Top 5 New Years Resolutions

Maybe you’re tired of your jeans cutting off circulation to your legs. Maybe you’ve felt guilty about sneaking an extra brownie from time to time. Maybe you feel this bank robbery thing has just gotten out of hand. Whatever your shortcomings, the beginning of a new year can be a great time to decide to be better. And you certainly won’t be alone. Studies show that Americans are more resolution-conscious than ever, with the practice of setting resolutions being far more prevalent than people who actually know the words to that New Years song.

Marketing Resources

Marketing can be done any number of ways. Depending on the nature of your business, you may want to focus on a variety of different marketing strategies. If your business is primarily an online-based company, you may want to invest in search engine marketing or search engine optimization. Other types of marketing include everything from [...]

Making the Right New Years Resolutions

“I’m going to stop eating sweets.” “I will lose weight.” “I will write a 2,000-page novel.” “I’m going to stop watch Jerry Springer.” Tis the season for resolutions.

Design Resources

When it comes to design, choosing the right design firm is essential. To a large extent, your design company will be responsible for your corporate image. They will help you develop everything from a logo and website, to stationery, brochures and business cards. Because of the responsibility and involvement in your company’s image development, it [...]

Office Party Blunders

Office holiday parties put you in an odd place where the normal rules governing socialization and appropriateness are skewed, if not thrown out altogether. Behavior is expected to be looser than your everyday office behavior. However, you are also expected to not go buck wild and behave like you are at some frat party. Even though you are out of the office, people are watching, status and reputation are on the line, and fit for upcoming promotions is being evaluated. You may ask, “What do my table manners have to do with my ability to manage projects?” Hey, I never said the practice was fair; I only said it happens. Just be grateful you know and pass the word on to your friends. If you have any office rivals that you would like to see bite the dust, conveniently neglect to pass on this advice to them.

Make Sure Christmas Vacation is a Vacation

Americans work more hours annually on average than any of their counterparts in other countries. It’s no wonder that, even when we’re given a holiday or a vacation to relax, we still manage to pack it with so many activities and errands that it hardly feels like a vacation at all.

Diversity and the Odd Man (or Woman) Out

When you are a minority, it’s not easy being hired by a diversity-focused company or attending a diversity-focused school. It is common to wonder if you were only hired for your race. It’s also common to wonder if your co-workers think you were hired for your skin color. Some folks, particularly those who feel disadvantaged by diversity initiatives, will even resent you for coming in the back door, so to speak. Needless to say, the shadow of diversity initiatives hangs over you.

Does Diversity Work?

Our director stood before the group to announce a new diversity initiative from corporate headquarters. “If two candidates possessed equal qualifications and experience and one was a white male and the other an underrepresented minority,” he said clumsily, “we would hire the minority.”

A gasp of shock went up from the group, which consisted of people of Ethiopian, Egyptian, Korean, Italian, Jewish, Danish, Hispanic, West Indian, Filipino, Irish, and German descent, male and female.