Working for You Isn't Working for Me
A difficult relationship with a boss can take a negative toll on your health, your home life, and your daily experience at work. Here's how to detect when things are going South, and how to take control.
A difficult relationship with a boss can take a negative toll on your health, your home life, and your daily experience at work. Here's how to detect when things are going South, and how to take control.
Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
Most of us have experienced the dumb boss, the arrogant boss, the mean boss. But, as the accompanying collection of famous business tyrants illustrate...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.01.2009 | Business
Money manager Arnold Silver has been told by some retailers in California and elsewhere that they won't hire any Santas this year -- or else hire far fewer of them -- in an effort to cut costs.
Nicole Williams | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living
It's great if you have a fabulous job where you get to travel, get chauffeured around in fancy cars, and take meetings with bigwigs. But it's a lot cooler if you don't broadcast it.
Michael Sigman | Posted 03.01.2009 | Living
"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and...
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 11.14.2008 | Living
I don't claim to be the best boss in the world, but I try to be as aware of my effect on my employees as I can. Good bosses encourage; bad ones demoralize.
Karen Nussbaum | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
As the executive director of Working America, the two-million-member community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, I like to encourage people to complain, and even to whine, about the problems they face on the job.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.10.2008 | Business
Today I would like to finish what began about a year ago and has continued with some energy ever since: the work we have done together on two important topics -- the Crazy Bosses we serve and the Bulls**t Jobs we occupy.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business
People who feel particularly comfortable yelling at others, but whose feelings are incredibly sensitive to any kind of slight is an executive trait.
Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living