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- BNET Author Biography
- CC Holland is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a number of national magazines. Online, she was a columnist for AnchorDesk.com and writes regularly for Law.com and BNET. On the other side of the journalism desk, she's been...
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- There's No 'Mom' in Team
- Just in time (okay, a day late) for Mother's Day comes an article in the Des Moines Register dissecting a new and disturbing trend: The interference of parents in the workplace. Blogger Rebecca Thurman defended this influence, claiming that Gen Y's helicopter parents are a good thing...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- 5 Ways to Foil Lunch Thieves
- The top workplace etiquette complaint among office workers? Raiders of the lost lunch. A recent study found that a whopping 97.8 percent of office dwellers believed fridge thieves to be the worst offenders. The Lean Cuisine has left the building. The takeout has taken off. So...
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Motivational Posters Are Lame
- I love "How I Met Your Mother," a sitcom that has some of the smartest writing on television. The set design and the inside jokes are clever, which is why I watched part of the last episode with my DVR set to super slo-mo in an attempt to decipher one...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Do Evil Bosses Have An Edge?
- I was thinking recently about the psychology of motivation, prompted by an article that discussed the evil genius of Apple. The author portrayed head honcho Steve Jobs as a meddling micromanager who pretty much scares the pants off his staff. Seriously, the dude makes people cry. That's in stark contrast...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- 5 Ways to Keep Your Team Intact
- Ask any room full of managers and they'll tell you the same tale: Good people are hard to find and even harder to keep. It takes more than a salary and benefits to keep folks in place. And constant turnover can be hell on your team and its productivity. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- The 3 Secret Signals of Procrastination
- I'm an expert at the art of putting off until tomorrow what I should have been doing today. I'm also quite accomplished at rationalizing my actions -- until I'm pushed up against my deadline so hard that my nose is practically flattened. And that's inevitably when I start railing against...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Office Pranks can be Productive
- I probably shouldn't officially condone office pranks, but sometimes such shenanigans can be great for morale. Not much brings a diverse group of people together better than a good laugh, and a well-planned prank can really get the guffaws going. I thought I'd...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Why Your Mental RAM Can't Cut It
- If you're overwhelmed by your to-do lists, blame your gray matter. Andre Kibbe of Tools for Thought says the reason we get mental disk-space errors is that our short-term memory just isn't equipped to keep track of all our projects. The problem is, you've got a 4-bit brain. The...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Ignore Email and Increase Productivity
- From the "so obvious it's revolutionary" file, Tools for Thought author, Andre Kibbe, suggests a simple way to increase your productivity when it comes to repetitive or small tasks: Let them accumulate and then tackle them all at once. He calls it batching. Take e-mail. Instead of...
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Cussing Can Build Camaraderie
- A new study claims that a foul mouth is the worst of workplace faux pas. According to the report, 36 percent of bosses have issued a formal warning and 6 percent have fired an employee for swearing. Employers may even dump their workers for off-hours profanity: The Washington Post recently...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- 3 Ways to Connect With Gen-Y Workers
- Generation Y workers are slackers... social butterflies... poster children for Facebook, cell phones, IMs, and ADHD. So goes the conventional wisdom from the Baby Boom generation in the workplace. But according to Bea Fields, author of "Millennial Leaders: Success Stories From Today's Most Brilliant Generation Y Leaders,"...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Sleep Affecting Work…Or Vice Versa?
- A new study from the University of Michigan suggests that job-related conflicts and issues can cause sleep problems. In fact, the study found that work conditions affected sleep patterns, instead of the other way around. "Massive changes over the past half-century have reshaped the workplace, with major...
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Team Building by Torture? Not So Effective
- By now you've heard about the overzealous manager who used waterboarding as a motivational tool for an underperforming sales force. (Boss to team: "You saw how hard Chad fought for air right there. I want you to go back inside and fight that hard to make sales.") ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-26
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- Race results - Zolder.
- 1. Wendlinger/Sharp Jetalliance Racing Aston Martin DBR9 2hr 00min 31.246secs GT1 2. Kumpen/Longin PK Carsport Corvette C5R +32.969secs GT1 3. Bartels/Biagi Vitaphone Racing Maserati MC12 +33.650secs GT1 4. Deletraz/Hezemans Carsport Holland Corvette C6R +36.021secs GT1 5. Ramos/Montanari Vitaphone Racing...
- Articles 2007-10-21
- Qualifying times - Silverstone.
- Full qualifying times for the second round of the FIA GT Championship at Silverstone, Britain. 1. Deletraz/Hezemans Carsport Holland Corvette C6R 1min 43.504secs GT1 2. Wendlinger/Sharp Jetalliance Racing Aston Martin DBR9 1min 43.745secs GT1 3. Salo/Biagi Vitaphone Racing Maserati MC12 1min 44.035secs...
- Articles 2007-05-05
- 125: Webb excited ahead of debut test.
- 15-year-old Dani Webb will start his first full season of 125cc grand prix racing with the Dutch-based Arie Molenaar Honda team when the new season kicks off in Qatar on February 24. In preparation for the biggest season of his career so far, Webb has been training all...
- Articles 2007-02-01
- How to meet a strange dog safely: more often than not, the best approach is no approach at all.
- As a dog owner or enthusiast, you probably consider yourself to be a dog person--someone innately in tune with the canine mindset, a person who loves dogs and expects them to love you back. If you subscribe to this approach, you might think nothing of walking up...
- Articles 2007-02-01
- HEY MUM, LET'S GO INTO THE WILD
- My friend Sarah reckons she was nearly eaten by a hippo when she was sitting by a camp-fire on safari last year. The children never tire of hearing her story. Apparently, she got away by climbing up a tree in the nick of time, although she...
- Articles 2007-01-21
- Would you describe your dog as being anxious? There are ways to diagnose his behavior and modify it, if necessary. Here's how.
- Dogs, like humans, are often pigeonholed by personality. think about how often you've heard someone describe their dog as a clown, an athlete, a moocher or a lady. We apply adjectives like finicky, antisocial, hyperactive and silly to our canine companions as easily as we do...
- Articles 2006-12-01
- Canine compulsive disorder: tail-chasing might not be just fun and games. Here's why--and here's some help.
- Thanks to pop psychology and television shows such as "Monk," the general public has become increasingly aware of the human psychiatric disorder known as obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. What many pet owners don't realize, however, is that a canine equivalent exists--and that it can cause dogs...
- Articles 2006-10-01
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