Do you work with a ‘bragaholic’?
Work with a shameless self-promoter? You know, the one who shows off relentlessly and even takes credit for things you’ve done? Here’s how to handle the situation.
Year: 2008
Email’s little helpers: Cool Outlook how-to’s
Drowning in information overflow? Try these cool Outlook tips: Click-and-drag names to your Contacts list. Eliminate the auto-complete names that appear in the “To” field of your emails. Share calendars with others in Outlook 2007 …
Want good treatment? Be a better customer
Want to be the sort of customer who gets priority treatment? Who regularly gets a supplier to lower their price when your exec asks for budget cuts, or compels the barista to add more whipped cream to her mocha lattés? Stick to these five behaviors that, in vendors’ eyes, make for a good customer, says Harvard Business School professor John Quelch.
Ignore these ‘old school’ grammar rules
Sticking to outdated grammar rules could be getting in the way of your business writing, says trainer Fred Kniggendorf. For starters, Kniggendorf says ignore these four grammar rules:
Your PC can double as a fax machine
Searching for a way to send and receive faxes through e-mail, so you can banish the time-consuming, paper-eating fax machine?