What do you work for?
Kate Carruthers Had an interesting conversation with some friends recently and it got me thinking about what we work for. In Western societies many of us work, in addition to money and…
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Does being nice pay off for women?
Not really – especially for women – according to some research by Guido Heineck that was cited in the Daily Telegraph recently. None of this is a surprise to me…
Social networking & your career
I had the pleasure of speaking, along with Karen Ganschow from Telstra, at the FITT CeBIT lunch today in Sydney. We had a great turnout and there were even a…
Social networking for your career
I’ll be talking about social networking from a career perspective at the FITT lunch on 13 May in Sydney. This is very topical now with the global financial crisis starting…
Social networking for your career
I’ll be talking about social networking from a career perspective at the FITT lunch on 13 May in Sydney. This is very topical now with the global financial crisis starting…
Hard work beats talent
I have seen many young, fit, intelligent people with a fine education, sound values and good family behind them. But they do not realise that what they make of them…
Reasonable Hours of Work in the ICT Industry
A friend who works in IT support (for a very large and well known IT industry multi national doing security patching and stuff) just phoned me because his boss wants…
Women and getting ahead in business
Just had an anonymous comment on an old post. The commenter said: “Honey, you must be very young. It’s not just about how hard you work. The ole’ boy’s network…
More on Bullies @ work
Recently I posted on bullies @ work & made some fairly harsh comments about a colleague who had been doing this sort of thing often and openly. The other day…
Bullies @ work
I am getting really tired of bullying in the workplace. I’ve worked in many places – being in info tech I change jobs every two years – and the bullies…