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Now’s the time to ask for a raise

Fiscal clocks have been reset, budgets replenished. ‘Course, the economy’s looking like my kid just before she hurls—but even that might work to your advantage, as the barf hasn’t yet hit the fan. Come summer, it may be too late.

Brad Karsh of Ad Age offers these five tips to a raise-request strategy; they’re geared for the ad exec, …

I Have a Crystal Ball in My Office

Actually, it’s a paper weight. That may be why–though I stared at it very hard for at least a minute–I was utterly unable to make any credible-sounding workplace predictions for 2007.

In this I feel lacking. It’s fashionable for those in the workplace arena to make forecasts for the coming year, judging by the newpaper articles and …