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Hardworking procrastinators? It does sound like an oxymoron, but the truth is the world is filled with them. Employers love and appreciate them, they are confident and full of self-esteem, they love their workplaces, but as they cross the middle age, many of them spiral into depression, disillusioned with things, and the sudden realization that they are far from attaining their actual life goals.

A recent survey of 2500 Americans made by InterCall and published in April 2010 confirms general perceptions and reveals that U.S. workers are stressed to the length of sacrificing work-life balance in order to appear good to the employer.

Back during the absolute height of the real estate boom a home down the street from us went up for sale. I found out the home was for sale because I received a nice flyer about the home in the mail that also offered ''free hors d'oeuvres'' and champagne at an open house that was occurring at the home one weekday afternoon.

What to put on a resume can be daunting, frustrating, and upsetting.

Things are going to blow up in your face eventually if you are into micromanagement of your employees and trying to directly control each detail of the work process. Micromanagement sours employee-employer relationships and the joke will always be on the micromanager, for star employees resent micromanagement more than average or below-average employees.

Several years ago, we were launching a newsletter for law schools. One of our employees who was working on the project decided that the title of the newsletter should be ''The Signal'' and he was very enthusiastic about this particular title. In fact, I had never seen him so enthusiastic about anything.