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- Know your foes in office politics
- I blogged recently about a company that conducted, along with IBM, a study that showed that online gamers develop leadership qualities--specifically strategic strengths--from the games they play.Online games aren't the only source of strategy education. The Art of War, the Chinese military treatise written by Sun Tzu in the 6th...
- Tags: Office Politics, Coworkers
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Love (gone bad) in the office
- We spend more than a third of our lives in the office so it's not surprising that office romances are common. I know quite a few people, in fact, who met their future spouses at the office. Those are the happy endings. But for every one of those, there are...
- Tags: Career Development, Office Politics, Office, Sexual Harassment, toni bowers, Workplace
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- 4 outdated ideas. Or maybe not.
- Here are a few things to "noodle" today:1. Does it really matter if a leader has a strong sense of integrity?In a study done by Fast Company magazine last year, 1665 respondents were asked about the importance of ethics in company leaders in todays business climate.The good news: 95% of...
- Tags: Office Politics, Morale, Mentoring, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, General, Company Culture, Communication, Coaching, Co-workers, Career Development, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Should we trust people to manage their own job life?
- More and more companies are moving toward a work-scheduling system designed to allow individuals at all levels to determine what days, hours, even weeks they will be working on the job or at the office.All evidence points to this becoming the way of the future. Its been well established within...
- Tags: Workplace Strategies, Teams, Success, Staffing, Staff, Reputation, Personnel, Personal Development, Performance, Office Politics, Morale, Mentoring, Management, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Hiring, General, Employees, Discipline, Company Perks, Company Culture, Coaching, Co-workers, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- "Subtle" sexism is still a problem
- I had a professor in college who was a militant feminist and a nun. I never could quite reconcile that in my mind, but anyway, this woman taught Womens Literature. Although I was grateful to her for introducing me to the works of female authors (sad to say, up until...
- Tags: Women In It, toni bowers, Sexual Harassment, publishing gal, Office Politics, Morale, Job Satisfaction, General, Co-workers, Career
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Adventures of a coddled employee
- Most people would feel very lucky to work for an organization that is reluctant to fire anyone. And, admittedly, that attitude is better than an intolerant one in which employees arent nurtured to perform at their best. But there is a downside to keeping a person no matter what their...
- Tags: Workplace Strategies, toni bowers, Teams, publishing gal, Office Politics, Management, General, Firing, Career Development, Career
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- The best managers? They're not afraid of looking dumb.
- Ever noticed that some managers believe they are supposed to know everything about their area of responsibility? They dont usually last very long. Often their organizations dont either.Great managers and leaders realize that they can never know everything. And theyre comfortable with that. Poor managers...
- Tags: leader
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- Managing Up. Not the same as Sucking Up.
- Most of todays more-thoughtful managers believe that the best way to improve their results is to ensure that their subordinates, or team members, are working at their own best levels. Consequently, a great deal of time is spent working with their folks as individuals, or in team meetings. By...
- Tags: Boss, Career, Career Development, Co-workers, Coaching, Company Culture, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Management, Meetings, Mentoring, Office Politics, Reputation, Women In It, Workplace Strategies
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Characters in IT Hell
- Characters in IT HellThe geek – the geek knows everything there is to know about every single Windows patches ever come out. The geek is usually at the bottom of the hierarchy, not a lot of social skill, yet indispensable since he does all the real work around the...
- Tags: computer, information technology, it management, jollyyellowgiant@..., loyal guy, office politics, token, trusted loyal guy
- Discussion threads 2007-03-02
- Coping with a screw-up
- At some point, everyone steps on a landmine on the job. Things are going along fine, and then out of the blue, you realize you just did something which makes you feel like a total amateur. What then occurs can range from being fired to simply being scolded....
- Tags: career
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Boss on your case? Try these 3 quick tips
- Here are 3 things to keep in mind during the times when all forms of common sense seem to have gone up in smoke and craziness is breaking loose: #1 Results = Rewards. There will be times it seems that form and process are the most...
- Tags: Boss, Career, Coaching, Discipline, Leadership, Management, Office Politics, Success, Workplace Strategy
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Firing of IT workers over security leak is upheld
- It seems the firings of two IT workers at Ohio University last August has been upheld. Tom Reid, former director of communication network services, and Todd Acheson, former UNIX systems manager, were fired after security breaches exposed 173,000 files containing Social Security numbers, names, medical records and home addresses.The two...
- Tags: Discipline, Firing, IT worker, Office Politics, publishing gal, security, Todd Acheson, toni bowers, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
- His brain doesn't work like yours.
- Last year, when I was working on my book, "21 Ways Women in Management Shoot Themselves in the Foot"; several female clients suggested that I address a few things they'd been unable to figure out on their own. Given that the recommendations came from women using a male career coach, it...
- Tags: Career Development, Coaching, Communication, game, male, Office Politics, Personal Development, Power, women, Women In It, Workplace Strategy
- Blog posts 2006-10-26
- Convincing loyalist execs to replace antique systems
- Convincing loyalist execs to replace antique systemsWe fear change. Any attempt to offset our current business practices will be shot down with extreme ignorance. That goes double for any type of new technology that may present a learning curve. One day, disaster will strike, but until then...
- Tags: TonyBaggaDonuts, office politics, management, upgrade, it management, telephone
- Discussion threads 2006-05-17
- Boss who is really, really naive
- Boss who is really, really naiveHELP!! My boss is 24 years old, and very, very inexperienced in the management field I work in telecom. She's asking me to do some things which I disagree with concerning the databases for which I am administrator
- Tags: database, chrisbat, office politics, permissions, boss, frustration, off-topic, chrispy1
- Discussion threads 2005-10-03
- TR's Hot Topics: Career advancement, XP corruption
- TECHREPUBLIC COMMUNITY NETNOTE NEWSLETTER for October 4, 2005TR'S HOT TOPICS: CAREER ADVANCEMENT, XP CORRUPTION It's career season at TechRepublic, the time of year when finding and doing a better job becomes the primary obsession of a large chunk of the TR membership. We???ve kicked off the festivities by debating...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, career advancement
- Discussion threads 2005-10-03
- Fight back against the office suck-up
- Fight back against the office suck-upEvery office has at least one: That blatant suck-up using obvious tactics to try and get noticed and curry favor with the boss. What's worse, these jerks usually get away with it. A few of the TR staff are trying to come up with top...
- Tags: The Trivia Geek
- Discussion threads 2005-09-29
- Office politics major career obstacle
- Office politics major career obstacleI recently posted a question in which I asked what kind of career issues most plague IT pros. A good number of TechRepublic members said that tips on developing slick resumes and interview skills take a back seat to finding out how to deal with issues...
- Tags: career, Microsoft Office, office politics, PublishingGal
- Discussion threads 2005-04-04
- Office politics an issue at most organizations
- Office politics can be a serious concern for some organizations but never a problem for others. See what your peers had to say about the influence of office politics by checking out our recent Polling Place Quick Poll results on the subject.
- Tags: TechRepublic Staff, Office Politics, Microsoft Office
- Technical articles 2002-03-04
Additional Resources
- Sending Uncle Sam back to school
- Politics or technical content??Are we turning into a politics discussion forum for cnet articles now?Where have you been?If you follow many of the Miscellaneous threads, we often talk politics, sometimes religion, sometimes even *g@sp* s e x!!!If anything, this article is at least relevant to the IT industry, if not...
- Tags: lostpaddler
- Discussion threads 2005-08-22
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