Jerry McLaughlin: If you want a raise, turn off your e-mail.

Before you read this today, you read your e-mail. You’re always reading your e-mail. E-mail is Facebook for grownups: America’s current favorite distraction from work — corporate America’s No. 1 de-focuser. I have teenagers. If you have teenagers, then you too have heard someone explain why it is important to have a Facebook page open […]

How Tim Jenks completed an acquisition to grow NeoPhotonics on a global platform

Back in 2003, the telecommunications industry was going through what Timothy Jenks describes as a “downturn and compression,” as large equipment manufacturing companies — his customers — increasingly consolidated and reduced their vendor base to manage costs. The result was that many companies in the telecommunications components industry, which NeoPhotonics Corp. occupied, were being put […]