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Flirt Your Way To The Top?

Tuesday September 7, 2010
Interesting article in recent edition of Forbes Magazine, Flirting Your Way To The Corner Office. Is flirting at the office just "another tool in the bag" that you use like networking to advance your career or is it a risky strategy that is unprofessional, anti-feminist, and risky? Take our poll below.

More on the topic: Office Romance Rules

Labor Day? How About Management Day Too?

Monday September 6, 2010
Today the US celebrates Labor Day in honor of all the working people. Although started by a labor union, today the holiday encompasses all workers, including managers.

Still, management-bashing seems to be in vogue these days. Take a look at my Top 10 ways to tell If You Are Management Material and then try the Who Wants to Be a Manager? quiz.

Planning A Company Meeting

Friday September 3, 2010
Congratulations. Your company will be holding a meeting for a group of the employees. The CEO has made you the Project Manager for the event. Now what?

If you know what to do, you'd better get started because there is a lot of work to be done. If you're not sure what to do, read Planning a Project, Planning A Company Meeting. This sample plan, one of a series, shows how such a proejct might be planned out.

If a woman can make a baby in 9 months...

Tuesday August 31, 2010
If a woman can make a baby in 9 months, can 9 women make a baby in 1 month?

This expression is often used in project management to explain why the critical path can't be compressed. The argument is that some things just take a certain length of time to do.

The counter argument is that with proper planning and pre-positioning of assets it is possible. If a machine makes a widget in nine months, nine machines will make nine widgets in nine months, the equivalent of 1 per month.

What do you think? Vote in our poll!

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