Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Years ago my husband and I were fortunate enough to travel to China with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn who was being permitted to bring his Buddhist teachings to the people in Beijing and various outer monasteries. Leadership is about being a model of behaving in ways that create cooperation and collaboration.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Pursuing a Return-to-Office: Advantages The managers who have been worried about their workforce may have been correct to a degree—many employees did start to face a disconnect from their work considering they weren’t as immersed in it as they would be while traveling to work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Ask anyone who travels for work: It’s not as glamorous as it looks. The excitement can wear off easily—and many business travelers are left feeling lonely. A 2015 study finds there are a host of costs—physiological, psychological and emotional, and social—to frequent travel. Business Travel.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

In his retirement announcement , Pichette gave voice to the sentiments of countless mid-career professionals when he asserted that “Life is wonderful” but it also involves a series of tradeoffs between professional endeavors and commitments to family and community. Whose career will take priority? Mid-Career Crisis.

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 23, 2016

The airline was having enough trouble negotiating their pilot contracts let alone getting cooperation from the supreme powers that be, so I bugged out to wander the concourse and pump a little blood into my travel weary brain cells. Janice and I were old friends, and I had recently helped her out of a sticky career jam.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

They have stayed at work late, risen early, traveled more than they wanted when their children were young, survived under different bosses, ascended through the ranks, and attained ever increasing responsibilities. Now, many of them have decided to slow down, play more golf or tennis, volunteer, and travel for pleasure. What’s relax?).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Nimbleness and frugality, after all, remain critical to growth, and it''s been interesting to see that even as the economy slowly recovers, plenty of business travelers voluntarily and even eagerly share hotel rooms with colleagues. Rita McGrath confirms that a practice of sharing rooms will backfire for management if not uniformly executed.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Though changing jobs may seem difficult at the time or could be hard to communicate with your managers but it’s essential to know that changing jobs can be great for both your personal and professional life. 1 year): Not making this a habit—job hopping—will help you achieve more and grow according to your career goals.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. Kristin Dadey has managed programs for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN migration agency, for the past 15 years. She recalls her time working in the Taliban-controlled Afghani province of Kandahar as the most challenging of her career to date.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

Overnight, his career came to a complete standstill. They devised a plan for homeless encampments that would operate more like cooperatives, and would include case managers, vocational schools, showers, wifi, a dining hall, and wellness programming while operating at a profit. They named it A Better San Francisco.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

But each of us can likely remember a time in our career where we said it, or heard it. In a big company, you might be facing the tradeoffs of signing a major OEM deal that will obligate your engineering or channel management infrastructure or going for a direct sales model that will require putting people on payroll.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

” Kate and her husband, Matthew, were a classic dual career couple. How could they design two careers that could give them both what they wanted: meaningful work, financial security, and a great family? One of their innovations was to plan a lifetime family career – together.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. Berwick’s talk spanned a pantheon of management thinkers to show the audience just how far we have come from Taylor to Deming in the 20th century. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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