Weekly Hotlist: How to Spend the First 10 Minutes of Your Day

 

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June 23, 2014 How to Spend the First 10 Minutes of Your Day By Ron Friedman It shouldn't involve email.

Negotiating Two Kinds of People You Should Never Negotiate With by Judith White And two you'll want to avoid, but shouldn't. Talent management Your Company Is Not a Family by Reid Hoffman Think of it instead as a championship-winning team. Career planning Don't Do What You Love; Do What You Do by Charlotte Lieberman "Love" puts too much pressure on work. Negotiating Why Women Don't Negotiate Their Job Offers by Hannah Riley Bowles The social cost is too high. Managing yourself Case Study: Is It Ever OK to Break a Promise? by Neil Bearden A student must decide whether to leave the company that sponsored his MBA for a dream job. Innovation Why Would Amazon Want to Sell a Mobile Phone? by Scott Anthony 3-D may be the future not of telephony, but of retailing. Communication Choose the Right Words in an Argument by Amy Gallo How to approach six tricky workplace scenarios. Managing people Three Ways to Actually Engage Employees by Michael C. Mankins Start by talking about impact, not financial performance.

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