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How to Manage a Toxic Employee

Harvard Business Review

“You might meet with them and ask how they’re doing — at work, at home, and with their career development,” suggests Porath. ” Also discuss what kind of behavior you’d like to see instead and develop an improvement plan with the employee. Struggling in their personal life? Frustrated with coworkers?

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10 Tactics for Launching a Product Using Social Media

Harvard Business Review

Millennials are turning to Facebook and Twitter, while GenZ, or the iGeneration, is skeptical of brands and places more value on peer-to-peer reviews–even from strangers. This was a clever use of social media, but not the only launch tactic. Seniors, Boomers and GenXers still like to curl up with a magazine.

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How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

We’ve found five tactics especially useful in our effort to keep our company culture healthy and productive. Managers focus on building a great team, creating a vision for how that team will execute its goals, and helping the people on that team develop in their careers. Reviews also come in from colleagues in other functions.