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Killer Clutter - 25 June 2004Irritable Desk Syndrome I just knew it. Sitting at your desk all day is bad for you! Meetings, on the other hand, are good for you. There is the exercise you get on the way to and from the meeting, the interaction with other people,
management & leadership
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
gender & sexism
My post the other day on this topic revealed my complete ignorance of house & home magazines (this deficiency in my reading was kindly pointed out in a recent comment). I have rushed to the store to get hold of a bunch of womens' magazines and have been reading
gender & sexism
It is astonishing that many women in the west still seem to be obsessed with housework and cleaning in spite of the advances women have made in the past 100 years. A recent series of visits to various online women's groups (that are ostensibly about something else) showed
gender & sexism
I do not have children, nor do I plan to reproduce - so I suppose you could say I have no skin in this particular game. But I've been thinking about the debates around maternity leave and the low birthrate that have occurred recently in Australia. The key
gender & sexism
Women in the western world are actually very lucky in many ways. Now there are so many choices for women - education, full time career, part time work, family, no family, travel, etc. But for men there does not seem to be so many choices. Many women of my acquaintance
ideas
One thing that the big focus nowadays on so-called 'family friendly' workplaces (including maternity/paternity/parental leave) has overlooked is that this excludes the many people who for various reasons do not have children. The question is 'what about us'? While parents are getting time off,
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Found this site in my wanderings the other day when I was supposed to be studying for an exam. It is based on a book called The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers by James M. Citrin and Richard A. Smith and more info can be found at www.5patterns.com.