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Q&A: What Marine training can teach workers about leadership

Tom Fox The Washington Post
Nov 12, 2017 6:15 am - Courtney Lynch is a lawyer, a leadership coach, a former Marine and one of three authors of the book, "SPARK: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success," that a...
What to do if you're a contract worker who's been stiffed

By Karla L. Miller
Nov 05, 2017 7:17 am - Q: I have been working as a contractor for a pet-sitting business. I have not been paid in full for a couple of jobs. Each time I followed up, I heard one excuse after a...
Apprenticeships are coming to white-collar office work

By Jena McGregor
Oct 22, 2017 7:19 am - Andrew Skelnik grew up in what he calls a "strong blue-collar background" in Chicago. His father was an electrician, his uncle was a carpenter and his first job out of h...
Survey: White men rule the business world but still feel left out at work

Danielle Paquette The Washington Post
Oct 22, 2017 7:18 am - More than a third of Americans in a new national survey said they think the heightened focus on diversity at work has overlooked white men, according to the consultancy ...
Essay: Working at Google seemed like a dream job. But the reality?

Grant Lindsley The Washington Post
Oct 21, 2017 7:17 am - The banner atop the Google Careers portal caught my eye back when I was one of 3 million hungry applicants: "Do Cool Things That Matter." It speaks at once of the tech i...
Survey: Sharp divide in how men, women view corporate efforts at gender equality

Jena McGregor The Washington Post
Oct 15, 2017 7:19 am - Corporate executives like to say gender diversity is one of their top priorities. They mount publicity campaigns, tout their equal pay measures, start up women's network...
Are biased workers entitled to protections?

By Karla L. Miller
Oct 01, 2017 7:16 am - In the early days of this column, I responded to a reader about socializing at an office party with a "bigot" of a co-worker who subjected others to "talk of collecting ...
5 types of jerks at work and how to cope with them

By Jena McGregor
Sep 24, 2017 7:22 am - Ten years ago, the typically sober and staid management book genre welcomed an off-color title to its shelves. Despite a name unable to be printed in a family newspaper,...
Wife wonders if spouse's job-hopping is smart

By Karla L. Miller
Sep 24, 2017 7:17 am - Q: My husband changed careers a few years ago to a niche retail industry. Six months after starting in an entry-level position, he was recruited to manage a startup in a...
Yes, you can be fired for missing work during a natural disaster

Danielle Paquette The Washington Post
Sep 17, 2017 7:15 am - Two days before Hurricane Irma was expected to hit South Florida, Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla., urged residents to flee inland as though their lives depended on it. "You need...

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