Incentives can be broken down as simply as the carrot or the stick and often a well-balanced combination of both.

Here we are again. Well, at least some of us. After weeks of media hype and millions of campaign dollars, it might be time to start questioning the Iowa caucus results.

Human resource departments across the country had a perfect opportunity to test their own ability to communicate with their work forces this week when the House decided to wait until the last minute to renew the payroll tax cut (for a whopping two months).

We need to go beyond benefits sellinginto benefits surviving

Warren Benoit was one of the first brokers featured on the cover of Benefits Selling and the first keynote speaker at the inaugural Benefits Selling Expo but his journey since then has been anything but boring.

I love Charles Dickens. I remember reading "Great Expectations" in the sixth grade with an enthusiasm I usually saved for the stack of comic books that lined the bottom of my closet.

As Newt Gingrichs improbable rise to the top of the GOP field continues it might be a good time to look back at how far hes come when it comes to health care reform.

Say what you want about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and we all have but the still-unraveling legislation is already changing behaviors across the board.