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Boosting Your Mood and Productivity at Work

It’s Called “Work” for a Reason
You don’t often run across articles titled “How to Improve Your Emotional State and Enjoy Your Vacation” or “Increase Your Enjoyment Efficiency in Eden.” Why? Well, work is known as “work” for reasons having to do with its financial necessity, difficulty in performing, relative unpleasantness ...

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Blog Hack

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32 Hours ago, malicious code infected 2 of the blog’s subdomains and started blasting email and comment spam. As soon as this was detected, tech support took the site down to avoid spamming/infecting other websites and also prevent a ranking drop in search engines due to the outbound spam surge.
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Get Back in the Classroom & Back Into Life!

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Embracing Life’s Changes
We often experience life’s changes as anxious or threatening. At times, even contemplation of different options seems too much to consider on our own. Yet, our experience as parents has taught us that change is often accompanied by growth, confidence and motivation toward even greater goals. It’s a ...

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What You Need to Know Before you Become an Entrepreneur

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Some people dream of starting their own business. Are you one of them? Before you start your new career as an entrepreneur, consider these tips.
Choose an Industry
You want to make money and you know tech start-ups are profitable. However, if you don’t know anything about technology, your business probably won’t ...

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Mind the Gap: Reasons to Take a Year Off After High School

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The traditional educational track has high school students entering into college right away, if they plan to go. In fact, many parents are leery of watching their children delay college out of the fear that recent grads may ultimately decide not to return to school.
But despite these concerns, many students ...

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Cover Your Bases During a Period of Unemployment

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Losing a job is jarring and disappointing, but unfortunately for the recently released, there’s no time to take it easy for a few days while you gather your bearings and grieve your loss. Hitting the market as an unemployed individual brings a lot of uncertainties with it; if you’re facing ...

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Styles of Learning: Series Part 2

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In the first part of our “Styles of Learning” series, we examined how different learning styles can create certain advantages for both students and professionals, and how many people let these styles of learning guide them toward fields where they’re set up for success.
In this second and final part of ...

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How to Give Your Employees a Great Break Room

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In many companies, the break room is an afterthought. After all, employees do their real work at their desks, not while they eat lunch. Actually, the break room may be the most important room in your building. It gives your employees a place where they relax, kick back and unwind. ...

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Rising Together: The Importance of Employee Appreciation

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If JM Barrie was right, “The secret of happiness in not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” In a perfect world everyone would have the perfect job, the perfect employer and be the perfect employee. And have a steady supply of nachos and Diet Coke. The reality is ...

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Holiday Onboarding Etiquette

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Starting a job during the holiday season can have an unsettled feel to it. While you’re just getting into gear at your new workplace, many of your co-workers are getting into holiday mode, looking forward to vacation days and seeing their productivity take a dip. But while more established workers ...

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Guest Post on Organization Survival Playbook: Putting a Face on Distance Relationships in the Workplace

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One of the most palpable characteristics of the XXI century workpace is its reliance on outsourced services. As communication costs plummet, companies are resorting to covering their internal needs over different geographies to reduce costs or tap onto specific talent and know-how not available within their own borders.
With this decentralization ...

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Where are all those payroll and tax deductions actually going? [infographic]

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Every time I look at my paystub, it seems like the list of taxes and fees doubles in size. Maybe it’s due to the fact that the deductions listed seem mysterious and I never know what any of them are, but I’m regularly surprised by the amount and type of ...

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The Organization Survival Playbook Launches on Friday

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I first met Charlee Hanna through Twitter. We started following each other half a year ago and ever since, we’ve established a very fluent communication and she’s become one of the top promoters of this blog.
A few weeks ago, I invited Charlee to guest post. She had to decline because ...

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2 Ingredients to Bake a Perfect Leader

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All of us can be a “boss”; not everyone can become a leader. After all, being a boss is very easy: you just need to be imbued with a little more power than those around you, which grants you the right to give orders and excert that differential of power ...

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IBM to Acquire Kenexa Corp. – Bye Bye Dear Culture

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IBM and Kenexa Corporation announced on August 27th they have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Kenexa*, which happens to be the company I work for. So, hello new employer. Please don’t lay me off :)
As we entered the office on Monday morning, we were intercepted by managers, who broke the news to us before ...

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Study Claims that Mondays Are No Worse Than Any Other Weekday

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You thought you felt the crappiest and moodiest on Mondays? Think again, because according to research published by a team of psychologists at Stony Brook University Mondays are not “the worst” day of the week. Instead, the say that we should leave Mondays alone and that weekdays (as in Monday through ...

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The Rise of Gamification in the Corporate World

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Video Games have gone from being a geeky past time to a multibillion dollar mainstream industry with revenues that surpass Hollywood’s.
The term gamification was coined by Nick Pelling in March 2004 for his gamification consultancy startup Conundra Ltd.
Gamification is the use of game design techniques, game thinking and game mechanics to enhance non-game contexts. It encourages people ...