Get away from it all. Hit the hiking trail. Take a road trip. Go ice fishing. Vacation is our annual, bi-annual, monthly reset switch. When the stress of work and home drowns us in laundry, paperwork, bills, lawncare, and myriad other responsibilities, we treat ourselves to a holiday abroad or some fresh air at ourRead more

Your office is a professional work environment. You can’t treat it like your home, a locker room, or the local tavern. But all of us have bad office habits – some of us are just worse at noticing them. Here are the worst offenders to watch out for. Or it may take a Groundhog DayRead more

Let’s be honest, no matter how organized we are the work tends to pile up. There’s nothing worse than everything catching up with you and even worse – a forgotten assignment. Putting off workplace cleaning can also have negative impacts on both your health and work performance, because  it’s hard to do a good jobRead more

Hollywood is run by businessmen. They know how a successful office should run, and it’s doubtful many of their movies would get made if they ran their workplace as inefficiently as those in some of their films. Some of the big screen’s most notorious offices have taught us the worst ways to manage a groupRead more

There’s nothing quite like a good old-fashioned phone call, is there? Get on the horn, ring up a client, and shoot the breeze. Whatever happened to that personal touch? Well, we sometimes forget that before the telephone, meetings had to be conducted in-person after spending a small fortune on transportation. All other business was doneRead more

Autumn is such a bizarre season, painted with gray clouds and colorful copses. Punctuated by feasts, elections, Halloween, and winter prep. It is a time of transformation. Sometimes, it is a time of shedding old habits and shifting priorities. The leaves may be turning red, orange, and yellow, but there’s no reason your office can’tRead more

Have you ever seen Mutiny on the Bounty? It’s a movie from the ‘30s about a British naval vessel under the command of a ruthless captain. He keeps cutting corners that put the crew in danger, making his subordinates walk the plank, and just being an overall bad dude. The morale on the Bounty isRead more

December has crept up on us again, and you’re wondering where the time has gone. Pretty soon, it will be a new year. For everyone, that means another round of birthdays, holidays, and vacations. It also means a new quarter, a new year of business to close, and a chance to improve upon 2017’s salesRead more

These days, every office has at least one person with a dietary restriction. And the one time a year when this becomes a hot topic is Thanksgiving. Traditionally, the table is set with the same dishes every year. But what do you do when a coworker is vegan? What if your boss is on aRead more

We often have a general idea of how to do “friendsgiving,” because well, our friends are our “chosen” family. As for the actual Thanksgiving, which usually involves several degrees of family members? It can be fraught — and in this year more than any for Americans, where political divisiveness seems the norm, some conversations mightRead more