Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Are you stressing so much about things that are happening — out of your control — that you can’t enjoy the good things already in your life? You can throw away the script in: Your career. Your finances. You’ll seldom be able to script your bank account. In the trash. Most of the time. Your health.

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Stress Planning Edmondson Banking 61

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

What do you regret most about your career? But judging from the scores of follow-up questions and the volume of post-lecture emails I received, a talk on career regret would have been the real bull's-eye. Importantly, the effects of bad career decisions and disconfirmed expectancies were felt equally across age groups.

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Career Golden Handcuff Short-term CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

In addition, according to the World Bank , women now constitute 40%–50% of the workforce in many countries around the world, meaning work outside the home is impacting men and women more equally. Conversely, many women would love to pursue their careers but feel pressure to stay at home with children. Who pays the bills?

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Constraint Career Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

And although she’d once enjoyed banking, she now bore little interest in her work. Ignoring her shadow side was taking an enormous amount of energy, depleting her of her inner creativity, and contributed to various stress symptoms, including depressive reactions. Tina was at a crossroads.

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Self-aware Crisis Depreciation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Who wouldn’t want a meaningful career and better balance between work and home? For many of us, it’s finances that keep us from making a career change. We worry and wonder: What would a career change do to our bank accounts? What drove them to abandon established careers, steady incomes, and security?

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Career Budgeting Short-term Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

“After board dinners, we inevitably sit around and talk about our kids and their careers,” Dave Calhoun recently told me. The truth is, it’s difficult to advise kids about how careers really work today and how to get any job, much less a great job. This the Career Triangle. Photo by Andrew Nguyen.

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Career Follow-up Advice Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

According to a 2007 survey conducted by Robert Half International , nearly three-quarters (73%) of Gen Y professionals are worried about balancing a career with personal obligations. What's more, driving these traditional attitudes was a belief that career demands will limit their options for spending time with family in ten years.

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Sample Survey Career Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

The rethink took place in the context of a lot of skepticism (at best) about the banking system, the banking business model, and its contribution to American well-being. There also, however, is strong evidence that it is a bad idea to let big banks fail in the midst of a crisis.

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Banking Crisis System Compliance 8