by bookshepherd_admin | May 17, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
Think pre-2000. Your stocks are doing great; your 401(k) is on track; your job is ideal; you’ve got all the benefits you could imagine wanting; and the people you work with and for make your workplace a joy. Your life was almost perfect . . . until your boss...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 17, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
Do you feel droopy? Does the nightly news or the morning papers depress you? Do you work with people who continue to grumble about everyone and anything? Is anyone in your family always looking at the glass being half-empty? Do you know people who just don’t...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 17, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
It’s that time again … the Monday morning meeting. George has got the fastest thumbs in the West as he texts to all; Emily has mastered her latest doodle (and is thinking about bring color pens to enhance it to the next meeting); Michelle is cracking her gum so loudly...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 17, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
Sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint the breaking point when you decide that enough is enough. Whether you’ve been overlooked for a promotion, put down by a coworker or manager or work in a toxic workplace, you’ve decided that you are out of there. The excuse you give, and...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 17, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
Donald Trump routinely asks the wannabe apprentices that land in the boardroom the same thing each week on The Apprentice. In the last 15 minutes, he probes the project leader, “Who failed on the task? Who’s responsible for causing you to be here?” Fingers and mouths...
by bookshepherd_admin | May 17, 2009 | Workplace Smarts
There’s no question that the workplace euphoria of a few years ago has been replaced with workplace scarcity—employees ask, “Will I be next . . . or will I be able to get a job?” Prior to 9/11 and the Iraqi War, Generation Xers and the Millennials had been sheltered...
