The Big Idea
Career columnist Anita Bruzzese has covered the workplace from all its angles. She뭩 been both an employer and an employee, and as a business journalist, has interviewed hundreds of top managers and workplace experts. In the course of her career she뭩 come to understand that many employees and their bosses are simply not on the same page ? as she puts it, many aren뭪 even in the same book to begin with.

This of course leads to nothing but trouble between both bosses and employees ? and is nothing but career suicide for those who can뭪 play by the rules.

Anita Bruzzese is the author of Take This Job and Thrive(2000). A career and workplace specialist, she writes a weekly nationally syndicated newspaper column for Washington, DC-based Gannett News Service called "on the Jon." The column, which has drawn interest and praise from across the country and internationally, focuses on workplace issues.

She is the managing editor of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Journal. She also writes for the websites HR Today and HROne.