The devil wears Prada, and sometimes, Versace. It’s bad enough to be ignored by a pretty woman. It’s worse when that woman is as sharp as her heels. Gorgeous career women are hard to get. For one, they have their careers as top priority. And it doesn’t mean they’ll say YES after a bit of [...]

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So your small business might just be doing fine as it is. But have you even thought about what would happen if disaster strikes? Like (God-forbid) a tornado or a hurricane decides to wipe out your business office. Okay, so those sound a bit remote but the fact of the matter is, small disasters like [...]

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Computerworld posted this great article on career development for the new year. Call it an option for a new year’s resolution (if you ever believe in that) for IT workers but it brings a lot of insight especially to those who want to advance in their fields next year. Here’s their list with my comments:

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Does your day start and end with having to talk to people over the phone that it trims down your time for work? Here are a few tips on how you can reclaim those precious minutes instead of spending your work hours talking over the phone.

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It’s not so often that billionaires get to write something for us, common folk. In an article for BBC Business, Bill Gates writes about the skills that a person needs to succeed today.

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Being a workaholic is a double-edged blade. Your rise through the corporate ranks might be nigh but your stress levels might just be sky high.  Here’s a set of 10 questions that you can ask yourself to check whether you’re one really busy bee.

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A philosopher said if you get a job you want, you will never have to work a day in your life. Not all of us are lucky enough to land our dream jobs. Sometimes we are stuck in a job we don’t want because we need the money. This life crisis will continue on if [...]

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So after 20 or so years working your ass off from rank-and-file to corporate macho, you finally have the capital to start your own business. A lot of people are just like you. Raring to go to finally create a booming business that’s all yours. And yet so many fail. Why? Here are common traps [...]

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Believe it or not, worrying once in a while may keep you on your toes. And for some people, excessive worrying/ paranoia is actually good for business. Why? Well, paranoia is supposed to push you to try to cover all bases that lead to oftentimes organized and foolproof plans. Hmm… It does make sense. But [...]

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Shifting to a new job often means that you’re out to reorganize your career (or maybe it’s just for a fatter paycheck). But like it or not, you’ll still be the new kid in the block. Never mind if you’re of a high rank or still rank and file, you have to ease in to [...]

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Hehe. Now here’s one site that helps you justify the time you spend slacking off. Give that lame “My dog ate my homework” a Web 2.0 twist with File Destructor 2.0. While you can always claim that Windows chewed your homework as an excuse for a night with the boys, your girl, or with your [...]

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Todd Wilkens wrote this interesting piece about his war against Blackberries and laptops in office meetings. Entitled “My personal war against Crackberry,” Wilkens points out how these devices can divide people’s attention to matters. He shares seven ways on how to curb this phenomenon in office meetings. In this age of wireless Internet and mobile [...]

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Looking for the right person to do the job could take weeks, even months. When was the last time you regretted having hired someone? Was the last one you hired last week worth a cent?

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How hard do you really work? Productivity guru Steve Pavlina once asserted that a regular person usually only does real work and hour a day and yet most of us complain about not having enough time to have a good time. Now this raises the question of the level of work that we really dish [...]

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In the midst of writing your progress report or cooking family dinner, your mind wanders off to other things not necessarily significant. Before you know it, you spent at least ten minutes doing something other than what you were supposed to be doing. Don’t fret, you don’t have a short attention span, you’re just really [...]

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