The tide has turned. Moms are taking on and in some cases, taking over the business world. Not only are employers turning to a readily available mass of at-home workers, they are finding these workers to be smart, creative, innovative, technologically adept, and yes, college educated, they are finding these employees and contractors in the one place no one ever believed they would - at the kitchen table, baby bouncing on her knee, hair up on top of her head, ...

Almost everyone I know who currently hates his or her job had a premonition that things wouldn’t go smoothly when they first signed on to the company. Why did they take the job, then? In most cases, the answer was money, plain and simple. And if you’ve been out of work for a prolonged time and can’t afford to look for the really, really right place, then taking a job to bring money into the house just makes sense. In ...

Have you noticed the lack of eye-contact from a clerk while being served in a retail establishment? Have you noticed some of the people you work with who are reluctant to be forthright with customers and clients either on the phone or in-person? Have you noticed a propensity in your own workplace of people who don’t seem to speak up when it comes time to address an issue that needs to be talked about? It’s happening more and more in ...

Start Out Right Congratulations - you got the job. Uh ... now what? These days, employers expect new employees to “hit the ground running,” especially new management and executive employees. With your enthusiasm for taking on this new challenge, it’s tempting to bounce into work and start making suggestions, planning projects, shaking things up, creating change. You may even think this is what you were hired to do. After all, in the interview they asked questions ...