E-mail Housekeeping.
Are you an e-mail chatter box? Do you keep your inbox full rather than empty? Do you suffer from e-mail addiction? Do you know how to give the “e-mail brush-off”?
Did you know that how you manage your inbox says a lot about you? For example, “…if you keep your inbox full rather than empty, it may mean you keep your life cluttered in other ways,” says psychologist Dave Greenfield, who founded the Center for Internet Behavior in West Hartford, Conn.
Often, I would walk by someone’s desk and notice that he or she seemed to have thousands of unanswered e-mails. I …read more
Generation Flap At Work.
Within the last month I have seen article after article on what has been referred to as “a generation gap” in the work place, notably in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and More Magazine.
As Baby Boomers and generations X and Y continue to inhabit and compete for the same positions, promotions and benefits in the work force — we now have a diversity stew that is becoming very difficult to manage. The grumbling about salaries, flex time, dress codes, parents’ rights and a whole myriad of ideologies is loud and getting louder:
The authors of Generations At Work cite …read more




