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Managing Your Boss’ Impossible Expectations
It’s difficult to get a good night’s sleep when your boss, or client, is sending you emails at midnight and expecting an immediate response. That may be a drastic example but it’s a situation that many executives confront...
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Should You Use Profanity in Your Presentations and Media Interviews?
In addressing financial analysts, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, made headlines when he uttered a profanity in describing the firm’s legal issues a few years ago. He used a fairly mild swear word when he said the...
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When You Learn Your Employee is an Alcoholic
It’s not only disheartening but also disruptive when you learn one of your staff members has a drinking problem. Just this past week, a business colleague had a very upsetting experience that almost lost her a client. She...
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So You Think You Are Going to Faint
Being a little nervous before a presentation, or media interview, is only natural. However, it’s not natural if you panic and your heart starts racing, you break out in a sweat and want to throw up. If that describes you,...
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When You Know It’s Time to Walk Away From a Difficult Situation
Do you find you’re not sleeping at night? Are you taking aspirins to relieve your splitting headaches? Have you complained to your friends about your “client from hell?” These are signals that something isn’t right. Taking...
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Wrap Your Negative Feelings in a Tiffany Box and Keep Climbing
Do you regularly wind up capitulating to the OMG condition? OMG, I can’t do that. OMG everybody is superior to me. OMG I’ll never excel. The rundown goes on of all that negative reasoning that you require to banish. What...
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Why Memorizing is a Dirty Word
Unless you’re a professional actor who is paid to learn his lines, don’t try to memorize your presentations — virtual or in-person. Why put more pressure on yourself when you’re already anxious in front of an...
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Did I Waste My Time Attending That “Mandatory” Staff Meeting?
“Another hour of my time wasted,” you think, as you’re leaving yet another meeting that went nowhere.” That’s very often what staff members think when their leader doesn’t take charge of a meeting (virtual...
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Your Client’s Executive Assistant Can be Your Best Friend
Your Best Friend CEOs and other top-ranking executives these days are glued to their computers like the rest of us. But a high-powered executive assistant is still an essential fixture in the executive suite, even if her...
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