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Workplace Roles: Knowing When to Manage vs. When to Lead

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More concretely, the managing role involves directing and controlling groups of people to reach clear, specific goals. In comparison to leadership, management involves accomplishing the broad goals set by leaders. Leadership means inspiring people to do their best and accomplish goals that seem out of reach.

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The Return To Office Trade-Off

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Beyond the one-to-one comparison to the financial cost of commuting, food brings people together. It forms camaraderie in the office. If our ultimate goal is to get people back into the office willingly, food is a great place to start. They don’t have to pack a lunch if the company is picking up the tab for a cafeteria meal.

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9 Types of Journaling and How They Can Benefit Mental and Physical Health

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For instance, a 2013 study in Psychosomatic Medicine found that adults who engaged in expressive writing for three consecutive days before a biopsy healed more quickly in comparison to the group assigned to write about their daily activities. The key,” Leid says, “is to find something that works for you.”

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From the Archives: The Ultimate Cost of Penny-Pinching

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I know a rich man who has become such a slave to the habit of economizing, formed when he was trying to get a start in the world, that he has not been able to break away from it. Power is the goal of the highest ambition. He will very often lose a dollar’s worth of valuable time trying to save a dime.

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Asana vs ClickUp: Which Project Management Software is Best?

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ClickUp in a head-to-head comparison of their primary features, learning curve, customer support, and pricing. ClickUp is a bit of a newcomer in the project management space, as the platform launched in 2017 (for comparison, Asana has been around since 2008). ClickUp lets you set goals as well as a series of subtasks to reach them.

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We are not blank slates and we don’t adapt to change in predictable ways

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It bears some comparisons with Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas A Christakis which offered a wide-ranging look at how people and their societies and environments are shaped by their innate and sometimes unchangeable characteristics. These are always commendable goals and you can see the logic.

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‘Maybe the Only Way to Have an Answer to the Unknown Is to Face It Every So Often’

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From there the trail hops back and forth over Slickrock Creek, which forms part of the border between North Carolina and Tennessee. My goal is to conquer it today, camp at Naked Ground, then hook up with another trail that takes a less-strenuous 8.5-mile mile route back. That’s just one segment of local news.

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