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Women and getting ahead in business

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 is alive and well - you just haven't reached a high enough level

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Article: Businesses don't have social responsibilities; people do

This article has been reproduced in full below, it raises some very important issues about corporate and individual responsibility. Even staff in the Nazi concentration camps were assisted in rationalising terrible acts because they were only following orders. Thus they could abrogate individual responsibility to act in humane ways. We

More on Bullies @ work

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 I actually had some time to talk with this person and discovered that they had been going through a very difficult

Bullies @ work

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 are mainly babyboomer men (there do not seem to be many women bullies where I've worked). At the

Business Evolutionist: The Origins of Unengaged Employees

Business Evolutionist: The Origins of Unengaged Employees

The Origins of Unengaged Employees has quite an interesting take on employee engagement, but I'm not sure that I agree completely. Engagement is all about feeling like you are a part of something bigger and more meaningful than yourself alone. When I've been engaged at work

Professionalism & IT (or not as the case may be)

Professionalism & IT (or not as the case may be)

Aaargh!! It is an unending source of amazement to me that our society will not let a hairdresser cut your hair or a mechanic fix your car unless they've done a multi-year apprenticeship BUT they will let any half-wit who thinks they have a clue play

Why are all telcos unable to manage any customer service at all?

Why are all telcos unable to manage any customer service at all?

Recent experiences with two different telcos add up to the same thing - shockingly poor customer service. #1 There have been a series of problems with one of the web pages I'm associated with. The telco in question has DNS problems every other day such that the site disappears.

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