Nine to Thrivetag:blog.marketplace.nwsource.com,2008-04-18:/ninetothrive//752009-11-19T22:24:22ZMovable Type Pro 4.21-enDo you suffer from "sitting disease"?tag:blog.marketplace.nwsource.com,2009:/ninetothrive//75.122732009-11-19T06:41:32Z2009-11-19T22:24:22ZI'm not much for reading (or heeding the advice of) women's magazines. But a friend sent me a recent Women's Health article that had me leaping from my chair. Apparently sitting on your duff and staring at a computer screen all day is detrimental to far more than your spine and waistline. According to medical research cited in Women's Health, on average, Americans spend a staggering 56 hours a week in front of their computer screens, steering wheels, or televisions. Among the article's more dire warnings, all attributed to various...Michelle Goodmanhttp://blog.marketplace.nwsource.com/ninetothrive/Protecting your office against workplace violencetag:blog.marketplace.nwsource.com,2009:/ninetothrive//75.122502009-11-15T03:09:15Z2009-11-15T22:06:21ZIf you've been following the headlines lately, you might think that workplace shootings are the rule rather than the exception. But according to the Workplace Violence Research Institute, nothing could be further from the truth. "A much more common cause of death is robbery, which causes approximately 1,000 deaths from violence in the workplace each year," write Institute founders and workplace violence experts Steve Kaufer and Jurg Mattman. But since many of us still have gun-wielding colleagues fresh in our minds, I thought it would be helpful to mention some...Michelle Goodmanhttp://blog.marketplace.nwsource.com/ninetothrive/When CEOs and social media don't mixtag:blog.marketplace.nwsource.com,2009:/ninetothrive//75.122312009-11-11T06:40:17Z2009-11-10T17:20:38ZIf you follow social media news, you've probably heard about Chip Conley, the 48-year-old CEO of Joie de Vivre, a 3,000-employee company that runs a collection of boutique hotels in California. Apparently Conley likes to get personal on Facebook and Twitter. On Facebook, he posted pictures of himself at Burning Man, shirtless, donning a tutu in one photo, a sarong in another. On Twitter, he's lamented about the breakup of his eight-year romantic relationship. Conley's propensity to lay his life bare online left some of his younger employees confused, not...Michelle Goodmanhttp://blog.marketplace.nwsource.com/ninetothrive/