The Boss: Hyune Hand of Hoover’s: No Road Map Needed

I WAS born in South Korea. When I was 2, my family, including my grandparents, emigrated to Brazil for a better life. My father saw more opportunity there. Multimedia My father was an elder at our Korean church, and he rallied members to start a Korean preschool, which I attended for ... Continue Reading

How To Moonlight as a Male Escort

There is a great demand for male escorts. Women contract them for varied social reasons—parties, gatherings, and even as company in a quiet evening. Experts observe that if you are good in what you are doing, you could get repeat bookings from valuable clients. Indeed, being a male escort could ... Continue Reading

Is it OK to ask for a pay rise this year?

Will workers see more pounds in their pockets this year? Photograph: Maria Toutoudaki/Getty Images Last year, when the world appeared to be on a precipice, buttonholing the boss for a rise seemed irrelevant. More important was avoiding redundancy. Now the economy has stabilised, and bonuses are clearly back, have pay ... Continue Reading

The Boss: No Road Map Necessary

I WAS born in South Korea. When I was 2, my family, including my grandparents, emigrated to Brazil for a better life. My father saw more opportunity there. Multimedia My father was an elder at our Korean church, and he rallied members to start a Korean preschool, which I attended for ... Continue Reading

The Boss: A Family’s Vision

MY father’s father, Bartolomé Poma, was born in Barcelona and worked as a specialized car mechanic in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. RICARDO POMA Chief executive, Grupo Poma, San Salvador AGE 63 FAVORITE POET Rubén Dario RECENTLY READ ‘The Millennium Trilogy’ by Stieg Larsson By 1918, he’d moved to El Salvador ... Continue Reading

Bully for you: Intimidation at work

Bullying happens in many places, put is often hard to define in the workplace. Illustration: Simon Pemberton The allegations levelled against Gordon Brown this week are a timely reminder that bullying is not ­simply the domain of the playground. Workplace bullying is on the rise, a by-product of the added pressure ... Continue Reading

The Boss: Educator to the World

I ATTENDED a one-room schoolhouse in rural Minnesota in the 1950s. My grandparents, who were German immigrants, had no formal schooling, and my father had only an eighth-grade education. Education was the path up for my brother, sister and me. My father excused me from the dairy chores on ... Continue Reading

Should I tell the boss that his daughter is a useless trainee?

What do you do if your boss’s daughter is a useless trainee? Photograph: Photoconcepts/Corbis Work ethics is a fortnightly feature in Guardian Workwhere a reader submits a workplace dilemma and asks for your help. A selection of the best … Read the original article at Guardian

If you only do one thing this week … tell your bosses what you think of them

Bottling up frustration at your boss is not advisable. Photograph: Teri Pengilley/Teri Pengilley Whether it’s a failure to communicate useful information or a tendency for slip-ups that make you and your colleagues look bad, the chances are you could tell your boss a thing or two about the way he or ... Continue Reading

Corner Office: He’s Not Bill Gates, or Fred Astaire

This interview with Vineet Nayar, chief executive HCL Technologies, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Dan Neville/The New York Times Vineet Nayar is the chief executive of HCL Technologies, an I.T. services company based in India. To help bridge the gap between C.E.O. and the rank and file, he once danced ... Continue Reading

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