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How to Be a Family-Friendly Boss

Harvard Business Review

With today’s information technology, more and more work can be done in places other than the office and at times outside of traditional business hours. If your employees see you occasionally shifting hours, or using technology to work at a distance, they will feel more comfortable asking to do the same.

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Getting Employees Excited About a New Direction

Harvard Business Review

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. The Jam was three great days of idea generation and dialogue.”

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