And we're actually having a really
good time at work.
While it's important to have
a good time at work, fun has to be combined with an atmosphere of trust, caring and support.
I think about all the things we did together, everything we did in school,
the good times at work, the emergencies, the sitting around after work.
Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day: The guys over at Grasshopper Manufacture, AKA Suda 51, must have
the best time at work, and it shows with this very bizarre title Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day which is based on a Japanese anime of ridiculous proportions.
Not exact matches
I know what you're thinking: If interleaving
works better, why do we tend to practice one skill
at a
time?
In the past month or so I've found myself complaining a lot about this because my drive
time takes away from my
work productivity, puts me in the office later, and fills me with intense anger directed
at,
well, everybody and nobody.Driving accomplishes nothing except getting me to the office.
Introverts are naturally
good at structuring their own
time and don't get stir crazy
working at home.
At the same time, subordinates were completing surveys at the end of each workday about any abusive behaviour displayed by their leader that day, as well as their own level of work engagemen
At the same
time, subordinates were completing surveys
at the end of each workday about any abusive behaviour displayed by their leader that day, as well as their own level of work engagemen
at the end of each workday about any abusive behaviour displayed by their leader that day, as
well as their own level of
work engagement.
The key is to
work smarter, and by focusing on mindfulness
at work, you can
better utilize your full mental capacities, to do more in less
time and feel
better overall.
That decision was certainly the right one for me and my opportunities in business
at the
time and, looking back now, I would have to say it
worked out pretty
well for us and also the driver that wound up getting that rookie test.
Constantly
working in a global context, it was important from quite early on to learn to
work with the more challenging elements of different cultures, while
at the same
time identifying their
best factors and making them my own.
And they rarely have employees assigning scores as low as,
well, 2 — while also predicting that, in six months
time, they expect to be even less satisfied
at work.
At a
time when about one in five young Canadians are underemployed or
working in precarious part -
time jobs, it's easy to think that the more education you have, the
better.
If one member of the household makes a
good enough living, a cost - benefit analysis will often conclude that it makes economic sense for the second earner to stay
at home or
work part -
time.
The most successful ones
work on more than a dozen initiatives
at any one
time — including creating
better quality content, improving conversion rates and overall content effectiveness, creating more visual content, reimagining or repurposing content, measuring ROI and becoming
better storytellers.
Instead of changing the plan, consider a tactic that's
worked well for the advertising sales force
at the New York
Times.
SmartAsset looked
at the median earnings for full -
time working women, as
well as the number of women with high - level degrees and those who own businesses.
Why should trying to sell a home
at the top and buying it back
at the bottom
work out any
better than the dismal record of those who have tried
timing the stock market?
The host refused to go to
work starting last Wednesday after being blindsided by the news that her cohost Michael Strahan would be leaving the daytime show for a full -
time job
at «
Good Morning America.»
But here's the key: If you're in a conversation
at a
work - related function or meeting someone to talk business for the first
time, your
best move is not to ask
work - or business - related questions; it's to discover common ties with that person that will steer the conversation back to the «
work stuff,» but with a deeper connection.
The holiday season is prime
time at many small businesses, and they may not have enough staff to accommodate the extra
work as
well as the
time off many employees want.
The move was part of an effort to improve customer service and keep
good workers in a tightening job market
at a
time when
working in stores is getting more involved.
The technical feasibility of automation is
best analyzed by looking not
at occupations as a whole, but
at the amount of
time spent on individual activities, and the degree to which these could be automated by using technology that currently exists and adapting it to individual
work activities.
Now, a new NBER
working paper expands on this
well - established fact, not just confirming that Americans put in more
time at work, but also showing exactly when they're racking up those hours.
Kenna became increasingly frustrated with the politics of signing with music labels, and
at the same
time, he also became aware that his father was
working to save $ 10,000 to build a clean water
well in his home village in Ethiopia.
Partly they criticize you because it's a way of letting off steam, but mostly they do it because we all think,
at least some of the
time, that we can do a
better job than the person we
work for.
Creating enough
time for sleep means you'll be
better at what you're
working on.
In fact, brainstorming
works best when everyone comes together to share their ideas after they've had
time to
work independently, since groups tend to be
better at shaping and building upon ideas.
Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre
at best), small -
time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and
worked in the state for awhile.
A
good manager knows how to empathize with his / her people by celebrating their successes, understanding the tough
times they are going through whether
at work or home, and always challenging them to reach their full potential, no matter what happens.
Unfortunately for HP, things didn't
work out
well on the IT services front and the company is struggling under the load
at a
time when large outsourcing deals are shrinking.
For instance, if your goal is
better time management, commit to
working on a project for just 10 minutes a day
at first.
Besides what experts call
good «sleep hygiene» -; not drinking caffeine
at night, turning off the TV before bed, sticking to a sleep schedule -; the key may be rethinking your schedule to
work shorter, smarter hours and actually leave the office closer to on
time (after all, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg manages it).
At the same
time, being outspoken about your company's social causes or charity
work, as examples, can not only bolster your public image overall but help your company get and keep the
best employees.
This means it is
time to take a
good hard look
at your painful clients and
work out which ones are toxic to your business and your team.
Doing this will not only help us feel like our
time at work is
time well spent, but also reduce the amount of junk that gets made in the process.
Other solutions include getting enough — but not too much — sleep, as
well as spending just enough
time with family,
at work and exercising.
«How wonderful would it be if solidarity, this beautiful and,
at times, inconvenient word, were not simply reduced to social
work, and became, instead, the default attitude in political, economic and scientific choices, as
well as in the relationships among individuals, peoples and countries.
«This is the period
at which wage rates typically peak and is the
best time to
work and earn the most, even
at the expense of present
well - being, so as to have increased wealth and
well - being later in life,» he says.
What's the
best time to drink coffee
at work?
I've done that off and on for 20 years,
working for various dealerships, and there were
times I made a pretty
good living
at it.
It's not a bad idea to start taking a look
at what open - source software you're already using and spending some
time getting a
better understanding of how it
works — in the case of Becker's example of AngularJS, you can dive deeper with resources like the AngularJS Google Group, AngularJS questions
at Stack Overflow and W3Schools» AngularJS Tutorial.
We had so much
work to do on Mr. Skin.com that the thought of another site was overwhelming... but
at the same
time I realized we have the
best group of employees we've ever had, and we realized we had an opportunity: Who has
better infrastructure,
better knowledge,
better everything than we do?
The rule applies to retirement accounts, and it states that when
working with investors, «The Financial Institution and the Adviser (s)[must] provide investment advice that is,
at the
time of the recommendation, in the
Best Interest of the Retirement Investor.»
If I can't get
at least three hours of sleep, my
time is
better spent powering up with a meal and
working through the night.
You're far
better off
working from home
at least some of the
time, and allowing employees to do so, too.
Malcolm Gladwell may or may not have been completely right when he claimed that becoming a true expert in any subject requires 10,000 hours of practice, but whether his exact number stands up to scrutiny, the underlying truth still holds — getting
good at things is
time - consuming and involves a lot of hard
work.
Your life would be so much
better in that you could
work less and get more done all
at the same
time.
(1) It's critical to learn to be fast first - then you can take the
time and have the luxury to
work on being the
best at what you do.
«I'm here
at eMerge because I can relate with entrepreneurs, businessmen, especially being in the music business, because every
time we come up with an idea or a new record, people are constantly telling us how it's not going to
work, it's not as
good as what you had before,» Pitbull said Tuesday on CNBC's «Power Lunch.»