As a federal leader, you no doubt have a lot on your plate, and it may be tempting to shrug off employee complaints about their jobs and organization.
Bob Berkowitz | Posted 04.18.2012
Managers would be wise to allow employees to invent, or re-fashion, their jobs as long as it fits the company's needs and that of its customers or clients.
BJ Gallagher | Posted 05.20.2012
Author Andrea Kay refers to herself as a Career Whisperer. Her book reminds me of my favorite Tolstoy quote: "Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself."
Posted 02.17.2012
Is your job a way to pay the bills, or is it part of how you define yourself? This week, Catherine Rampell of The New York Times took a look at ho...
SavvySugar | Posted 10.24.2011
It's not the job, it's you. Did you ever stop to think about the possibility of you (or rather your genetic makeup) being the one to blame for the job...
Posted 07.31.2011
The American economy might be recovering, but the Americans themselves aren't feeling the satisfaction. A new poll released today by Gallup, based ...
Sherry Moss | Posted 11.17.2011
I recently had dinner with one of my former students. When I got to the important question, "Do you find meaning in your work?" I was taken aback by her response.
Curtis Valentine | Posted 05.25.2011
Winning the future may not only begin with our children asking themselves what they want to be when they grow up, but also making sure America can actually work to make it so.
Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 11.17.2011
I believe one of the root problems is that most people stumble into their professions without enough self-knowledge to figure out what they would actually be great at.
Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011
I know all too well that getting unstuck is rarely going to be easy and that working around what's in the way is often messy. However, there are four basic keys I have discovered that you can apply.
Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011
The first area of focus in order to achieve satisfaction and success in the day-to-day world of work may well be on your own mindset.
Edward Muzio | Posted 11.17.2011
The way you start your interactions is powerful. If you can find a way to begin with information, rather than with a question, your chances of useful exchange increase considerably.
Joe Robinson | Posted 11.17.2011
Behind the game face, the work face, a nation is silently imploding from stress and overload, from lean-sizing, technology run amok.
DailyFinance | CHARLES WALLACE | Posted 05.25.2011
Sure, the recession has been hard on the unemployed. But what about workers who still have jobs? Turns out, they are depressed, too. They are exhauste...
Edward Muzio | Posted 05.25.2011
When I was in college, one of my odd jobs was to work at the dining hall. One of the strangest things about my experience was the name tag. Customers needed to know that you were not just a white-aproned server drone, but a real person.
Posted 05.25.2011
According to a new study (.pdf) done by Harvard's Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, male and female professors remain on an unlev...
Marcia Reynolds | Posted 11.17.2011
Make yourself indispensable with a strategic perspective and you have leverage for writing your own job description.
Roxanne Emmerich | Posted 05.25.2011
When asked, "Are you one of the Top 10% of performers in your company?" in a Business Week survey, a startling 84 percent of middle managers answered yes.
Roxanne Emmerich | Posted 05.25.2011
It's important for workers to stop thinking the grass is greener in the next pasture. The answer is not to leap into another workplace, but to help build a more positive workplace so you can love the one you're with.
Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 05.25.2011
People turn to executive coaches for a variety of reasons. Sure, if you're in a jam, an executive coach can help, but they're not only for crisis situations.
Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- We can't get no job satisfaction. Even Americans who are lucky enough to have work in this economy are becoming more unhappy wit...
David Becker | Posted 05.25.2011
Farming is hard work, yet the farmers I meet are some of the most satisfied people I know. Odd, because in my experience, running a small business can be stressful and not a whole lot of fun.
msn.com | Posted 11.17.2011
New research suggests U.S. states with wealthier, better educated and more tolerant residents are also happier on average....
Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011
In recent weeks, we talked about why to do lists don't work, and then showed the opposite view by offering some ideas about how to use a to do list ef...
Portfolio | Liza Porteus Viana | Posted 05.25.2011
For Manish Vora, then 26, a salary package around $500,000 wasn't enough. Nor was his epic climb from Citigroup i-banker to research director at a bou...
Tom Fox | Posted 04.30.2012