If you can choose between talking to someone at work and writing an email to them, consider exercising your vocal chords instead, or in addition to, your fingertips. Obviously email is an important part of the workplace.  It is fast, efficient, traceable, and easy. It is also very impersonal.  And often it is not very [...]

You need to make sure that people outside your group know you, and have a generally favorable impression of you. Of course you have to do a good job within your department, on the work and task that you have been assigned by your manager.  But this is a mere condition of continued employment.  It [...]

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