In their 2008 Investor’s Guide, Fortune Magazine offered ten tips to help us prevent the heat of the moment from melting our better judgment. The tips form an acronym – Think Twice – and are worth keeping in mind no matter what you’re thinking about or what decision you’re trying to make. Take the Global View. Always keep an eye on where ...

My friend Lisa Haneberg over at the Management Craft blog cites an excellent article from HR Capitalist on how to deal with pay inequities.  Kris Dunn shares the following scenario.  You're a young manager new to your role, and after 2-3 months, you finally get some payroll data on your team.  You're scrolling through the ...

[ImageAttachment] A topic that’s been coming up a lot in my discussions with twenty and thirty-something employees is empowerment.  Today’s younger workers want to come into a job and have the autonomy to take hold of projects and run with them self-sufficiently.  However, their baby boomer managers, more often than not, hold them back ...

It’s one of the great questions we ponder.  In order to be successful in the business world, your supervisors and colleagues must view you as a consistent contributor.  But assuming your boss isn’t someone who recognizes your achievements every day, how can you let people know what you’ve accomplished without coming across as an arrogant ...

[ImageAttachment]   The latest article from MSN/Career Builder, by Kate Lorenz, touches on the age-old problem of the boss from hell.   Lorenz cites a recent Gallup Poll of 1 million workers, which found that the most common reason employees leave a company relates to a stressful or problematic relationship with their ...