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Bob Goldman (Sep 14, 2012)
You may think your entire career is one big slog on a treadmill, but take it from me, you don't know slogging until you've spend 8 hours a day at your desk, working and walking. And walking. And walking.... more
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Bob Goldman (Sep 13, 2012)
As Barbra Streisand so lyrically put it, "people who need people are the luckiest people in the world." They are also the most annoying.
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Bob Goldman (Sep 07, 2012)
It may seem to you that it's a waste of time to lie to yourself when there are so many other people you can lie to, but there are real advantages to lying to yourself, or practicing "self-deception," as we scientists call it.... more
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Bob Goldman (Sep 06, 2012)
If the management of your company doesn't care enough to offer you the luxury of a treadmill desk, some of the other perks sound good.
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Bob Goldman (Aug 30, 2012)
You have annoying habits. You have annoying ideas. You're annoying at work. You're annoying when you're not at work. Ask anyone. ... more
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Cliff Ennico (Aug 29, 2012)
When you are starting a business, it's OK to be ignorant. Very often, your marketplace will insist you take a different direction than you originally wanted to go.... more
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Bill Tatro (Aug 29, 2012)
I pulled into the parking lot looking for one or the other of my favorite attendants. I was met instead by a big metal sign that read “This lot is no longer attended.”
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Bob Goldman (Aug 23, 2012)
Unfortunately, the sins you committed last night are just not appropriate when you arrive in the office in the morning. ... more
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Bob Goldman (Aug 17, 2012)
You feel a profound admiration for my willingness to tell you that you're a stupid idiot. You think I'm courageous and principled and exactly the kind of person you'd like to promote.
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Political Calculations (Aug 11, 2012)
The annual average income earned by all individual women has nearly tripled, while the income for men has increased by a factor of 2.1. ... more
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Bob Goldman (Aug 09, 2012)
I first heard the buzz about self-deception from the "Work & Family" columnist for The Wall Street Journal, Sue Shellenbarger. "Lying to yourself," Shellenbarger writes, "can actually have benefits."
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Bob Goldman (Aug 02, 2012)
Of course, you and I don't need a fancy research study to know there is absolutely no question about the actual link between sedentary behavior and employment.
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Political Calculations (Jul 27, 2012)
Of these 5,086 bank crimes, 4,534 resulted in the offenders making off with loot, or 89.2% of the total. That is what we'll call our "initial success rate", as the remaining 552 bank crimes failed to produce any income at all for the offenders for any length of time.
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Bob Goldman (Jul 26, 2012)
Another problem with writing your resume is reading all the advice available on writing your resume.... more
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Bob Goldman (Jul 19, 2012)
Having a bad day? If your answer is no, you are either the luckiest person in the universe or the dumbest.... more
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Bob Goldman (Jul 12, 2012)
You may not understand this dichotomy, because you are one of the fortunate people who don't know what a dichotomy is. ... more
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Bob Goldman (Jul 06, 2012)
You would think that in this economy simply having a job to go to and a desk to sit behind and a boss to complain about would be a vacation.... more
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Bob Goldman (Jun 29, 2012)
If we're going to get out this economic mess, we'll all have to work harder. Especially you.... more
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Bob Goldman (Jun 21, 2012)
If you learn that your evenings are wasted, mostly because you are wasted, drinking with your low-rent work friends at the Kit Kat Klub, you can improve the situation by starting your drinking well before breakfast.... more
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Cliff Ennico (Jun 20, 2012)
Nobody wants a commencement speech that's a total downer. But I do wish today's graduates were getting a dose of reality and solid advice along with the platitudes.... more