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Do you talk in 'hot Political issues and Breaking news' or about the current events in the world during the period of work?

Are you from those who love to talk on these issues at work and outside of work?

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Question added by Yaqoub Alomar , Civil Engineer , Al-Zubeir municipality
Date Posted: 2015/07/03
Elke Woofter
by Elke Woofter , Project Assistant , American Technical Associates

I think there is for everything a time and place.. politics and religion can be a sticky issue therefore I take my grandfather's advice to avoid these subjects at the work place or function...

I agree with Mr. Muhammad Umar answer.

No I am not .

political issues is a main source of problems all time ; and it is not good thing to have problems with your job  mates .

Thanks for invitation .

Ali Mohamed Ahmed
by Ali Mohamed Ahmed , site engineering , شركة مقاولات

I support answer of Ms.Elke Woofter <<<Thanks

Mohammad Mosadaq" saad" Aljaafreh
by Mohammad Mosadaq" saad" Aljaafreh , مصمم جرافيكس , نغم الفنية للدعاية والإعلان

i think the work place is  not responsible for these subject\\s  because  talking about different views will effect the Career atmosphere and so Reflect negatively on production .

Muhammad Umar
by Muhammad Umar , Sales & Product Design Engineer , MAIRWAIS GOLDSMITHERY LLC

These things are all about us. Everyone is being affected by them. sometimes, it is necessary and sometimes, it is unintentionally have to talk about it but there are something which should not do in the first hour of work according to the experts.

Don’t Check Your Email for the First Hour. Seriously. Stop That.

Tumblr founder David Karp will "try hard" not to check his email until9:30 or10 a.m., according to an Inc. profile of him. "Reading e-mails at home never feels good or productive," Karp said. "If something urgently needs my attention, someone will call or text me."

Not all of us can roll into the office whenever our Vespa happens to get us there, but most of us with jobs that don’t require constant on-call awareness can trade e-mail for organization and single-focus work. It’s an idea that serves as the title of Julie Morgenstern’s work management book Never Check Email In The Morning, and it’s a fine strategy for leaving the office with the feeling that, even on the most over-booked days, you got at least one real thing done.

If you need to make sure the most important messages from select people come through instantly, AwayFind can monitor your inbox and get your attention when something notable arrives. Otherwise, it’s a gradual but rewarding process of training interruptors and coworkers not to expect instantaneous morning response to anything they send in your off-hours.

Gain Awareness, Be Grateful

One smart, simple question on curated Q & A site Quora asked "How do the most successful people start their day?". The most popular response came from a devotee of Tony Robbins, the self-help guru who pitched the power of mindful first-hour rituals long before we all had little computers next to our beds.

Robbins suggests setting up an "Hour of Power," "30 Minutes to Thrive," or at least "Fifteen Minutes to Fulfillment." Part of it involves light exercise, part of it involves motivational incantations, but the most accessible piece involves10 minutes of thinking of everything you’re grateful for: in yourself, among your family and friends, in your career, and the like. After that, visualize "everything you want in your life as if you had it today."

Robbins offers the "Hour of Power" segment of his Ultimate Edge series as a free audio stream (here’s the direct MP3 download). Blogger Mike McGrath also wrote aconcise summary of the Hour of Power). You can be sure that at least some of the more driven people you’ve met in your career are working on Robbins’ plan.

Do the Big, Shoulder-Sagging Stuff First

Brian Tracy’s classic time-management book Eat That Frog gets its title from a Mark Twain saying that, if you eat a live frog first thing in the morning, you’ve got it behind you for the rest of the day, and nothing else looks so bad. Gina Trapani explained it well in a video for her Work Smart series). Combine that with the concept of getting one thing done before you wade into email, and you’ve got a day-to-day system in place. Here’s how to force yourself to stick to it:

Choose Your Frog

"Choose your frog, and write it down on a piece of paper that you'll see when you arrive back at your desk in the morning, Tripani advises."If you can, gather together the material you'll need to get it done and have that out, too."

One benefit to tackling that terrible, weighty thing you don’t want to do first thing in the morning is that you get some space from the other people involved in that thing—the people who often make the thing more complicated and frustrating. Without their literal or figurative eyes over your shoulder, the terrible thing often feels less complex, and you can get more done.

Ask Yourself If You’re Doing What You Want to Do

Feeling unfulfilled at work shouldn’t be something you realize months too late, or even years. Consider making an earnest attempt every morning at what the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs told a graduating class at Stanford to do:

When I was17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

"Customer Service" (or Your Own Equivalent)

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark answered the first hour question succinctly: "Customer service." He went on to explain (or expand) that he also worked on current projects, services for military families and veterans, and protecting voting rights. But customer service is what Newmark does every single day at Craigslist, responding to user complaints and smiting scammers and spammers. He almost certainly has bigger fish he could pitch in on every day, but Newmark says customers service "anchors me to reality."

Your own version of customer service might be keeping in touch with contacts from year-ago projects, checking in with coworkers you don’t regularly interact with, asking questions of mentors, and just generally handling the human side of work that quickly gets lost between task list items. But do your customer service on the regular, and you’ll have a more reliable roster of helpers when the time comes. 

khaled elkholy
by khaled elkholy , HR MANAGER , misk for import & export

Agree with all experts ,thank you ...........

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