Southwest Airlines has a reputation among its customers as being super friendly and very laid back. This cheerful attitude extends to the company’s vendors, who deal directly with their local Southwest office, rather than employees at the company’s Dallas headquarters….
Evergreen Investments, the assets management division of Wachovia Bank, has offered clients sound investment strategies for seventy years. Such longevity is no accident. The company has maintained its edge by keeping up with the times, even as the times have…
An email. A Post-It note. Popping your head into a colleague’s office. The sharing of important information among coworkers is second nature because it happens so frequently with little effort or thought. Admittedly, this everyday scenario becomes more complex when…
A lot of life happens between the time a child begins teething and when they’re ready to pack up their first coffee maker and head off to college. As most parents know, the daunting question of how to pay for…
Virtually everyone has had the experience: you are traveling in a foreign country, and with the exception of a few basics, you don’t understand the language. Simple daily tasks- such as ordering dinner at a restaurant or asking directions to…
In 1853, German immigrant John Jacob Bausch set up his modest optical shop in Rochester, New York. A few years later, Bausch’s close friend Henry Lomb invested $60 to keep the business of selling spectacles going, a relatively unknown endeavor…