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Make Work Meaningful for Your Freelancers, Too

Harvard Business Review

It’s your job as a manager to make work meaningful for the members of your team. based software developer, focused on affiliation and the importance of feeling part of a community: “The meaningfulness of a project for me comes down to sharing in the product owner’s objective and success. Check in and offer feedback.

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Why do some talented executives fail?

Coaching Tip

In their book, Maximum Success: Changing the Twelve Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead , James Waldroop and Timothy Butler identify twelve behavior patterns--what they call "Achilles' heels" — that can harm, or seriously hinder, a person's career development. 2) Seeing the World in Black and White.