More than 95 percent of young farmers and ranchers surveyed at the Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers and Ranchers annual meeting held in Des Moines, Iowa, last month said that they see a future for their children in farming and ranching, the Prairie Star reports. Last year 89 percent saw a future for their farms.

The Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration (SBA), the “small business watchdog” of the government, saved small businesses more than $6.6 billion during fiscal year 2005, according to a statement released last week.

The Invisible Employee is a new book offering managers proven techniques for revitalizing their workforce and improving the performance of underperforming staff members.

Can someone watching you tell where you are going just by the direction you take when leaving home or the office? Do you feel stuck in a daily grind? Does your daily travel seem to be taking longer and longer?

Tip jars are turning up everywhere in America these days. Don’t feel guilty if you ignore the ones at fast food establishments, even coffee shops, if they don’t bring food or beverages to the table. Tip jars are often placed so conspicuously that employees at self-serve businesses, from gas stations, convenience stores, hot dog carts, coffee houses and fast food restaurants, are being rewarded for service they are not providing. In the meantime, people who do provide service are often overlooked, especially when we travel around the country.Tips are not just rewards for good service.

The American Automobile Association’s (AAA’s) Annual Vacation Costs survey found that the overall cost of taking a vacation this year has increased 5.4 percent from the previous year.

The concept of lean accounting has been grabbing considerable attention lately.

With internal auditors taking a more prominent role in U.S. companies, the popularity of the field is surging."Our membership has more than doubled in the last 10 years," said Trish Harris, director of communications for The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA).

Sometimes you just know things. But did you know that at those times your unconscious is really processing hundreds, thousands, even millions of pieces of information without your being aware of it? Blink the new book by Malcolm Gladwell, explores how we make intuitive decisions and how anyone can hone the skill into valuable tool for business and life.Blink is in many ways a book about psychology. As with most psychology books, the more you read the more symptoms described in the book you find in yourself.