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Ask Annie: Is a messy office hazardous to your career? – Mar. 27, 2006 “People often don’t realize that piles of paper, boxes in corners, and stacks of stuff behind the office door can affect one’s upward mobility,” she says. “Appearances are important.” Why? “Your office is a reflection of your capabilities,” Reiter says. “Even [...]

Google Finance – Google Finance is an early beta product that offers a broad range of information about North American stocks, mutual funds and public and private companies along with charts, news and fundamental financial data.

Public speaking do’s and don’t’s – Lifehacker by Eszter Hargittai As Jerry Seinfeld once noted, at a funeral, most people would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy, since public speaking stresses people out more than death. But giving talks doesn’t have to be such a frightening affair.     ….read more at Lifehacker…

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 In a world of too much work and too much multitasking, the best way to beat the competition may be to do less. Be smarter at work, slack off – Mar. 17, 2006 Remember the story of Archimedes lolling in his bathtub? To an observer, he’d have seemed to be wasting time. While ostensibly doing [...]

H-1B visa cap increase sought in immigration bill – Computerworld MARCH 15, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) – A wide-ranging immigration-reform bill now being debated by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee would, if passed and signed into law, increase the H-1B visa cap from 65,000 to 115,000 and ease the permanent residency process for some foreign nationals with [...]

Fight the Bull – Download Bullfighter Bullfighter is the epoch-defining software that works with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint to help you find and eliminate jargon in your documents. It may look like a little toolbar with three buttons, but it’s actually much more. Bullfighter includes a jargon database and an exclusive Bull Composite Index calculator [...]

Real leaders go where the action is. Have Desk, Will Travel What if the boss didn’t always sit in the corner office, or on the top floor, or closest to the executive washroom? What if the boss made his office wherever the company’s biggest problem was?

Good to Great Companies that make the change from good to great have no name for their transformation — and absolutely no program. They neither rant nor rave about a crisis — and they don’t manufacture one where none exists. They don’t “motivate” people — their people are self-motivated. There’s no evidence of a connection [...]

Having the right leadership skills requires training and development, IT execs say Premier 100: IT leaders aren’t just born, they’re made – Computerworld MARCH 08, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) – PALM DESERT, Calif. — Promoting techies into IT management jobs solely because of their neat appearance and gregariousness isn’t the best way to pick the IT leaders [...]