Ever since Marissa Mayer made her announcement that there would be no more telecommuting at Yahoo!, some people have said that Yahoo! will be loads more productive because employees will no longer be able to skirt their responsibilities and waste …
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Not too long ago, I wrote a post Five Steps to Leading Effective Meetings, which is a good starting point when you are preparing to lead a meeting. But the reality is, you can prepare all you want, but many …
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A reader asks: My boss’s boss is the director of my department. I usually have to attend one or two meetings per week that include her. In my nearly five years in this department, she’s never been on time to a …
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Do you look forward to meetings as something that helps you do your job? Do you usually accomplish the objectives you set out to achieve during the meeting? If not, perhaps there is a better way to approach meetings. Different …
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Picture this: your manager has called a team meeting to discuss an issue that is critical to the future of the group. You walk into the conference room with hesitation. You know by talking to other people that your opinion …
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Whenever you hear something juicy about a colleague, whether it is related to work or not, you have the immediate impulse to share it across the hall. Why? Frank T. McAndrew is a professor at Knox College in Illinois who …
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If you’ve worked in the professional world for longer than a year or two, the magic of business travel wears off. You find that your trips away from the office involve working more hours, not less. You return, exhausted, with …
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