Career & Work

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• New Year's Career Resolutions You Should Make
  

  It's resolution time again. Instead of making the same old difficult-to-stick-to promises, like losing weight or quitting smoking, use the New Year to take stock of your career. Addressing career concerns might make you more fulfilled on a daily basis. If you make the resolutions wisely by setting small, achievable goals, you're likely to feel particularly rewarded.

  
  
• Winners and Losers
  

  When it comes to big business, high-level politics and professional sports, it's becoming less and less about how you play the game, and more about whether you get just mildly wealthy or obscenely rich. That certainly seems to be the case if this year's cast of winners and losers is any indication. But while a fat paycheck may get you that house in the Hamptons and the envy of your peers, it won't necessarily garner you the much-coveted MarketWatch "winner" status. And it might even land you the dreaded "loser" tag, depending on the events leading to the payday.

  
  
• More Than One Road to the C-Suite
  

  Getting to the corner office was once just a matter of paying your dues and following a narrowly defined route. Want to become a chief executive? You had better put in time as the president or chief operating officer. Dream of becoming chief financial officer? It's best to have vice-president of finance on your resume first. If only it were still that easy.

  
  
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• Happy Countries, Committed Workers
  

  All too often, studies seem to show workers being dissatisfied and fed up. A Conference Board survey earlier this year, for example, showed that less than half of all Americans say they are satisfied with their jobs, down from 61% 20 years ago. And the numbers were even more striking among the newest entrants to the workforce. Less than 39% of workers under the age of 25 said they are satisfied with their employment situation.

  
  
• Defusing Personality Bombs At Work
  

  Manage enough employees and you'll face individuals with personality disorders. The way you respond can either promote calm or provoke turmoil. "We all have diverse personalities," said Laurence Miller, a clinical business psychologist in Boca Raton, Fla. "But when personality traits turn into personality disorders, you have a problem." Author of "From Difficult to Disturbed," Miller describes the most difficult people to manage as "personality stealth bombs." The severity of their dysfunctional personality may not manifest itself at first, but it eventually grates on everyone on the team.

  
  
• Set Yourself Up To Rise
  

  You've been with your firm five years and haven't been promoted in three. It's not the economy. It's not your industry. You've sadly concluded: It's you. Co-workers are skyrocketing. You're landlocked on the same perch.

  
  
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