For some workers, a job is just a means to an end. Take the worker who repeatedly checks the clock as afternoon ticks toward 5 p.m. Or the worker earning $10 an hour, who has a job only so he can afford to escape to the desert on weekends to ride dirt bikes.
There is nothing [...]

It is nice to exercise freedoms and feelings at work as well as off work. The problem is that everybody feels that way, and since the office brings people together, they can easily get in each other’s way.
When there are seven, 70, or 700 in the staff or in a building, reality dictates that [...]

If you are in-charge of a meeting, it can be very frustrating when the participants start disagreeing. Precious time is wasted and decisions are left unmade. So how should you handle the situation?
Use Humor
When nothing else seems to diffuse tension between disagreeing participants, you might as well crack a joke ease up frayed nerves. Humor [...]

James, a newly-installed manager in a manufacturing firm has a problem and it goes by the name of George, a production engineer directly under his supervision. They were just given an order by a foreign client and it was standard operating procedure for the company to create small work units that would handle the order. [...]