The Only Way to Get Even at Work

Written by Joel Garfinkle


R.J. Rehwinkels said, "The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you."

Sir Winston Churchill and Lady Astor would have done well to heed his advice. Those prominent British politicians experienced one ofrepparttar most bitter relationships inrepparttar 103578 history of Parliament. Their interactions were filled with conflict, sarcasm, and caustic remarks.

During one legislative session, Lady Astor became so upset with one of Churchill's decisions that she shouted, "Sir Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."

Churchill retorted, "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."

In many workplaces, colleagues and coworkers emulate Churchill and Astor's stormy relationship by consistently putting each other down instead of building each other up. It's all too common in today's "dog eat dog" job market for positive, uplifting, and encouraging words to be replaced by negative, piercing, and destructive ones.

So, how do you deal with critical co-workers, backstabbing colleagues, and other difficult people in your work environment? Try applyingrepparttar 103579 following five guidelines for positive working relationships and eventually you'll enjoy a more upbeat, enjoyable workplace.

Understanding Document Management

Written by Cavyl Stewart


The term "document management" and "paperless office" is repparttar subject of countless articles and books. Everyone wants to achieve this lofty goal but not everyone understands what repparttar 103577 terms really mean. Before you can embark onrepparttar 103578 journey of achieving total document management, it's important that you have a good basic knowledge ofrepparttar 103579 terms and concepts that go with it.

Once you start investigatingrepparttar 103580 various software solutions that are available you're going to run into some document management abbreviations, acronyms, and general terms that you might not be familiar with. Here is a "cheat sheet" that will help you to understandrepparttar 103581 material that you'll encounter as well asrepparttar 103582 conversations that you'll be having with document management solution providers.

Electronic Document Capture (EDC)

This isrepparttar 103583 generic term that refers torepparttar 103584 entire process of converting paper documents into their electronic equivalents. It covers concepts such as scanning, text recognition, image conversion and indexing for later retrieval. In other words, it is a catchall phrase forrepparttar 103585 entire document management process.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

OCR is a process that recognizesrepparttar 103586 printed words that are present on a physical document. OCR is generally used when processing documents that are printed in "normal" printer or typewriter fonts.

Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR)

This process is similar to OCR but is generally capable of also processing certain handwritten documents on special forms. It can also recognize and process "tick marks" and bar codes.

Electronic Document Management System (EDMS)

Sometimes referred to as Document Management (DM) or Document Management System (DMS), this term encompasses not justrepparttar 103587 electronic conversion of paper documents, butrepparttar 103588 management of electronically created documents including word processing and email. EDMS systems are used to locate and display documents as well as to maintain different versions ofrepparttar 103589 source document.

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