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• Everyone is Helpful in His Own Way

  I love watching George Carlin specials on HBO. Even after all of these years, his cynical, grumpy-old-man schtick is still funny to me. The other night, I saw an episode in which Carlin commented on how ridiculous it is when you are in mourning, or going Read More... Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Office Politics, People Skills, Daily Life, Work

• The New Inane E-mail Forwards? YouTube Videos.

  Just when you thought the fad of forwarding silly or inappropriate joke e-mails to colleagues had run its course, along comes YouTube . Now don’t get me wrong: I think YouTube is the greatest entertainment invention since Nintendo. My favorite YouTube Read More... Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Communication, Current Affairs, HR Issues, Office Politics, Professionalism, Technology, Daily Life, Workplace Humor

• Your Boss Has Needs Too

  Thanks to Seth Godin and ExecPundit for sharing this insightful piece titled “Note from Boss to Employees.” Some of the highlights: I am sometimes under enormous pressure from upper management; pressure that you seldom see. Anything that you can do to Read More... Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 12:49 PM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Business, Office Politics, Ownership & Initiative, People Skills, Daily Life, Work

• Fantasy Football: The New Office Politics?

  Fantasy Football season is here already, you say? Great. I guess that means I can kiss my husband goodbye for the next several months, except when he wakes me up in the middle of the night to obsess about who he passed over in the draft. MSNBC just ran Read More... Posted Monday, August 07, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 3 Comments Filed under: Networking, Office Politics, Daily Life Attachment(s): http://www.nflfantasyfootball.com/nfl_fantasy_football/1.jpg

• Fireproofing Those Bridges

  Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the drama surrounding Star Jones Reynolds’ departure from ABC’s daytime talk show, The View . Reynolds’ contract was not renewed for next season and she and the producers decided on a Read More... Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Office Politics, Daily Life