by bookshepherd_admin | May 17, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
How can you move from being on the “inside” to being on the “outside”? Simple . . . get promoted. It’s not uncommon to want to move up. After all, you’ve taken those extra courses, are lots more work savvy than you were a year ago and it’s a good way to move up the...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 17, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
Every woman knows that workplaces are not perfect. Nor are they ideal settings in which the majority of the “alert” awake hours are spent. No, what is perfect is usually a fantasy, a myth, a fairy tale or a line in a romance novel or movie. You know the...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 17, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
Ineffective people costs companies money — the bigger the company, the bigger the amount. Whether it’s a few thousand or several million, it affects you. As an employee, lost revenues could mean layoffs; as a manager, lost revenues could label you as mediocre...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 16, 2009 | Personal Smarts
To retire, or not to retire? For the Boomer generation (1946-1964), just what is retirement? If you are a Boomer, most likely you’ve noticed a few changes. Some are physical … you creak, might not be as flexible as just a few years ago, may be thinking about joint...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 16, 2009 | Personal Smarts, Workplace Smarts
Last month, I flew to San Diego for a speaking engagement. Waiting for my luggage, I glanced around the airport and thought I had arrived on the production sets of Dancing with the Stars and Melrose Place. The women’s range of dress was anything but just plain pants...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 16, 2009 | Personal Smarts
This summer, I became an Empty Nester. Before the 21 year-old grandson moved out, I was fast-forwarded into the teen world of communicating. “What’s for dinner?” he text messaged from his bedroom to my kitchen. “Open your door and find out,” I fingered and thumbed...
