WOW! - week 9

IMPLEMENT- as a verb, it means to put into practical effect, to bring about. It sounds much better to say that you implemented a policy sponsored by your boss rather than to say that you did what you were told.
A couple of years ago, my job title was "Implementor". In that case it meant to install and customize a software product.
IMPLEMENT is also a noun meaning a tool used in doing work.
A spade is a gardening implement.

-from the Latin Implere - to fill up.

WOW! - week 8

Our Word of the week is
PONZI
This word is always used with the word "scheme"
A Ponzi Scheme is a type of illegal pyramid scheme where money from new investors is used to pay off earlier investors until the whole thing collapses.
It is named for Charles Ponzi who duped thousands of investors in the 1920s.
You can read all about it on the site of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
http://www.sec.gov/answers/ponzi.htm

WOW! - week 7

Our Word of the Week is:
CHANGE-ADEPT

Adept , used as an adjective means very skilled; proficient; expert:
It can also be used as a noun - a skilled or proficient person

So a person who is change-adept is a person who is good at handling change.
Olsten Staffing Services says that "Energizing employees in a fundamentally unstable business environment is today's workplace challenge."
This being so, you can expect to find this as a requirement in job descriptions. If you are asked in a job interview how you handle change, have a story to tell about a time when you were able to accept a change and make it into a positive event.