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Combating Harmful Habits

When you boil it down, your performance at work is the result of an accumulation of habits — both positive and negative. Unsurprisingly, bad habits are detrimental to your career. Here are some common ones you should avoid.

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If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. Now this task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge can change the world.

I'm optimistic that we can do this, but I talk to skeptics who claim there is no hope. They say: “Inequity has been with us since the beginning, and will be with us until the end — because people just don't care.” I completely disagree.

Seven Body Language Blunders at Work

In meetings, everyday office conversations or job interviews, you are always careful about what you say. Do you know what you are communicating to people with your body language, though? Researchers say up to 55 percent of communication is in how we move and gesture with our body, face and arms. Here are some common mistakes to avoid, so you don't give people an impression you didn't intend.

Stop Fidgeting!

Ikea: Fabulous Prefab

When a Swedish teenager established a small business in his village in 1943, few could have predicted that it would become the largest furniture retailer in the world. Almost 70 years later, however, Ikea is an international giant, and there is no end in sight to its expansion. The company's success is down to the unique and sometimes controversial business model established by Ingvar Kamprad, who founded the company all those years ago.

The fact is that Ikea supplies attractive furniture at dirt-cheap prices. This coupled with a strong brand identity has seen it weather economic downturns. The current CEO Mikael Ohlsson believes the thrift that has served Ikea so well is rooted in the company's origins in a relatively underdeveloped region of Sweden. Locals, says Ohlsson, are “stubborn, cost-conscious and ingenious at making a living with very little.”

A Business and a Pleasure

Making money is all well and good, but job satisfaction is equally important to many people. Getting paid for something you love doing is a dream for most of us, but for some fortunate folk, it's a day-to-day reality.

Need for Speed

Health at Your Fingertips 保健康彈指間

Headache 頭痛

Causes 成因