Weekly Hotlist: Before You Agree to Take on New Work, Ask 3 Questions

 

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May 29, 2017 Before You Agree to Take on New Work, Ask 3 Questions By Regan Walsh Advice for the overcommitted.

Sales How to Improve Your Sales Skills, Even If You're Not a Salesperson by Rebecca Knight Listen more than you talk. Talent management What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money? by Eric Garton Make investments and monitor their performance. Difficult conversations How to Have Difficult Conversations When You Don't Like Conflict by Joel Garfinkle Be curious and respectful. Collaboration Health Care Providers Must Stop Wasting Patients' Time by Nirav R. Shah, MD, Lynn M. Garofalo-Wright, Ronald Navarro, MD, Michael Kanter, MD An example from Kaiser Permanente shows how to do it. Intellectual property How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage by Luke Bencie And how business travelers can respond. Negotiations Having Too Many Options Can Make You a Worse Negotiator by Michael Schaerer, David D. Loschelder, Roderick I. Swaab According to a series of experiments. Stress How Leaders Can Push Employees Without Stressing Them Out by Karen Firestone It's easier said than done. Knowledge management Do Doctors Get Worse as They Get Older? by Yusuke Tsugawa, Daniel M. Blumenthal, Joseph P. Newhouse, Alan M. Zaslavsky, Anupam B. Jena Hospitalized Medicare patients treated by younger physicians were less likely to die within 30 days.

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