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Are you striving for professional success? And how exactly do you define “success,” anyway? Depending on where you are and where you want to be—and what your priorities are, both personally and professionally—there will be different specific tactics that can help you get there.

But as this article says, there are some basic valuable skills and strategies that can help you achieve “career bliss,” however you define it. In other words, these simple things will help you grow and move ahead while also ideally moving towards a place of happiness and fulfillment in your work life.

First, as you’ve heard a million times before,...

NBA center Jason Collins recently “came out” in an interview for Sports Illustrated – making the basketball player the first openly gay male athlete playing in a major American team sport. His action garnered a great deal of media attention and even a statement of support from President Obama. One question on many minds, however, is how other players will react. Just as in any workplace, teammates may not know what to say or do. Some may feel uncomfortable with the subject and avoid talking about it at all costs. Others may respect the person’s courage to speak up but be unsure if broaching the subject is a good idea or not.

As with many workplace relationships -- such as those involving age gaps, gender, or race -- looking for commonalities often helps colleagues get...

How many hours of your typical workday is spent dealing with email? Probably more than you can count. And the worst part is, much of that time is spent dealing with spam or other unimportant messages.

SaneBox is a great tool to help you get your “insane inbox” under control. It creates a hierarchy of email importance and filers out less urgent emails so you can focus on the messages that are really important.

You don’t have to download or install anything, and it works with virtually all of the major email services like Gmail and Outlook.

SaneBox has some really helpful features—like BlackHole, which ensures that all future emails from an offender spammer goes straight to the trash (it also helps you unsubscribe from mailing lists with a single click).

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While getting upset with a person or an issue at work happens to most employees from time to time, unprofessional venting of frustration oftentimes can lead to more problems. Three pitchers from the Tampa Bay Rays learned this first-hand when they took to Twitter after a recent game to express their unhappiness with an umpire. Each was fined $1,000 for violating Major League Baseball’s policy against using social media to criticize an umpire.

Most workers, obviously, don’t have the same following as professional athletes, so it’s easy to think that a few online comments made to a friend or a co-worker won’t have an impact on...