Can't get enough! Book lovers at work programs have big stars such as Authors@Google even though it seems the program has not had any recent guest. What is more remarkable is that companies quietly doing their job day after day have found book programs to be a great way to broaden their staff views ...

Facing rocky times many businesses and individuals think they can survive only by cutting, cutting expenses, cutting corners, cutting headcount.All this cutting might kill the patient as in old times when doctors thought that the best way to cure the patient was to draw blood ('la saignee').A busine...

As I was browsing the Oxford Word of the Year 2008 List after hearing of Frugalista being one of the selections, I was surprised to see Topless Meeting share the spotlight. Nothing kinky here as Meetings going ‘topless’ by Jessica Guynn (LA Times, March 2008) tells us that it only relates to mee...

Work can become an obsession for many of us, either because we aim to deliver or are trying so hard to find meaning in our daily gring suggests Lucy Kellaway in Aim low to find meaning at work (FT, May 12).She comments on a recent report from the Work Foundation titled ‘Meaningful work’: what it...

I am not talking about the eternal complainer who never finds anything positive about her/ his work or company.In that case it might be time to move on. The news of Yahoo! being put in play by Microsoft got me thinking about Voices of Dissent at Work...You might remember how Brad Garlinghouse (a Yah...