"Many people spend hours a week commuting into work. Some arrive to an office that is uninspiring or chaotic and wonder, "Why did I come in at all?" They spend all day answering emails and fiddling with computer systems, which they could easily do from home. Home Sweet Home Office is the guide to finding a job where you can ditch the commute and stuffy office environment and work remotely. Career expert Kerry Hannon walks you through getting a remote-access...

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice!
 
There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office...

Being organized and efficient doesn't come easily to everyone. For those who struggle to maintain an organized office space, whether at work or at home, Smart Office Organizing offers tips and tricks for reining in the chaos and creating a personalized system that works. Organizing experts Sandra Felton and Marsha Sims help readers

assess the mess

effectively utilize organizational tools

keep the desk under control

conquer the

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Many professionals aspire to work for a start-up. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to today's dynamic innovation economy. Yes, start-ups look magical, but they can also be chaotic and inaccessible. Many books are written for those who aspire to be founders, but a company only has one or two of those. What's needed are hundreds of employees to do the day-to-day work required to operate a fledgling company and grow...

"Part manual, part manifesto, Feminist Fight Club is a hilarious yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work, providing real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women"--

"In Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace, Mercer's North American Transformation Leader Melissa Swift delivers an eye-opening roadmap to better work that generates wins for companies and employees alike. In the book, you'll explore different ways to improve the growth-impeding, borderline inhumane people management practices we've created and endured over time. You'll also find: 50 strategies to create a powerhouse workplace...

Become a next generation leader---rich in emotional and social intelligence, and orchestrating outstanding collaborative results---by mastering these eight status quo-shattering paradoxes.

Work that permits autonomy and problem-solving can bolster employees' cognitive skills and learning over time. While both fluid cognitive abilities and crystallized knowledge typically plateau or begin to decline with age, the authors' research finds that well-designed work can counter that effect. The authors discuss how organizations and managers can use good work design to strengthen their workforce's ability to adapt to new processes, tools, and...

While some of us enjoy a lively debate with colleagues and others prefer to suppress our feelings over disagreements, we all struggle with conflict at work. Every day we navigate an office full of competing interests, clashing personalities, limited time and resources, and fragile egos. Sure, we share the same overarching goals as our colleagues, but we don't always agree on how to achieve them. We work differently. We rub each other the wrong way....

Using simple stories and techniques, this inspiring book shows that by using simplicity as an operating principle, we can eliminate the busy work that puts a chokehold on us every day, and instead spend time on the work that we value. --