Archive | March, 2007

Boss Checked-out!

If you have a lousy boss, even the best job is not enjoyable. Your relationship with your boss plays a big role in your overall professional happiness. You will most probably lose the battle of “remove-the-boss”, and waiting for your boss to change may keep you waiting for a very long time. If you are [...]

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Good Moods

Good moods, while they last, enhance our ability to think with flexibility and with more complexity, hence making it easier to find solutions to problems, whether intellectual or interpersonal. So one way to help someone think through a problem is to tell them a joke. Laughing, like elation, seems to help people think more broadly [...]

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Micromanager

Are you a micromanager, or do you report to a micromanager? In case you don’t know, micromanagement is a really bad style of management where the manager closely observes and controls his/her employees. The micromanager likes to monitor and assess every step taken, and possibly wants a plan/proposal from employees for every step of their [...]

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