In the business world, knowing how to justify your actions is crucial because you will inadvertently screw things up, sooner or later. But some people panic and give some utterly stupid excuses for why they acted the way they did. And what entry-level workers usually don’t realize is that the same excuse that you tell [...]

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From the Sunday Times:
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Steinwand renewed her insurance policy with Kaiser Permanente, she went to refill her prescription for Copaxone. She had been insured with Kaiser for 17 years through her husband, a federal employee, and had had no complaints about the ...

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In the '50s, it was relatively common to hear of a someone having a nervous breakdown. Today, the term has virtually disappeared. So what exactly was it?

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A recent study, reported in The Wall Street Journal, has found that women with MBAs are twice as likely to be divorced than men with an MBA degree. And that women with professional degrees in law or medicine also seem to get divorced at higher rates than their male counterparts as well. “Women with M.B.A.s described [...]

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  Sam Zell is traveling the U.S using a series of “pep-talks” laced with profanity to shock the Tribune Co.’s 19,000 employees to be more creative or risk seeing their jobs disappear.

 

 

Will his strategy work?

 

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Hilarious quote from BusinessWeek.com: “Marshall Goldsmith, founding director of the Alliance for Strategic Leadership, explains the folly. Because 85% of us think we’re in the top 25% of our peer group, at least six in 10 of us are obviously “delusional” about our abilities.“ Naturally being in the top 25% of my ‘peer group’ (self-delusions aside), I [...]

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I'm not one for on-line tests - they tend to be too general, statistically unreliable and don't reflect reality (not to mention the fact that I usually fail them). I recently saw this quiz and figured it would be harmless to give it a go - guess again my friends.....
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Dear Evil HR Lady (Oh - I do love that title):

I am the general counsel for a small engineering firm in NY, and as such, spend a great deal of my time working with the Human Resources department. Most of the time, it's a kick, but this problem's got even me confounded.

On Friday, one of the HR staffers left early, and from her home, sent an email to her supervisor, the HR manager, stating that something happened at work and that she could not stay in the office any longer.

Her desk is less than 10 feet from her manager's office, and it was likely that her manager (the head of HR) was in her office at the time. She made no effort to seek out either her supervisor, the Director of Operations or anyone else to (1) let them know that there was a problem and (2) that she was leaving early for lunch and would not be returning for the rest of the day. This violated company policy which requires all employees (regardless of status or ...

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Frank Roche, the brains behind KnowHR, had a romp the other day called "10 Ways to Know When Its Time to Get Out of HR." Here are my 5 favorites from Frank's list; click through to see the rest. From...

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