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Social Media: Does It Help or Hinder Productivity?

BY Ray WilliamsMon Nov 30, 2009 at 5:53 PM

Does the use of social media in the workplace benefit organizations and educational institutions and help productivity or hamper productivity? That's a question many leaders and educators are debating in organizations, even while students and employees immerse themselves in social media for both personal and business purposes. This article will examine both sides of the question, and show how it's clearly connected to a much bigger question of organizational change.READ»

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Escaping Your Inner Mental Prison

BY Dr. Alex PattakosThu Nov 5, 2009 at 1:45 PM

"Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now," the world-renown psychiatrist and author of the classic bestseller, Man's Search for Meaning, ...READ»

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Second Life Finds its Second Life as a Tool for Virtual Workers

BY Kit EatonWed Nov 4, 2009 at 9:17 AM

Say what you like about virtual world Second Life--it just keeps spinning on. And now it's getting an official enterprise offshoot, which companies can run on their own server for virtual, corporate, uh, fun. There's even going to be ...READ»

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As the Economy Improves

BY Sharlyn LaubyTue Oct 27, 2009 at 2:28 PM

Reports indicate that employees will be leaving current employers as the economy improves. Honest conversations now can help mitigate employee losses.READ»

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The Age of Empathy

BY Ray WilliamsMon Oct 26, 2009 at 12:19 AM

Greed is out. Empathy is in. That's how Frans de Waal begins his book, The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons For A Kinder Society. De Waal is a biologist, professor of psychology and director of the Living Link Center at Emory University. In 2007, Time magazine selected him as one of the world's most influential people. The global financial crisis of 2008, together with the election of a new American President representing a vastly different political and social perspective, has produced a "seismic shift in society," argues de Waal.READ»

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Want To Stay Healthy After Retirement? Keep Working

BY Ray WilliamsSat Oct 24, 2009 at 5:51 PM

Since the Great Depression, a commonly held perspective on the good life is that we can all look forward to retirement, when we didn't have to work any more. We would be more relaxed and healthier away from the stresses of work. There's a couple of flaws in that argument. For one thing, retirement, like pensions, was an invention of the depression, intended to deal with the problem of unemployment. Prior to the depression the concept of retirement didn't exist. And for the most part, people are viewing retirement in a very different way today. AARP in the U.S., report from a survey done in 2008 that 70% of workers plan to continue working past their retirement age.Now recent research questions the assumption that not working anymore will improve your health. READ»

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“Contractor” Employee Misclassification is Costing Companies – Again

BY Nick ReddinMon Oct 19, 2009 at 2:53 PM

As a cable-television installer in Massachusetts, Fritz Elienberg drove a van and wore a shirt emblazoned with “Comcast.” He installed equipment from Comcast Corp., and customers paid the cable provider for his work.Mr. Elienberg ...READ»

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Is Management Efficiency A Myth?

BY Ray WilliamsMon Oct 19, 2009 at 12:55 AM

The current recession has produced a flood of management "experts" and many leaders of organizations whose only strategy for dealing with the downturn in the economy is cutting costs, layoffs and more efficiency based strategies. The mantra for business for much of the last century has been operational efficiency. So leaders look for ways to cut costs and make the operations lean and mean. Yet much of the rationale for and evidence supporting efficiency as a key management strategy is questionable.READ»

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Leadership Mindset May Determine Long Term Success

BY Ray WilliamsSun Oct 4, 2009 at 6:58 PM

A leader's "mindset" may determine success. Mindsets that are characterized by a commitment to growth, flexibility and adaptability continue to develop the leader's brain and develop reservoirs of untapped potential.READ»

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How Can Positive Affirmations Work?

BY Ray WilliamsSun Oct 4, 2009 at 2:18 PM

Positive affirmations can be a benefit to personal growth, if done in the right context, thus avoiding the damaging consequences of the wrong approach, as shown in recent researchREAD»

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