Business Columns
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When will it be fathers' day in the office?Jun 19, 2016 7:17 am - Pop quiz: Who struggles most with work-family conflict? Your first answer might be "working mothers." But according to work-life author Brigid Schulte, surveys show work...
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Who gets the workplace in the divorce?Jun 19, 2016 7:05 am - Q: My fiancee has worked at a multinational company for nearly a decade. Her ex-husband previously worked at the same company but left a year before their divorce severa...
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Career Coach: Staying calm under pressure tells a lot about a leaderJun 19, 2016 7:05 am - "Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." Publilius Syrus Recently, a colleague reminded me of a fundamental lesson when selecting and evaluating leaders. He poin...
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Tuned-in leadership helps chambers hold their ownJun 19, 2016 1:00 am - The chamber of commerce? Yep. Really? Yep again. Still around? Not only still around but in many cases developing programs that are reaching out to - gasp! - the Mi...
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Seven 'slow ideas' in personal financeJun 19, 2016 1:00 am - Ideas are odd things. Some spread like wildfire, instantly transforming our lives. Others are slow, taking decades to be recognized as basic truths. Here are seven "slow...
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From laundry to engineering, Lake Forest hospital's Niskanen rubs elbows with the bestJun 19, 2016 1:00 am - Dan Niskanen worked his way of up from the laundry department to systems engineer, spending about 50 years at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital. The Gurnee resi...
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Motorcycle auction shows diversity exists in the two-wheeled worldJun 15, 2016 11:00 pm - Hear the words “motorcycle auction” and you may conjure up images of big, burly, two-wheeled brutes rumbling down the block. Many such machines could be found at last we...
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Career coach: Drawing the (neck)lineJun 12, 2016 7:10 am - Q: Here's a twist on sexism in the workplace. Why is it OK for women in a professional environment to wear low-cut tops that reveal an inch or more of the line between t...
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Who's the 'Right Who' to take over your business?Jun 12, 2016 1:00 am - For the next few paragraphs, let's assume you own the business - lock, stock and barrel, the whole kit and caboodle. That makes you eligible to answer a question not tha...
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Long life expectancy? Defer Social Security benefitsJun 12, 2016 1:00 am - Q: One of your recent columns was very interesting to me. It was from a 61-year-old woman with a 74-year-old husband. I am 62 and my husband is 78, so there are similari...