseball Coaches Association, the Mid-American Horticultural Trade Show, the International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Expo...
After analyzing the Mona Lisa with "emotion recognition" software developed with researchers at the University of Illinois, the experimenters "concluded that the subject was 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry, New Scientist magazine...