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What Should You Pay Attention to During This Pandemic?

Lead Change Blog

What you’re concentrating on can make a big difference in your business, career, and health. Case Study: Attention in Manufacturing. Let’s consider James, the COO of a mid-size production company that was impacted by the pandemic.

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Case Study: Can Nice Guys Finish First?

Harvard Business Review

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. At age 32, Adam considered himself to be at the beginning of his career, still emerging from the cocoon of his impressive education. My age," Adam said. And — ".

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How to Write the Dreaded Self-Appraisal

Harvard Business Review

In his view, since study after study has shown that we are horrible judges of our own performance, any self-evaluation should focus exclusively on positives; people should not be self-critics. Smart employees use self-appraisals to lobby for career development opportunities. Case Study #2: Be honest when you can be.

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What to Do When Your Boss Has a Favorite (and It’s Not You)

Harvard Business Review

“You’re trying to develop a healthy relationship by getting to know him,” she says. You want to “develop relationships with people in positions of power throughout the organization,” to help broaden and deepen your understanding of the challenges you’re collectively facing and where opportunities lie.

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How to Prepare for Maternity Leave

Harvard Business Review

“Part of running a 21st-century company with a 21st-century work force is establishing systems that allow for women to go out and return from maternity leave with minimal impact on the company or on their careers,” says Joan Williams, founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law.

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How to Tell If a Company’s Culture Is Right for You

Harvard Business Review

John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You Love , agrees that it’s important to do further “due diligence” on the company and its people to make sure it’s a place you want to work. “Ask if you are able to move into other functions and other roles as your career progresses.

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When the Competition Is Trying to Poach Your Top Employee

Harvard Business Review

Case Study #1: Stay in touch with employees who leave. ” Case Study #2: Cultivate a positive work environment. Jeff Francis, the COO of Copper Mobile, a Dallas-based mobile app development firm, says that poaching is “pretty common” in his business.