Fiction writers are taught to avoid some words and phrases whenever possible.  Stories shouldn’t have lots of events happen “suddenly,” for example, and cliches like “dark and stormy night” are out of the question.  But there are even more terms that businesspeople should shun, and we’ve highlighted some of them below. Megan Jones, a director [...]

Google and Apple are perhaps the media’s two favorite tech corporations.  Google puts out what seems like a dozen blog posts per day, with the occasional press release to boot.  Apple, on the other hand, doesn’t share much info until high-ranking officials actually announce something on a stage, and this secrecy seems to have worked [...]

At the moment, Google’s got a market cap of $131.4 billion, and the search giant is a household name in many different countries.  Managers might do well to emulate its execs’ style, then, and a recent article on cofounder Sergey Brin should help you do exactly that.