In his bestsellers Brand Warfare and Career Warfare, author David D'Alessandro offered sharp advice for building a brand and building a career. His new book, Executive Warfare is the advanced class for the truly ambitious. The book covers what it takes to rise to the top-and to do the even harder thing, which is survive there.  In ...

My friend Chris Russell over at Secrets of the Job Hunt reported on a recent study by global HR consulting firm Development Dimensions International and Monster that examined the most inappropriate questions job seekers have been asked during an interview.  The study coordinators divided the most popular responses into several categories, ...

This week, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen over at the Time: Work in Progress blog talked to Pat Lencioni, author of the new book Three Signs of a Miserable Job.   Here are the goods:   The first is anonymity, which is the feeling that employees get when they realize that their manager has little interest in them a human being and ...

[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 ...