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Let’s Settle the Age Old Debate of Business Professional Attire vs. Business Casual Attire

HR Digest

As far as business casual clothing is concerned, the general consensus is that anything goes. If you sport glasses, you should definitely avoid wearing them. However, if you want to get ahead in your career, it’s best to follow the trends and stick to the basics. Here are some examples: Nails. Sunglasses. Final words.

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How to Enhance Involvement by Younger Generations in the Family Enterprise

Leading Blog

Some may want to pursue a career separate from the family enterprise, while some who join the family business may feel an extra level of intensity around performance expectations. One family professionally designed “family trading cards” similar to those popular in sports, creating experience across generations.

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Will Moneyball Analytics Kill Loyalty and Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. This next-generation "moneyball" ethos now transforming pro sports has enormous implications for how high-performance managers will incent and inspire tomorrow's high achievers. We have a luxury in sports," says Morey. "We

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A Great Negotiator’s Essential Advice

Harvard Business Review

During his remarkable career, described in detail here , Koh played central roles in some of the most complex international negotiations ever held. Negotiation is not usually an individual sport. Special Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky. Build a talented, happy, and cohesive team. Build a common fact base.

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What's Your Power Style?

Harvard Business Review

They may react negatively to consensus building on the job and gravitate towards leaders who operate independently and exude an aura of confidence. His parents, who loved and supported him, had been so preoccupied with his sister's athletic career that they had inadvertently left Jeff starved for attention.

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6 Things Every Mentor Should Do

Harvard Business Review

Over the course of our careers, and through our formal research on mentoring within and outside of academia, we’ve found that good mentoring is discipline-agnostic. We offer here an informal set of guidelines for good mentorship — a playbook, if you will, for a game that is very much a team sport. Choose Mentees Carefully.

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A Manager’s Guide to Crying at Work

Great Leadership By Dan

Reactions to our political leaders, sports heroes, and other role models crying are mixed. While there are no clear, consensus management rules to fall back to, there are a few things that may be helpful to know: 1. Fast forward to 2012: President Obama cried at a meeting with his campaign staff. the day after he won the election.

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