Video: Playing Positive Office PoliticsThis is right onIt's great to hear these tips and know that there are ways to handle difficult people and situations in the workplace. This should be sent around to all the offices that I've been fortunate enough to become acquainted with! Thanks, Starla!Finally...
Mark Watson is a professor and head of the Psychology Department of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. his research focuses on career development and career assessment of primary, secondary and tertiary students from all South African population groups. Mark has published extensively in international...
MEMORIES of the Clinton health-care disaster should figure prominently in Democratic strategic planning. It was a debacle unlike any other in recent history, one the party will want to avoid repeating at all costs. In a few short months in 1994, the public went from strong support for the concept...
The resignation of prime minister Ehud Olmert has gladdened most Israelis. In spite of his mounting unpopularity, he had been clinging to office using all the black arts of politics. Always a man of the right, he suddenly and cynically swerved to the left, thereby alienating his former power base....
DENVER --The notion that young people in this country are apathetic and more concerned with trips to the mall or iPods than who sits in the Oval Office was partially put to rest by a group of junior statesmen from the Bay Area on Wednesday. Five 16-year-olds,...
LEADING ARTICLE Kennedy's crowning of Obama was laden with symbolism History never repeats itself exactly. But long before the electrifying appearance of Ted Kennedy at the Democratic convention it was evident that, with the rise of Barack Obama, American politics might be approaching a moment comparable...
I have been skeptical of Barack Obama's promise to bring change to Washington, to transcend the divisive politics of the past two decades and end the partisan wars by building a new majority. The man who has promised "a new kind of politics" where "old labels don't apply" has voted...
Backers of November's political redistricting measure took the state prison guards union to task Wednesday for giving State Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata $602,000 to help defeat the measure. The four contributions to Perata's Leadership California committee since late May have come as the California Correctional...
*The competing cable news channels have gone further than ever in trying to make their mark. CNN and Fox News have taken over two local bars and utterly transformed them. The CNN Grill is especially impressive. The inside of what until last week was "Brooklyn's" has been repainted in deep...
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Health care cost and availability is on our nation's political radar, and LoneStart Wellness is proposing a politically attractive and patriotic solution to our national health care crisis. The current epidemic of obesity and inactivity is straining finite health care resources and forcing...
DENVER -- Give the Republicans an inch in this Mile High City, and they'll set up a war room down the block from the Democratic National Convention. "A mile high, an inch deep" is the motto for the GOP's new website, notready08.com. It features top Democrats blasting Barack...
DENVER, Colorado AFP — US authorities were Tuesday investigating an alleged plot to kill Barack Obama as he claims the Democratic nomination later this week in Denver, after four people were arrested with a haul of weapons. Denver police were due to reveal details of the case at...
TOKYO AFP — Japan's farm minister faced calls Tuesday to explain himself or resign in a scandal over expenses, dealing a potential new blow to beleaguered Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda. Seiichi Ota, a brash ruling party heavyweight appointed just this month, admitted his political support group booked office...
PROFILE KEN LIVINGSTONE Three months since being ousted as Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone is angry at the media's role in his downfall and its coverage of politics. Now he has his own radio show and plans to turn the heat on his great rival, Boris Johnson. Ian Burrell reports...
Leaving Archa Theatre, Prague With the theatre playing such a large role in the social and political history of the Czechs, it is no wonder that former president Václav Havel's new play has a political theme. Nor is the subject surprising: a leading politician comes to...
The new Mayor of London was meant to be David Cameron's man in City Hall. But the axing of Tim Parker shows that he is determined to be his own person - whatever Central Office thinks The South Bank show NORMAN FOSTER'S ultra-modern glass and...
PENANG, Malaysia AFP — Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's political future hinges on a by-election this week which has been marred by violence and accusations of dirty tricks. Anwar is expected to win the ballot Tuesday in his home state of Penang, and return to parliament in a...
LEADING ARTICLE Not so long ago, the headlines were full of dire warnings about the number of Poles and other East and Central European migrants who were entering Britain. We were told that public services in market towns were being put under intolerable strain and that...
Presidential candidate Barack Obama's upcoming acceptance speech to 75,000 people at Denver's Invesco Field may be sold out, but political junkies in the Mile High City for the Democratic National Convention can still be immersed in presidential ways and means at the American Presidential Experience, a traveling exhibition on tap...
The Oklahoma Bar Association has selected 28 participants for its inaugural Leadership Academy class. "Through this program, the participants will learn how to communicate and motivate more effectively leading to greater success not only in law, but also in service to professional, political, judicial, civic and community...
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