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Poll: Why the Boss Sucks, By Employees

BY Austin Carr
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According to a new survey, managers consider themselves smarter, a better coach, and more visionary than many of their underlings believe.READ»

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Most Wanted Bosses: Mark Zuckerberg Ranks Low, Oprah High

BY Austin Carr
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A new poll suggests Mark Zuckerberg, Simon Cowell, and Tony Hayward are far from ideal bosses.READ»

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Permit No Internal Distractions!

BY Paul Glover
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Last week I spent three days with two Green Industry Company owners and their Management Team putting together the company's Action Plan for Organizational Growth over the next twelve months. As a part of the Growth Action Plan ...READ»

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Work Smart 2: Stay Connected While Telecommuting

BY Gina Trapani
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Working remotely is so liberating--you get to do what you do best, in a location of your choice, without your co-workers or boss always looking over your shoulder. But telecommuting also requires a lot more effort when it comes to maintaining relationships and connections with people back at the office. READ»

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Hey Millenniums! Time to Wake Up and Go to Work!

BY Paul Glover
Relevancy Score: 55

I just saw an advertisement for a seminar about how to manage Millennials in the workplace and I realized I've finally grown tired of hearing how the Millennials (aka "Generation Y")--those 75 million persons born between 1977 and 1998--are going to transform the workplace!READ»

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Three Steps to Stop the Game of "When" at Work

BY Cali Williams Yost
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When I'm helping a group of employees optimize their work+life fitness someone will always say, "Yeah, my work is done for the day and I want to leave the office, but I don't want to be the first one to get up and I don't want to leave before my boss." In other words, they are waiting for someone else to say, "When!"READ»

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Bad Is Stronger Than Good: Why Good Bosses Eliminate the Negative First

BY Robert I. Sutton, PhD
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Of all the tunes in the Johnny Mercer songbook, the most generally beloved must be "Accentuate the Positive"--whether your favorite cover is Bing Crosby's, Willie Nelson's, or someone else's. Chances are that you yourself could ...READ»

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Being a Good Boss Is Pretty Damn Hard

BY Robert I. Sutton, PhD
Relevancy Score: 53

The job is never done, it is amazingly easy to screw-up, and wielding power over others makes it all even harder because you are being watched so closely. Yet, despite all these hurdles, the best evidence shows that many, if not most, people find their bosses to be competent and compassionate.READ»

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Crying at Work

BY Alicia Morga
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I was sitting around the table gabbing with some very high-powered career women when one, in a hushed voice, confided that she started to tear up in a meeting with her boss. My friend was berating herself because everyone knows, women ...READ»

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Is Your Boss a Certified Brasshole? Take the BRASS Quiz

BY Robert I. Sutton, PhD
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The higher the score, the worse your boss. If your boss is really bad, if he or she scores "true" on 15 or more items, then you have the misfortune of working for a certified brasshole.READ»

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What Are Signs That Your Boss Cares About You?

BY Robert I. Sutton, PhD
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My post on the power of bosses who take a moment to offer a simple "thanks" to people got me thinking about the more general question of little signs that your boss cares for you.READ»

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Boys Rules, Girls Lose - Women at Work

BY Steve Blank
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I have realized that advancement in corporations was unconsciously constructed around how men interact with each other. And unless they consciously work at it, most companies are not set up for collaboration. Thus, the women in the workplace around me were having a harder time than the guys.READ»

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It Isn't Just a Myth: A Little Thanks Goes a Long Way

BY Robert I. Sutton, PhD
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Effective bosses work their magic by piling up one small win after another--and realizing that followers are watching their every move. A host of renowned bosses talk about the importance of thanking people, about the power of this small gesture and how failure to express appreciation to people who are working their tails off is a sign of disrespect.READ»

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Clip and Save: Congress's Climate Change To-Do List

BY Tyler Gray
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With lots of new chatter about the bleak future of climate change and the need for further, better study, here's a handy chart you might want to clip and paste up on the company break room fridge.READ»

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Heads Up vs. Heads Down

BY Josh Linkner
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Being "heads-down" on a project to reach a deadline is commonplace, but sometimes being "heads-up" is the path to reach true success.READ»

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Employees Taking Flight

BY Roberta Matuson
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How to really prevent your employees from jumping ship.READ»

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Memo to Execs: Just Say Thank You!

BY Bobby Brannigan
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It's been eight years since I kicked off ValoreBooks, and in that time there have been numerous people who have contributed to our success. From our inception, I've always tried to find ways to show how much I appreciate our ...READ»

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Creating Your Personal BestStress Zone in the Workplace

BY Carol Scott, M.D.
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How to avoid JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater's experience.READ»

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Why Bosses Ought to Be More Interested in What Is True Than What Is New

BY Robert I. Sutton, PhD
Relevancy Score: 47

Perhaps the thing I admire most about A.G. Lafley, who recently stepped down after running Procter & Gamble for a decade, is that, in contrast to so many other CEOs, he doesn't pretend for a second that he discovered a new way to manage, or that his success resulted from any mysterious and complicated methods.READ»

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How to Deal With a Volatile Boss

BY Alicia Morga
Relevancy Score: 48

Mike Hoban's recent missive on "What if Your Boss was as Volatile as the Stock Market" caught my attention. He gives a very detailed account of how a boss acting like the very volatile stock market might come across. The reality is ...READ»

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How to Dress for Work

BY Alicia Morga
Relevancy Score: 56

If you ever saw how I dressed for work at my start-up every day, you'd never take fashion advice from me. As one of my employees pointed out, I wore a uniform of t-shirts, jeans and Patagonia fleeces. After years in the corporate ...READ»

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When and How to Criticize the Boss

BY Paul Glover
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"Angry" over Gen. Stanley McChrystal's candid Rolling Stone interview, Obama wants to hear for himself "what in the world he was thinking." Don’t we all wonder what the General was thinking? Whether you agree or ...READ»

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Re-Engineering a Leader's Value

BY John Baldoni
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Just as companies seek to re-engineer the value propositions of their products, managers should consider doing the same. Companies do it by adjusting the features, benefits and pricing of their offerings; managers do it by ...READ»

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Generation Web 2.0 Workers May Prefer Facebook Perks Over More Pay

BY Kit Eaton
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If you want to motivate your staff to succeed, then trusting them to manage their own time--and use the Net when they like, including for accessing social networks--could get you better results than offering more pay, says new ...READ»

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Investigate a company before you take a job

BY scott griffis
Relevancy Score: 60

CubeCheck.com is a new website that allows potential employees to check out a company’s work environment before they apply there. The site lists lots of useful information about employers including job satisfaction of employees in ...READ»

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