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The Active Go-Giver



Wouldn’t it be great if the more you gave, the more you got back in return? If that were true, imagine how it would transform your workplace, your career, and even your family life. All of a sudden there’d be an upsurge in people wanting to give, give, give, instead ...

The Go-Giver List



  Franke James, MFA  It's amazing what you can see when you start looking. I realized I know a lot of Go-Givers. And this is just MY list of Go-Givers. Who would you put on your Go-Giver list? The Go-Givers listed below are included because of something they've given me, done for me, ...

Ever wondered what coaching advice CEO’s receive that keep them going at full speed?



How do CEO's balance maximum effort at work with demands in their personal life? In this interview with co-author of EXECUTIVE STAMINA, Marty Seldman, we discover some of the coaching tools he uses with his clients (explained indepth in his new book). My favorites are 'shifts and drifts' and the ...

Vacation? Soaring Costs Keep Workers Home



BY JOHN A. CHALLENGER As gas prices exceed $4.00 a gallon and the unstable economy threatens job security, Americans may want to consider taking shorter vacations closer to home to save money and possibly save their jobs. The twice-a-year weeklong vacation, which has already supplanted the once-a-year two-week vacation as the staple ...

Soaring Gas Prices Force Employers To Respond



BY JOHN A. CHALLENGER As record gasoline prices make it more costly for the nation's workers to get to and from their jobs, a larger-than-expected number of companies have taken steps to help ease the financial burden on employees, including the expansion of telecommuting opportunities, public transportation subsidies and car pool ...

Dan Pink on the last career guide you’ll ever need



OfficePolitics.com Interview with best-selling author Dan Pink Franke James, OfficePolitics.com Editor, interviewed Dan Pink, author of The Adventures of Johnny Bunko. We also enlisted Johnny Bunko's kick-ass-career-counselor, Diana, to bestow her wisdom on an Office-Politics reader's dilemma. Read the letter here. Franke James, OP: 'The Adventures of Johnny Bunko' trashes the 'career ...

Resume Fraud Not Restricted To Lower Level



The revelation last year that Marilee Jones, the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, falsified her educational credentials nearly 30 years ago is a timely lesson for this year's crop of college graduates about to embark on their careers this spring: lies on resume may escape notice, ...