With the news of Mark Zuckerberg being named Time magazine’s man of the year, it’s probably no coincidence that Facebook was named the best place to work by career site Glassdoor.com. What makes it so great? And are there any similarities between that office and yours? Facebook was rated on work/life balance, recognition, and compensation…
Category: Soft Skills
Tips for learning how to manage your boss
In this day and age, many managers and bosses expect employees to have opinions and be a part of the decision-making process. The hardest part about managing your boss is developing the right frame of mind to manage them. Many of us will find this unnatural at first as it goes against everything we were…
Franchise trainees learn all aspects of business — even mopping
If you run your own business, should you be proficient at every aspect of the business — even scrubbing toilets and working the register? Or, is that what you pay people to do, so you don’t have to worry about it? There’s an interesting story at www.businessweek.com about an unpaid internship program for would-be franchisees…
When does working from home make sense?
It’s happened twice for me so far. Once, I was on the phone with a city’s transportation director, working on a story on deadline. The other time, I was talking to a judge. Luckily for me, both were dog people. What happened? I was making a work call when someone buzzed my front door, sending…