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Friday Distractions and Readings for the Weekend

June 19th, 2009 @ 12:46 pm

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Categories: BNET, Workplace

Tags: Financial, Board, Entertainment, Corporate Governance, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing

It’s Friday.  Although physically, you are still in the office, your mind may have already checked out for the weekend.

Here are a few lighter workplace reads to get you to the closing bell.

  • You’ve spent all week together and now you want to see a colleague over the weekend too?  If you’ve found yourself in an office romance, here are a few tips to keep the romance and your jobs.  [Management-Issues]
  • Need to prove you are more than a working stiff?  Here are the ten cocktails every summer host should know. [Houston Chronicle]
  • Enjoy a satirical video series that dares to ask: What if God were a CEO? [BNET's Sales Machine]
  • Blame Monopoly and its bank that can’t go bust!  Did the board games we played as kids teach us bad financial lessons?  [The Big Money]
  • Brace yourself.  Michael Moore’s next documentary target: “The Wealthy” [Newsweek
  • If you have an employee that will have the same energy level on Monday as s/he has today, you need to check out these tips for motivating slackers. [BNET 's Leila's House of Corrections]
  • Why are gossip rags one of the only bright spots for the print-news industry?  America’s appetite for entertainment news may have been underserved. [The Economist]
  • Is it fair that Father’s Day gets no respect? [The Boston Channel]

Enjoy your weekend.

Stefan Deeran consults environmental advocacy groups and businesses on their sustainability strategies and communications plans. He also publishes the online newsmagazine the Exception.
 

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