I recently read a post called Why it’s smart to quit a job after just two weeks of work, which caused some intense debate about how soon is too soon to quit your job. Most readers voiced opinions that six months is a good amount of time to quit if [...]

The Harvard Business Review Online puts out case studies and even has interactive versions online where anyone can take their shot at being an executive and provide comments on the solution. This month’s case study is especially interesting to me because it’s about layoffs.

What is wasting time? How do you define it?

Lately, I have been coming across some odd ideas about time and how it is wasted. Some say that the top ways employees waste time at work are:

surfing the internet
socializing with co-workers
conducting personal business
spacing out
running errands off-premises

This is written with PowerPoint 2007 in mind, since that is what I use (and because it’s awesome). Some of these tips will also be helpful for older versions as well.

In 1997, some consultants at McKinsey & Co. coined the phrase war for talent and it’s been a buzzword ever since. Their follow-up piece, The War for Talent, published in 2000, asserts that the war for talent will last for at least the next 20 years.

But instead, we hear of [...]

Now that I’m done with school I can admit I was somewhat of a lazy student. Maybe the correct spin on that is I was a very efficient student; I did the minimum work required to get the grade that I wanted. On one vocab. test in high school, I discovered a trick [...]