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Increase the Odds of Achieving Your Goals by Setting Them with Your Spouse

Harvard Business Review

And we often think of our personal and professional goals as occupying distinct and separate spheres. But what if the work and home “spheres” could merge and actually improve the odds that we’ll achieve our goals? Research shows that it’s easier to achieve our goals when we’re not trying to go it alone.

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Getting Ahead by Leading Across

Harvard Business Review

Such relationships form the basis of an executive's ability to influence and persuade others and deal constructively with conflict and the differences of opinion that inevitably arise in fast-paced organizations.