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From Getting Your Emails Read To Workplace Slights: This Week’s Top Leadership Stories

This week’s top stories may finally get your coworkers to read your emails and help you recover from the workplace’s daily injustices.

This week’s top stories may finally get your coworkers to read your emails and help you recover from the workplace’s daily injustices.

This week we learned how to write more open-worthy email subject lines, what it takes to bounce back from unfair treatment, and how to put downtime to more productive use.

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4 Tips For Leading Teams Of Freelancers

You still have to motivate the team members who work remotely, temporarily, or part-time.

You still have to motivate the team members who work remotely, temporarily, or part-time.

How do you manage someone you’ve never met in person? And how do you gain loyalty from somebody who works for you 10 hours a week? How do you make all the parts work together?

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How The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’s New Producer Is Reshaping The Show

Morning Joe co-creator Chris Licht on removing roadblocks, fostering collaboration, and minimizing drama.

Morning Joe co-creator Chris Licht on removing roadblocks, fostering collaboration, and minimizing drama.

After launching MSNBC’s Morning Joe and reinventing CBS This Morning, producer Chris Licht is steering his career in a darker direction—literally. As the new executive in charge of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Licht has ditched the crack-of-dawn time slot of past gigs for a program that airs when most people are heading off to bed.

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When To Influence People, When To Inform Them, And How To Know The Difference

Sharing knowledge, expertise, and information can help you be more persuasive, but it isn’t persuasion itself.

Sharing knowledge, expertise, and information can help you be more persuasive, but it isn’t persuasion itself.

I once asked the head of a top ad agency what makes a good ad. “No idea,” he said. “I have creatives for that! My job is to manage the prima donnas.”

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3 Tips To Help You Worry Less And Get Back To Work

It’s normal to ruminate on real or imagined crises, but these strategies can help keep your anxiety down and your productivity up.

It’s normal to ruminate on real or imagined crises, but these strategies can help keep your anxiety down and your productivity up.

You make a mistake at work that you immediately know will have negative consequences. So you think about what went wrong and how you could’ve prevented it, but failed to. Then you mull over the likely short-term fallout, followed by the long-term consequences of the blunder. From there you return to what you did wrong and why you did it in the first place. And the cycle continues.

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