Top 10 mistakes that bosses make

Bosses come in many shapes and sizes, but according to a recent report their failings can be categorised into a number of key areas. Poor communication, unrealistic expectations, and reluctance to wield the axe are common weaknesses among our leaders.

Read the article by Kosmas Smyrnios on Australia's news.com here

IQ vs EQ

While employers continually battle with the challenge of better recruitment, an increasing number are coming to the conclusion that book smart (IQ) does not always equate to the best employee. The concept of EQ, emotional quotient, has gained ground in recent times, and refers to characteristics such as self-awareness, self-control and empathy. But can these attributes be measured?

Read Stephen Blakesley's article on Vistage here:

Banning e-breaks is bad for business

Are you banned from looking at Facebook or shopping on eBay at work? Is web surfing tolerated even less than a smoking break? Well, according to a new study, a few minutes wasting time online can be a valuable part of the working day, and can even increase concentration, morale and productivity.

Read the article in the Telegraph here.

(American readers, take note - fag breaks are not, you know... never mind, enough said)

HR director at 100 - and still going strong!

It is becoming more common to hear of people reaching the ripe old age of 100. Phyllis Self completed her century a few months ago, but she has no plans to take it easy just yet. She still works 6 days a week as HR director at Whitehall Garden Centre in Wiltshire.

Phyllis tells Personnel Today her secrets to staying in work for so many years.

Read Laura Chubb's article here:

docleaf Briefs

A Japanese man puzzled by food mysteriously disappearing from his refrigerator got a shock when he found out a woman had been living in his home for months without permission, police said Friday.

The 57-year-old man living alone -- or so he thought -- in the western city of Fukuoka installed a security camera and called the police when he saw images of someone walking around his home while he was out. "We searched the house in the man's presence. We found the woman in the closet," said a local police spokesman.

The woman, named as 58-year-old Tatsuko Horikawa, was found in a flat storage space only just big enough for a person to squeeze into lying down. She had sneaked a mattress and several plastic bottles into the cubby hole, police said, adding that the women had been arrested.

"She told police that she had nowhere to live," the spokesman said. "She seems to have lived there for about a year, but not all the time." It is unclear how she managed to enter the home undetected. Police suspect she might have been closet-hopping, moving from house to house. (AFP)

And finally.... Road workers in a small New Zealand town got their wish granted when a woman stripped saying she was fed up with their wolf-whistles.

The Israeli tourist was about to use an ATM in the main street of Kerikeri, in the far north of the country, when the men whistled, the New Zealand Press Association reported. She calmly stripped off, used the cash machine, before getting dressed and walking away.

The woman told police she didn't take too kindly to the whistling from the men repairing the road. "She said she had thought 'bugger them, I'll show them what I've got'," Police Sergeant Peter Masters told NZPA.

"She gave the explanation that she had been ... pestered by New Zealand men. She's not an unattractive looking lady," Masters said.