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Sometimes, it pays for the boss to be humble

By Guest PostDecember 9, 2017Economy, Jobsberrin erdogan, BOSS, humble, jia jasmine hu, kaifeng jiang, talya baue, united states, workplaces in china

Study finds employee expectations are key

COLUMBUS, Ohio – It’s good to be humble when you’re the boss – as long as that’s what your employees expect. (more…)

Hey boss: Workers prefer ‘consistent jerk’ to loose cannon

By Guest PostMay 14, 2016Economy, JobsBOSS, brent scott, consistent jerk, fadel matta, indicator of stress, prefer, workers

Is your boss always a jerk? You still may be better off than those workers whose supervisor is courteous one moment and rude the next. (more…)

Seven steps to selling your idea to the boss

By Guest PostJanuary 26, 2015Economy, Technologyaudience, BOSS, europaeische wertestudie, european values study, fishy business, glaube an gott, harvard, jobs, knowledge, religiositaet in oesterreich

ANN ARBOR — Middle managers often know best when certain practices or products are ripe for change in an organization, but can struggle selling their ideas up the chain of command.

Sue Ashford, professor of management and organizations at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, details smart steps managers can take to get their ideas considered and implemented in a new Harvard Business Review article. (more…)

High Social Status Makes People More Trusting, Study Finds

By Guest PostOctober 3, 2011CultureBOSS, employees, game, jeff grabmeier, nathan petit, new job, positive expectations, ratings of benevolence, robert lount, social status, university, willingness

COLUMBUS, Ohio – When you start a new job, your boss may be more likely to trust you than you are to trust him or her, a new study suggests.

The reason has to with the role that social status plays in relationships. (more…)

Measuring the Distant Universe in 3-D

By Guest PostMay 7, 2011Science3 d map, absorption, anže slosar, apache point observatory, bao, baryon acoustic oscillation, baryon oscillation, baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey, berkeley lab, bill carithers, BOSS, centers of galaxies, dark energy, david schlegel, james rich, lyman alpha forest, map intergalactic hydrogen gas, new mexico, of light years, precision tool, quasars, red galaxies, redshift, sdss, sloan digital sky survey, sloan telescope, spectrum, supermassive black holes, universe, wiggly structure

*Berkeley Lab-led BOSS proves it can do the job with quasars*

The biggest 3-D map of the distant universe ever made, using light from 14,000 quasars — supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies many billions of light years away — has been constructed by scientists with the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III).

The map is the first major result from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), SDSS-III’s largest survey, whose principal investigator is David Schlegel of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The huge new map was presented at the April meeting of the American Physical Society in Anaheim, CA, by Anže Slosar of Brookhaven National Laboratory. (more…)

Yahoo! BOSS, (no new face) but a new platform

By ShamsJuly 11, 2008TechnologyBOSS, new search platform, SearchMonkey, WebProNews

As Yahoo! will let developers to customize its web search, developers will get the possibility to dive deep into Yahoo!’s search technology.

This is the second approach of the Sunnyvale, California based company to more popularize its search technology development. Preceding this move, Yahoo! introduced ‘SearchMonkey’ that lets developers and site owners to customize how the searches would appear on their sites.

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