Archive for May, 2008

When Office Talk Can Hurt Your Business

  Can Office Gossip Be Good For You? No matter how large or small your office, office gossip is universal. Office rumors stimulate conversation and provide natural breaks to make the day go by faster. We all should be careful about engaging in office gossip, as it often can be derogatory when aimed toward others. [...]

Employers Should Talk To Their Workers In The Style of Language They Understand

Communicating with your boss: Tips for Generation Y By Katherine Spencer Lee (Computerworld) Like every generation, Gen Y is subject to its share of myths and stereotypes as it enters the IT workforce. Sometimes painted as privileged, technology-obsessed individuals who avoid face-to-face interaction, Millennial workers actually have many basic needs in common with their more [...]

Generation X, Or How to Advance Careers Without Harboring Too Much Resentment

Generation X Doesn’t Like You By Lance Haun • May 21st, 2008 • Category: Lead Story And who can blame them?! I certainly can’t. I would be irritated as hell with the work environment if I were a Gen X’er because they are supposed to be entering the earning years of their life (the one [...]

If You Care About Green Industries, Do Your Corporate Research

China ‘now top carbon polluter’ By Roger Harrabin BBC Environment analyst China has already overtaken the US as the world’s “biggest polluter”, a report to be published next month says. The research suggests the country’s greenhouse gas emissions have been underestimated, and probably passed those of the US in 2006-2007. The University of California team [...]