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President Obama is seeking to establish automatic retirement accounts for all workers under his fiscal-2010 budget proposal submitted to Congress yesterday. Under the plan, all employers that didn't offer retirement plans would be forced to enroll employees in direct-deposit individual retirement accounts unless workers chose not to participate Read More

Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan, authors of The Three Laws of Performance, discuss the two recessions: the actual external one, and the one in your mind. Managing the second may just be the key to managing the first, too. Read More

Recognize and reward a job well done and your company will ultimately reap the benefits. Read More

Jerry Kalish of Slate's BizBox divines a few rules for how to survive down times from a recent interview with a professor at Harvard Business School. Read More

Slate's BizBox examines the debate over the Employee Free Choice Act--a.k.a. card check--and questions whether this is something small businesses really should care all that much about. Read More

Larina Kase, author of The Confident Leader, is the latest guest on BizBooks, the regular author discussion series published by Slate's BizBox blog. She answers questions about confidence, Barack Obama, and, yes, procrastination (and how not to do it). Read More

Slate's BizBox talks to Dan Ford, president and CEO of a Colorado community bank, about the current lending situation, why his bank (and many other banks) didn't take TARP money, and other topics. Read More

Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan, co-authors of The Three Laws of Performance, explain how to view succeeding in business as a game, by seeing the facts themselves rather than fearful interpretations of them. Read More

Slate's BizBox looks at President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address and Gov. Bobby Jindal's response for clues as to how the two parties intend to help small business. Read More

Jerry Kalish of Slate's BizBox explains two provisions in the new stimulus package that affect employee benefits. One buttresses COBRA, which provides health insurance to recently terminated workers; the other extends transportation benefits, which can help employers and employees alike. Read More