Packing eco-minded travel needs
Help your eco-minded boss travel with a green conscience. Steer him toward these goods, perfect for packing.
Year: 2008
Could rituals help you score big?
Like a professional basketball player performs a ritual before a big moment—say, bouncing the ball exactly six times before taking a free throw—such routines can boost your own productivity by minimizing the variables that distract you. Instead of winging it, make up your own rituals …
Align work with your heart’s desire
You’ll be amazed by what you can do when you’re called upon. That’s what DeeDee Jonrowe says about competing in her 27th Iditarod, the 1,150-mile dog-sled race across Alaska, after surviving breast cancer and a car accident that critically injured her and her husband.
Swapping corporate know-how
Pick up know-how swiftly by swapping spots with someone. Here are two ways to do it, stolen from two company playbooks.
Helping a co-worker with cancer
What’s the best way to help a co-worker who has cancer? Here’s advice from Kris Hart, a 43-year-old vice president of global brand management at Harrah’s Entertainment and a breast cancer survivor.
No time for waste: 4 cost cutters
Cost-cutting is the name of the game during tough economic times. One of the best cost-cutting strategies is to reduce waste—it frees up cash and generates measurable environmental benefits. Here are several paper-saving strategies that will make you look like the office hero.
5 ‘tweaks’ to ask your shipper
Scope out your shipping-fee statement for potential cost savings. Here are five questions to ask your carrier.
Words to work by
“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” — Theodore Roosevelt.
Swaddling the cost of child care
Cheaper child care is increasingly necessary as budgets tighten, says Lisa Belkin, a New York Times reporter who covers workplace issues. Here are some of the creative ways working families are reducing the costs.
Need career advice? Poll for answers
Diane Darling, owner of Effective Networking, didn’t realize her casual purple pantsuits were keeping her from landing clients—until people told her. Darling sent a survey, using online polling tool SurveyMonkey.com … That’s where she learned that she dressed too casually.