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Office Gossip can be two faced!!! You agree??

The whole blah blah about trying to avoid office gossip is a tricky one. Having been a contractor or a consultant of some sort I guess I move in and out of projects and large Corporates. No matter how much you try one day or the other you get caught up with some kind of political gossip. It's strange but true for some reason people will talk to strangers about things they would not want their close friends and work mates to know. The back stabbing goes on in and out and avoiding this is utter stupidity. Continue

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[ More ] August 19th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Posted in Workplace Thoughts |

Learning to Work with Control Freaks

During one of my projects, I was introduced to a control freak - my definition a person who claims to be GOD. This post is for people working on projects that have to work along side control freaks or who self proclaim themselves as GOD. As a person I like things to be black or white and hate gray because you can never know when to draw the line. Anyways sometimes I guess life does not operate in this way. On this specific client project which was a dead project my role was to be the new Project Manager. The

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[ More ] August 17th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Posted in Workplace Thoughts |