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How to Make a Great First Impression

Harvard Business Review

Another way to build rapport is to, “find a bond or a point of commonality,” says Clark. The bond needn’t “be profound”— it could be that you “attended the same university, have kids the same age, or have read the same book recently.” It can be a good way to uncover common bonds.

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What Happens After You’re Forced to Resign

Harvard Business Review

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

Is this a time to mount a campaign for Plan B, that other job or career youve been putting off looking into? Those who are at work on Thanksgiving — even if it is virtual work online — can make special bonds with each other. Instead, I literally mean, consider the alternative. Second, reach out to the people youre with.

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After Your “Daddy Days” End

Harvard Business Review

So-called “daddy days” offer precious time to bond with a new baby, cement new household routines, and lay the foundation of a family’s life. What to do, then, to prevent new parents from reverting to ingrained, gendered behavior patterns, replete with disappointment, exhaustion, derailed careers, and worse?

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Social Means Freedom, for Better or for Worse

Harvard Business Review

Some would argue — myself among them — that this number would be larger if portable health care existed. McAfee formed a strong bond of commitment with the hundreds of unpaid technical experts in the larger marketplace who know (and like) McAfee's platform of solutions. More on that in future posts.). Work is freed.