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A Consultant’s Guide to Firing a Client

Harvard Business Review

Board development? There’s something to be said for small talk and “getting to know you” conversations (famed psychologist Robert Cialdini says neglecting these forms of relationship-building is one of the top mistakes that American professionals make). When you’re doing work you no longer want to do.

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Great Leaders Embrace Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

And over the last few years, building my executive coaching practice and teaching MBAs, I have been shocked by the lack of evidence backing up most career and leadership advice and the ease with which many coaches simply stick to unproven “feel good” aphorisms.