Entries Tagged as ‘Office politics’

July 3, 2008

He’s my employee (and spouse)

Would you hire your husband to work at a company you founded? It’s an interesting question, one delved into by the NY Times in a recently published article. With women currently owning (privately) approximately 7.7 million businesses in the US (an increase of 42.3% from 1998), one has to wonder where and if a husband [...]

May 2, 2008

Sometimes, it’s hard to know who’s in charge

So, I’ve worked both as a freelance writer as well as in-house for large and small companies. I’ve had different kinds of managers — most of whom I’ve been lucky enough to have gotten along pretty well with. There have been those occasional times however, when I had to work for someone whom I knew [...]