This year's most popular stories on LinkedIn reflect a common theme: self-improvement. Professionals gobbled up advice on how to be more efficient, more productive, and, yes, even more “remarkable” in the eyes of their bosses. The self-help craze reflects, on some level, the realities of the economy. With the unemployment rate at 7.7%, and the economic recovery...
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LinkedIn’s thought leaders have published more than 1,800 posts in less than three months, on topics ranging from the future of college to the perils of reclining your airline seat. As the year ends, we wanted to know: What posts were the most popular among our 187 million members? After sifting through the data, one thing quickly became clear: Professionals...
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Newark mayor Cory Booker was running out of food. It was the fourth day of his week-long challenge to live on the equivalent of food stamps, and his supplies were thinning. After eating an apple for breakfast, and canned chickpeas for lunch, Booker needed to make some choices. “I’m realizing more and more that my current daily food intake cannot continue at the...
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It’s a frustrating, dreaded December tradition: the annual performance review. The end-of-year right of passage at many companies...
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The TSA may be one of the most-hated federal agencies in the U.S. So can travelers do anything to change it? Author and consumer...
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It’s the question on the lips of every political commentator in the country: How should President Obama spend his next four years in...
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