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Lesson #1: Succeed Through Innovation Not Exploitation
American Apparel is about much more than clothes or at least Charney hopes so. In creating the company of his dreams, Charney wanted to make sure that it stood for something, that it was selling a message along with its products. That message is that a company does not have to be exploitive in order to turn a profit.

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Born Hustler: American Apparel’s Dov Charney Is Born
“America doesn’t need another faceless, institutional apparel company,” says American Apparel founder Dov Charney. “They need an apparel company that gets it and does it right.”

Lesson #5: Make Efficiency Your Secret Weapon
When Charney filed for bankruptcy it was because American Apparel was suffering from a lack of one thing: efficiency. His staff were all in their 20s, a wildly creative bunch when it came to graphics and design, but few knew the ins and outs of running a business. And so Charney brought on Marty Bailey, an industry expert, who helped make efficiency American Apparel’s secret weapon against its competitors.

Living The American Dream: How Dov Charney Fashioned His Own Success
“Give me the chance of going to Harvard or being there when Google started and I want to be there making $3 an hour sweeping their floors. Or Apple when Steve Jobs started it,” says Charney. “Maybe I'm delusional but that's what I think American Apparel is.” For Charney, the success of American Apparel has just begun. But how did he get to where he is today? How did a Jewish Canadian college dropout become the CEO of one of the most revered and fastest-growing companies in America?

Michigan Workers’ Compensation Costs Have Risen Drastically Due To Explosive Growth In Health Care Costs
The number of claims filed are not primarily responsible for rising workers’ comp costs because many workers remain uninformed about their rights to benefits for workplace injury or occupational diseases. The fact is that almost all employers know far more about workers’ comp law than does the average employee. Although many employers are honest and well-intended, there are far, far too many unethical employers who will cheat their workers out of entitled benefits.

How to be An Effective Leader in a Virtual Team
One of the major problems companies are facing is how to manage their workers. Most of them have this wrong belief that remote workers and workers at home are not as productive as an in house staffer.

Insightpreneurs and Differencemakers - leaders of our new world
For the longest time there were landowners and farm workers. For a couple of hundred years they were largely replaced by industrialists and factory workers. For less than a hundred years information experts and knowledge workers have led us. Their rule is over now because today we live in an age, largely due to the internet, where information is abundant and mostly cheap or free, yet time consuming and often energy sapping to access.
Training the Trainer
Education training is a billion dollar business, as many companies find themselves spending lots of their capital on furthering the educational value of their workers. Because of the lucrative nature of this business, many companies are now training workers from within to become trainers. Training the trainer has become an exciting field for workers who wish to boost their profile and their wages.
The Advantages of Hiring Older Employees
Managers usually shun away from the idea of hiring aging workers due to health and productivity issues. But here are some real advantages that may be brought to your company by older workers.

Sailors, Maritime Workers Protected By Special Laws For On-the-Job Injuries
Sailors and maritime workers who are injured on the job do have remedies to seek to get recovery for damages and expenses incurred. But there’s a totally different set of laws to protect maritime workers than for workers injured on the land.

Addressing the Needs of Seasonal Employees
Tis the season…for more workers! In many places, especially retail locations, the fall season signifies a flurry of seasonal, temporary workers to help make the holiday rush activity function smoothly. How can workers become quickly acclimated to the organization’s culture, in order to yield the desired levels of productivity and efficiency? Furthermore, the season itself carries stress. How can an organization and all its employees survive the pressure? In this issue of Astronology, we take a look at these challenges.
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