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How to Manage People Who Are Smarter than You

Harvard Business Review

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? How do you coach them if you don’t have the same level of expertise? “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.” What the Experts Say. Face your fears.

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How to Build a Strong Relationship with a New Boss

Harvard Business Review

How should you establish a positive, productive working relationship with your new manager? How do you get to know them without seeming like a kiss-up? “Recognize that people do draw some impressions about you pretty quickly,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of Competing Against Luck and the HBR Guide to Office Politics.

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The Unimportance of Practically Everything

Harvard Business Review

Distinguishing the "trivial many" from the "vital few" can be applied to every kind of human endeavor and has been done so persuasively by Richard Koch , author of several books on how to apply the Pareto Principle (80/20 rule) to everyday life. Most of us just haven't fully learned how to do that. Indeed, the examples are everywhere.