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Does Chicago have the fortitude to keep its cars in the garage? I think so. The last time I was there, literally hundreds of nearly life-size fiber-glass cows, each decorated by a different artist, were displayed on the sidewalks of Michigan Boulevard. Given the traditional cattle sensitivity of Midwestern boosters afraid of having their cities dismissed as cow towns, I told my hosts that a city in Illinois that festoons its most elegant shopping area with bovine creatures is not lacking in the self-confidence department...
WANTED: REALLY COOL PEOPLE. There's more to life than a job. Experience the difference between loving work and living work, where your sense of humor and family life are truly valued as much as your abilities...
...whole country. Small businesses (those with fewer than 500 employees) make up roughly 90% of all U.S. businesses and employ 55 million Americans. According to the Bureau of the Census, 99.9% of enterprises that are born and buried each year are small firms. And the challenges to a long life expectancy are growing. While the gross domestic product of the U.S. was up 3.8% in 1997, the U.S. Small Business Administration reports that business failures increased 15.9% that year, to 83,384--the highest level since...
...authors discuss every aspect of working life, from what to wear on job interviews (piercings are a faux pas, as are open-toe shoes) to how to deal with berserk telephone calls ("Let the angry caller rant for a minute or two") to how to fire an employee ("Get straight to the point when the person sits down in your office"). The Posts even offer guidelines for office gossip, which the authors believe is inevitable ("You could wind up covered in mud if you dish dirt about the wrong person"). The Posts also deal with private problems, like what...
...ever o.k. to fax a thank-you note? Is it kosher to read someone else's fax as it comes off the machine? Is it rude to use a speakerphone? With all the new gadgetry and the nearly universal advent of dress-down Fridays, office life at the end of the century was supposed to get simpler, wasn't it? But in the era of digital wizardry and globalization, rules of business behavior have become more important to us than ever. A spate of new books tackle the problem of gentility in the workplace from a number of angles...