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Not only will you get in on the out - of - office work - related talk that tends to form unofficial workplace dynamics, you'll also get the opportunity to learn about your colleagues on a personal level.

Not exact matches

There's nothing that brings people together quite like a common office enemy, while chatting about another colleague's misfortune could save you from an embarrassing gaffe (like asking about your assistant's wife, only to have him sob on your shoulder about the pending divorce).

On this week's episode of Balancing The Ledger, Fortune's new show covering the future of finance, my colleague Jen Wieczner and I chatted with David Pakman, a partner at the venture capital firm Venrock, about the hardline approach tech giants are taking against the nascent cryptocurrency industry.

Ours may need some tweaking, but for now at least, my colleagues and I have found plenty of positive things to comment on: work we're proud of, jokes about office nicknames and even a little cheerfulness about the weather («Not wearing a sweater for the first time in... I can't even remember,» one colleague posted).

My colleague Aaron Pressman, who has done hands down the best coverage on this topic, has written here about how the Trump administration's obsession with China is driving Legere's latest urge to merge.

My colleague, Kirsten, had to sign an NDA promising she wouldn't reveal anything about Smith's character ahead of the film release in order to receive a making - of book on the film.

The team at Bluebeam doesn't decorate every time a colleague is on vacation, but about once a month, someone comes back to a surprise.

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People are also less likely to gossip about colleagues they respect, so be helpful, friendly and share the glory on successful projects.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

My advice to you is to approach your boss and say that you hadn't realized that he would be bringing your colleague in on your work plan and ask for his guidance about how you should view her role.

Virtual office communications rely mainly on emails and phone calls, and the lack of face time with bosses and colleagues also means that there is a lack of daily feedback about performance.

Avoid Generic Requests One of the biggest mistakes you can make on LinkedIn is to send a request to connect with a former colleague or business partner but without thinking about personalization.

Today's workers are pretty entitled when it comes to Olympics - watching during the workday: More than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them to take work time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues to spend half an hour of the workday watching, listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead of their jobs.

Or your PC can fetch files relating to that approaching customer or colleague and prompt you with zingers like, «Oh hi, boss, just noticing that sales are up 14 percent so far this month over last year at this time,» or «Gee, Mr. Freedman, you must have heard about the special we're having on the Monster Lawn 6000 tractor for Teeny Lawn 300 owners.»

I've had a few iPhone - toting colleagues and friends who were curious about the Pixel 2's camera, which is widely reported as one of the best cameras on a smartphone.

About 700 members of the restaurant and catering industry packed the Burswood Grand Ballroom to congratulate colleagues on their achievements.

Fifty - five years after the Equal Pay Act passed, women earn about $ 0.80 on the dollar to their male colleagues.

Translation: This may be the colleague who complains about pitching in on extra work, finishes the pot of coffee without making more, and sets up a print job to run 1,000 copies the morning she knows another teammate is pushing up against a deadline.

The biggest reason is blockchain technology — the underlying technology that makes Bitcoin work — about which Forde recently spoke to my colleague Will Yakowicz on the Inc Uncensored Podcast.

As my colleague Dan Primack has pointed out, the Sunday broadcast involved a game that hardly anyone probably cares about outside the local markets of the two teams — where the game was available on television as usual — and the viewership numbers Yahoo has reported are likely inflated.

The piece focuses specifically on informal negotiations at work — those common but less written about moments when it's up to you to secure the credit or influence you deserve, or to get what you want from a reluctant supervisor or colleague.

NBC News» chairman, Andy Lack, issued a statement saying that on Monday he «received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer.»

During the day, I am often moving between meetings, about 50 percent with City government colleagues and partners working on City tech projects, and 50 percent with startups, organizations, and individuals in the tech community.

And even if you don't see a single tree on your jaunt out of the office, getting away from the need to think about work, keep up appearances, and make small talk with colleagues will make your break hugely more refreshing, Jarrett reports.

My colleague Laura Entis spoke with Andrew Freeman, the director of cardiovascular prevention and wellness at National Jewish Health in Denver, about which health fads are actually effective in heart health — not based on marketing, branding, or hype, but actual science.

Workers use it to gripe about their colleagues, buddy up with the boss or ask questions they could probably have answered on their own.

On the site, you will also find information about Moody's community events, profiles of former colleagues, alumni spotlights and updates, as well as Moody's news, information and job postings.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

To conclude, I hope these remarks about financial stability also reflect on what our legal colleagues have accomplished at the ECB.

When asked to provide statistics about how many patients received methadone in hospitals during the disaster, neither Smith nor the two other SAMHSA colleagues on the phone could do so.

-- With the spotlight on him, the president's son - in - law has become «paranoid,» CNN reports: «Kushner also feels that he has come under fire from his own West Wing colleagues recently, with the notion that «everyone is out to get him,» a source said... Kushner... told people that he suspected the timing of the story about his foreign contacts was coordinated to be released when issues surrounding his security clearance were in the news, according to a source familiar with his thinking.»

When Steve Parsons and his colleagues published their first report on the gold «production cliff» in early 2013, they thought the thesis was obvious, even though almost no one was talking about it.

Watson seemed particularly rankled by the Justice Department's plea for him to rule specifically on the language of the travel ban itself and not make his decision based on some of President Trump and his colleagues» language about the ban — language which made it clear the ban violates the spirit of the Constitution.

He was excited when he arrived on campus because, after years of working in other environments, he thought that he was finally about to learn, from his colleagues on the faculty, how one could teach science in a way that was integrated fully with the faith.

His colleague George Lindbeck added an insistence on the primacy of language over experience and a theory about religion as a cultural - symbolic medium.

At about 10:45 a.m. on Friday, May 5, 1989, Richard and his colleagues found themselves standing in the rain on Madison Avenue, clutching plastic garbage bags with their personal effects, plus, sub rosa, the company Rolodex.

A variation on the conventional wisdom appeals to the anxieties of students about their career prospects: «You need to get to know the people who will be your colleagues in the ministry for the rest of your life.»

Konrad Raiser, now General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, uses it to describe, a change in theological perspective which affects the whole range of ecumenical work.1 His colleague and former student Martin Robra applies it specifically to a change in perspective on social ethics in World Council work.2 K.C. Abraham describes it as a change in theological and ethical perspective brought about by the participation of the Third World in the ecumenical movement.3 They all make important points.

«Several of our organizations operate or support ministries in Central America, and our colleagues there are deeply concerned about the impact of a withdrawal of TPS on the country as a whole, which is facing serious challenges of violence and poverty.»

I suppose what I am saying as a man, is that I might not be aware of it as much as my female colleagues, so I am relying to some extent on women to give me an indication of what is mysogeny or (for want of a better word) women being bitchy about men and what is the appropriate way to engage in any given situation.

But recently, my colleague Dianne Jacob of Will Write for Food blog spoke about the relevancy of food, considering what else is going on in our world.

MFM will be partnering with edie for the two - day event, providing more than 600 attendees with new ideas about how to make their own companies more environmentally friendly — not least by encouraging employees and colleagues to cut down on the amount of meat they eat; making a small change to their diets in order to effect a big change in the way we live.

As a kid, I fantasized about brushing the dust off a little chip of pottery and turning to my colleagues, a look of sophisticated pleasure on face as I informed them that I'd found the last remaining piece of the oldest pot in the history of the world.

Vehement denials from Team Tiger about Woods» well - being came first, followed by Tiger's Zelig - like appearances that began when he posed, upright and smiling, for snaps with tour colleagues at his The Woods Jupiter restaurant on Monday night.

@L A Gooner, do nt you think it's possible that the players talk to one another about where THEY believe perceive recognise discern or understand what direction the club is heading in based on what they or their more experienced past or present colleagues have experienced in the past 5 or 6 seasons.

At the time, I was just uncomfortable with her talking about my nipple activities in front of professional colleagues, but she also made the assumption that I was planning on nursing.

Keeping her focus on customer service - oriented education sessions, Mari soaked up as much experience as she could, connecting with colleagues from around the country to learn about their challenges and successes along the way.

For their report, Hauck and her colleagues looked at data from a large infant feeding study and they focused on about 1,800 mothers who were breastfeeding when their baby was two weeks old.

That's something we're only beginning to understandi In a lovely short essay at Edge.org, psychology professor Linda Wilbrecht, a colleague at the University of California, Berkeley, highlights what we do — and don't — yet know about the impacts of early life experiences on later development.