Avoid working
from home
Some of the best decisions and insights
come from hallway and cafeteria discussions,
meeting new people, and impromptu team
meetings. Speed and quality are often
sacrificed when we work from home.
Read more here: www.
fastcompany.com/3006244/
creative-conversations/realreasons-no-one-yahoo-willbe-working-home
Baby Boomers
taking more risk
A new report has found 41% of Gen X
employees (loosely defined between ages of
30-49 years) and 45% of Boomers (loosely
defined between ages of 50-69 years) consider
themselves to be more entrepreneurial
compared to only 32% of Gen Y (loosely
defined between ages of 18-29 years)
workers. And while younger workers tend to
be drawn to start-ups and smaller companies
in order to have more creative freedom
and decision making ability, the Monster
Millennial Branding research demonstrated
the concept of intrapreneurship is alive across
all generations of workers within many
companies today.
Source: Monster Worldwide
3 Reasons you should quit social media
in 2013
1. It harms your self-esteem
2. Your blood pressure will thank you
3. Online is no substitute for offline
Source: Forbes
More than words
Here's a list of words that have been under scrutiny as superfluous to the english language
1. Administrate: A back-formation of administration and an unnecessary extension of
administer.
2. Commentate: A back-formation of commentator and an unnecessary extension of
comment.
3. Dimunition: Erroneous; the correct form is diminution (think of diminutive).
4. Exploitive: A younger, acceptable variant of exploitative.
5. Firstly: As with secondly and thirdly, erroneous when enumerating points; use first and so on.
6. Heighth: Rarely appears in print, but a frequent error in spoken discourse (Why isn't
height modeled on the form of depth, length, and width? Because it doesn't shift in spelling
and pronunciation from its associated term, tall, like the others, which are derived from deep,
long, and wide, do. Neither do we say or write weighth).
7. Irregardless: An unnecessary extension of regardless on the analogy of irrespective but
ignoring that regardless, though it is not an antonym of regard, already has an antonymic affix
8. Miniscule: A common variant of minuscule, but widely considered erroneous.
9. Orientate: A back-formation of orientation and an unnecessary extension of orient.
10. Participator: Erroneous; the correct form is participant.
11. Preventative: A common and acceptable variant of preventive.
12. Societal: A variant of social with a distinct connotation (for example, "social occasion,"
but "societal trends").
13. Supposably: An erroneous variant of supposedly.
14. 'Til: Also rendered til and till, a clipped form of until that is correct but informal English;
use the full word except in colloquial usage.
15. Undoubtably: An erroneous variant of undoubtedly.
Source: DailyWritingTips.com
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