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...patient," are at the root of the problems. In a country of 11 million people, nearly 850,000 workers are employed by the state--the country's biggest companies are state-run or -managed. They get generous perks, like 14 paychecks a year instead of 12. Many enjoy a workday that runs from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. "The state has an irrational control of the economy," says Yannis Stournaras, director of research for the Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research, a nonprofit, independent think tank. "We need nothing less than a revolution in the public sector...
...binding resolution is any bill that, by definition, cannot progress into law. These toothless acts have come to plague Congress. For example, a typical workday in Congress (Feb. 2, 2010, specifically) saw the consideration of such gems as H. Res. 957, which honored NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson for his “historic achievements” in winning the Sprint Cup, a resolution “recognizing the goals of Catholic Schools Week,” one declaring January 2010 (which ended two days earlier) to be “National Stalking Awareness Month,” and one congratulating...
...Barbara Fredrickson, author of Positivity and a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says it's crucial for people to pay attention to their workday emotions. "Doing so," she says, "will help you discover which aspects of your work are most life-giving - and most life-draining...
Step 2: Diagram Your Day To lay the groundwork for change, job-crafting participants assemble diagrams detailing their workday activities. The first objective is to develop new insights about what you actually do at work. Then you can dream up fresh ways to integrate what the job-crafting exercise calls your "strengths, motives and passions" into your daily routine. You convert task lists into flexible building blocks. The end result is an "after" diagram that can serve as a map for specific changes. (See "Out of Work in America...
Step 3: Identify Job Loves And Hates By reorienting how you think about your job, you free yourself up for new ideas about how to restructure your workday time and energy. Take an IT worker who hates dealing with technologically incompetent callers. He might enjoy teaching more than customer service. By spending more time instructing colleagues - and treating help-line callers as curious students of tech - the disgruntled IT person can make the most of his 9-to-5 position. (See TIME's special "Planning for Retirement...