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How to Manage Former Peers After Promotion

Tue, 06/18/2013 - 08:00

A reader asks: I was recently promoted from within my team to team manager. I formed friendships with many of my coworkers prior to being promoted and would occasionally participate in game nights...

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How Introverts Can Thrive in a Collaborative World

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 08:00

If you’re someone who considers yourself an introvert, workplaces today are probably a big pain in the behind. Open concept floor plans, collaboration areas and even a coffee shop smack dab in...

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5 Decision-Making Types – Part 3

Fri, 06/14/2013 - 08:00

We all make decisions in different ways. This third installment of our three-part series on Decision Making (See here for Part 1, and here for Part 2) will help you determine the type of decision...

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Gamify Your E-mail for Better Organization

Thu, 06/13/2013 - 08:00

Imagine a world in which cleaning your e-mail inbox felt like the first day you got your hands on that new Super Mario Brothers game for your Nintendo. Okay, maybe Baydin’s E-mail Game isn’t that...

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The 5 Best Ways to Collaborate With Your Team

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 08:00

As more teams are becoming remote, it is even more essential to get the right team together to accomplish set goals. The problem that most workers have is that they aren’t trained to...

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10 Danger Signs When You’re Hiring New Employees

Tue, 06/11/2013 - 08:00

If you’ve ever hired the wrong person – or inherited someone else’s bad hire – you know the costs of hiring mistakes: huge amounts of time and energy spent addressing the problem, as well as...

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How Leaders Can Manage Their Creative Monkeys: Interview with G. Michael Maddock

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 08:00

Are you an idea monkey? According to G. Michael Maddock, author of “Free the Idea Monkey…to Focus on What Matters Most,” an idea monkey is someone who can produce lots of new thoughts, concepts or...

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5 Biases in Decision Making – Part 2

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 08:00

This post is part of a 3-Part series on the topic of Biases in Decision Making. Please click here for Part 1. The third installment will be posted next week. Research in behavioral economics and...

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Building a Team Using Myers-Briggs

Thu, 06/06/2013 - 08:00

You’ve probably heard of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator even if you haven’t taken it yourself already. According to the test’s website, the MBTI is one of the most widely-used...

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6 Tips on How to Work From Home Successfully

Wed, 06/05/2013 - 08:00

The future of work is the work itself, not where and when the work takes place. Workplace flexibility programs are already catching on and will soon become standardized as more millennials enter the...

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Weird Coworkers? Bet You Can’t Top These 10 Oddballs!

Tue, 06/04/2013 - 08:00

If you’ve been in the workforce for longer than a year or two, you’ve probably had some odd coworkers. But how do yours stack up against the winners of our weirdest coworker contest? I recently asked...

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How to Find the Time to Get More Done

Mon, 06/03/2013 - 08:00

Remember when you were a kid and summertime meant hanging out with friends, sleeping late and going on vacation? Now, summertime means you’ve got to try and figure out how to get all your work done...

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Bias in Decision-Making – Part 1

Fri, 05/31/2013 - 08:00

In a 2009 McKinsey Quarterly survey of 2,207 executives, 28 percent evaluated the quality of strategic decisions in their companies as mostly good, 60 percent said bad decisions were about as common...

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Reader Question: Do My Colleagues Think I’m Obnoxious?

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 08:00

I recently received this question from a Fast Track reader: I really like my new company and my new boss, and at his urging I have been signing up for lots of extracurricular activities like...

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5 Ways to Use Social Media to Support Your Company

Wed, 05/29/2013 - 08:00

Years ago, there was a stigma around social media. Many companies ignored it simply because they didn’t understand it. Worse yet, they feared using social media and even blocked all the...

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360 Answers: How Can I Coach an Annoying Employee?

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 08:00

Each of our workplace experts has weighed in on the following question from a reader to give you four points of view. For other editions of our 360° Answers series, please click here. Here’s the...

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How to Conduct More Effective Interviews

Fri, 05/24/2013 - 08:00

Job interviews are so incredibly common that it might be next to impossible to get a job without going on one. Everybody uses them. But are they effective? What do they tell us about the people who...

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QuickBase SDKs Now on GitHub

Fri, 05/24/2013 - 07:30

As most of you are aware, QuickBase has maintained its Software Development Kits (SDKs) at Code.Intuit.com for a few years now. These are mostly language-specific wrappers for the QuickBase HTTP...

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In-Office Workers Are Less Productive Than Telecommuters

Thu, 05/23/2013 - 08:00

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...

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10 Signs You’re in the Wrong Job

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 08:00

Many people I speak to feel stuck in their current jobs and the reason is often because it’s simply not the right fit for them. We often talk here about corporate culture and how important it...

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