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How to make a good impression at your office party

  By Diane Sofranec | Managing Editor, Pest Management Professional Office parties offer a unique opportunity to make a good impression. If you look and act professional, your colleagues and managers will see you as an asset to the company. Too often, employees ruin their reputations at office parties. These tips will ensure your coworkers never discover you can’t hold your liquor, you like to dress like a tramp, or you think your boss is hot. Behave yourself. Conduct yourself...

Staff Book Review: Uncontainable

By Bill Roddy | Publisher, Landscape Management In 2014, Kip Tindell, chairman and CEO of The Container Store, published the book Uncontainable. It’s the story of how Tindell’s passion for organizing things and delighting customers helped build The Container Store from a single, 1,600-square-foot store in Dallas in 1978 into a thriving business of 75 locations throughout the U.S. today. This book is an extremely fast read, taking the reader through the company’s values-based foundation principles. The first few chapters...

Friday Favorites: LP Gas

Best of 2015, as picked by the editors The issue: LP Gas, August 2015 Selected by: Editor-in-Chief Brian Richesson Looking back on the past year and thinking about the work we did at LP Gas magazine, I’d have to pick August as my favorite issue. And that’s not just because we featured my waist on the cover, with a handgun holstered to my belt. It’s because we took a controversial topic suggested by a reader and turned it into a...

5 things to do at work before 2016

By Bethany Chambers | Digital Operations Manager It’s mid-December, and your workdays before the end of the year may be counted on one hand. With all the balls you’re juggling for the holidays, like the stings of lights that already burnt out and the hard-to-find gift for your pickiest loved one, something’s got to give. And that something is usually work productivity. It’s a common scenario in every workplace in America this time of year, and it’s at odds with...

The first cut is the deepest: A perspective on starting a journalism career

  By Grant B. Gannon | Associate Editor, Golfdom The end of November marked my first anniversary as a full-time journalist. I have been told by veteran reporters that I will not learn more than I did during that first year. To summarize all that I gained during this year into one blog post would be impossible. So I’ll stick to some of the highlights.   Finding a job My journey as a professional journalist didn’t start with my employment at North...

Friday Favorites: Golfdom

Best of 2015, as picked by the editors   The issue: Golfdom, September 2015 Selected by: Editor-in-chief Seth Jones This is a tough choice for me as well, there were a few issues that stood out to me… If I had to pick one issue though, the September issue my favorite of the year, partly for what it is, and partly for how it came about. First, how the cover story, “Friends in High Places,” came about: I needed new golf clubs....