Work Life & Environment

Magazine articles on office politics, stress, time management, and the work environment.

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AskMen.com May 6, 2013	Favoritism Nancy DiTomaso, who conducted research on the unemployment disparity between whites and blacks, finds that the driving but unspoken force behind it is often the favoritism that results from social networking.
CIO March 26, 2013 Kim S. Nash	How Play at Work Can Lead to IT Innovation All work and no play does more than make Jack a dull boy. It can stifle creativity. A playful office helps corporate problem-solving and sparks innovation.
HBS Working Knowledge March 11, 2013	Marissa Mayer Needs to Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers Marissa Mayer's decision to bring work-at-home Yahoo! employees back to the office has set off a firestorm. The author suggests ways to mitigate the problem.
AskMen.com March 9, 2013 James Fell	Change Your Life It is an adage of time-management that if everything is a priority, nothing is. If you're not finding time to exercise and focus on healthy eating, then it is not a high enough priority for you.
HBS Working Knowledge March 6, 2013 James Heskett	Who Should Manage Our Work Time? An unusual number of time-management publications have crossed the author's desk recently, leading him to question: Who is responsible for the management of our time on the job? What do you think?
AskMen.com March 4, 2013 Joe Feldman	Communication Skills Confidence breeds skill and skill breeds confidence. Eventually, the expectant eyes of your superiors will no longer clam you up. Practice enough, and you'll be able to bring that welling nervousness under control and use it to your advantage.
Job Journal January 13, 2013 Jason W. Womack	It's Time to Cut Your Resolutions Down to Size It's a new year, that time when people strive to make, and keep, resolutions. Most of them will fail for one simple reason -- unreasonable goals. For best results, focus on realistic, reachable objectives.
Job Journal January 13, 2013 Deborah Brown-Volkman	Career Pros: What's Holding You Back? People who are unhappy with their careers can usually improve things by overcoming two stumbling blocks that keep them from moving forward.
AskMen.com January 15, 2013 Mike Sheppard	Key Career Tips Everyone sets ambitious goals for the new year. Most of the time, we let them slide. But if you made some sort of plan to get things progressing at your job, you should really try to stick to it.
HBS Working Knowledge December 19, 2012 Deborah Blagg	How to be Extremely Productive Professor Robert Pozen discusses his new book, Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours, in which he shares performance-enhancing tips on everything from better sleep on overnight business flights to dealing with employees' mistakes.
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