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    • Holiday Travelers: 6 Tips to Bypass the Delays

      By BNET | Work + Money – Tue, Dec 21, 2010 2:24 AM EST

      By Peter Greenberg

      I love the term "flight irregularity." Airlines use it as a euphemism for mechanical delays, missing crew members, fuel problems, and yes, even weather. And as euphemisms go, it isn't a winner-it sounds like the airline is constipated. (And yes, I've been on flights that qualified for that same diagnosis.)

      But "flight irregularity" is guaranteed to cause you a headache. Unless you have a plan G. Plan G? Of course, because plan A didn't work, and B through F are also hopeless.

      In order to fly from point A to point B these days, you have to be your own air traffic controller and - beware metaphor collision! - realize that you're now playing a real-world game of aviation chess. You can't move one piece without anticipating your - and your opponent's - next five moves.

      Impossible? Hardly. Because airlines are actually predictable in their behavior.

      If a flight is delayed, it's not just the plane, but the time limits of the crew. Did the plane you're

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    • How Women Can Negotiate for More Money

      By BNET | Work + Money – Tue, Dec 14, 2010 11:18 PM EST

      by Joanne Cleaver

      I'd like to make more money. Wouldn't you?

      Dumb question, I know.

      It's not that women don't deserve to to make more. They do.

      It's not that women don't ask for raises. While many hesitate, they do ask.

      But many women feel uncomfortable. It feels unseemly, even selfish to ask for a pay bump or increase in rates. And, some women fear they may alienate their boss or clients in the process of negotiating for more.

      This queasiness is not just an individual problem. It's part of a cultural construct, according to Hannah Riley Bowles, an associate professor in management and decision making at the Harvard Kennedy School. In a not-yet-published study, Bowles asked people what they thought of the efforts of "employees" trying to win raises. When the employees were men, the people supported the workers' rationales for more pay. But if the employees were women? Not only were the respondents less inclined to grant the women workers what they asked for,

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    • 12 Ways to Turn Around a Terrible Day

      By BNET | Work + Money – Tue, Dec 14, 2010 10:39 PM EST

      by Jessica Stillman

      We all have lousy days. You know the kind I mean - problem clients, cranky co-workers, bad evaluations or personal life stress collide and make for a really epic bad mood (and for some reason it always seems to be raining). So what can you do when the universe seems to conspire to make your life unpleasant? Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project, comes to the rescue with tips, and not just two or three. On her blog she offers a whopping 12 ways to deal with a terrible day (which is good, sometimes you need all the help you can get.)

      • Resist the urge to "treat" yourself. Often, the things we choose as "treats" aren't good for us. The pleasure lasts a minute, but then feelings of guilt, loss of control, and other negative consequences just deepen the lousiness of the day.
      • Do something nice for someone else. "Do good, feel good" - this really works. Be selfless, if only for selfish reasons.
      • Distract yourself. When my older daughter was
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