Google, we love you. You make research so easy, so slick—that is, until a more popular search result comes before the thing you were actually looking for. My predicament today was a funnier one that I felt worth sharing.
While searching for blog ideas this morning I typed the (mis-spelled) word “tryptophyan” into Google. What Google [...]

It’s true, Benjamin Franklin really wanted the turkey to be our national bird. This is just one of the many interesting facts about turkeys and Thanksgiving available to us. Here are a few more:

Americans feast on 535 million pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 45 million [...]

Although I am a CPA by training and with ten years of experience in public accounting I am more comfortable talking audits and taxes than I am talking employee benefits and job interviews, my position at Primum allows me to dabble in human resources too.  As such, I have attended two seminars on the topic [...]

Google finally unveiled the project they’ve been developing with Time Inc. for almost two years. This past Wednesday, the new online, searchable portal site featuring more than 10 million photographs and etchings from LIFE magazine’s archive went live.
You’ll find images, including many never-before-seen ones, from the 1750s to today. It’s a virtual treasure chest, especially [...]

As if not enough people in this country are against a taxpayer-funded bailout of the Big 3 Automakers, the CEOs from GM, Ford and Chrysler flew in private luxury jets to plead in front of Congress for help. Luxury jets? Really guys? You didn’t see this backlash coming? Especially at an estimated cost of $20k?
The [...]

If you have read the Primum. Get a Lot. blog, you have heard us sing the praises of social networking time and time again.  But is the message getting through?  A recent survey of HR execs by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a global outplacement and business coaching consultant, shows that it might not be.
When asked “Does [...]

You can read the research, or you can just remember these three simple things:
1. Burning Embers
2. Your Spouse
3. Harvard Professor
(See explanation below)
Several research studies, including the following, have shown that it’s smart to keep marketing during a recession. For example:
A. According to a McGraw Hill study, B2B companies that maintained or increased their marketing during [...]

Now that the election is over I thought it would be a perfect time to reflect on one part of Obama’s successful campaign.
The Obama logo was created early in 2007, through a collaboration between Chicago firms Sender LLC and MO/DE. Chief Obama strategist David Axelrod gave the agencies the direction: design a logo that would [...]

I wear a pair of brown cowboy boots with blue stars on them to work occasionally. If you saw me wearing them you probably wouldn’t know that they are cowboy boots because they look like your typical shoe. My coworkers had no idea I was wearing cowboy boots, until the day I showed [...]

I couldn’t think of a good topic to write on this week, so I found ways to prevent writer’s block. Immediately I found this list on creativecreativity.com, which shows 10 ways to prevent writer’s, or in our case, blogger’s block. Here is a brief rundown of the list, and for the complete list, click here:
1. Sleep
2. [...]