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A Deep Dive Into the Positive and Negative Impacts of Gossip

Success

Don’t tell anyone, but… I really shouldn’t say anything, but did you know… This stays between us… Miss Manners might clutch her pearls at the idea of this decorum-shattering habit, but gossip isn’t always in poor form. At some point doing our workday, we’ll casually share information with one another—in other words, gossip.

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Life Is Not a Movie

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Ebert’s prolific online journaling—at times so poignant and poetic you wondered why he spent decades reviewing movies —was called one of the year’s best blogs by Time magazine in 2010. The jokes, gossip, laughs, arguments, and memories I miss. For in his silence, Ebert learned to speak more eloquently than ever.

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How to Make More Money

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What if they’re going to choose who’s to be fired based on who is willing to learn the most and who has been willing to contribute the most? They’re reading celebrity gossip magazines. If not, keep dialing those in. As you dial those in, you bring in more money. If you’re an employee: It’s time to wake up. So value this day.

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What We Can Learn About Careers from Pope Francis

On The Job

Even if you don''t consider yourself a religious person, you need to learn to relax and not fight so many internal battles. 9) Committing the ''terrorism of gossip. "It''s 5) Working without coordination, like an orchestra that produces noise. Don''t make the mistake of letting your work quality slide just because you can.

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From the Archives: The Power of Reading

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Elihu Burritt, working all day in a blacksmith’s shop, had little opportunity for education, yet through his industry and love of reading and study, he became one of the greatest linguists in the world, and won for himself the honorable sobriquet of “the learned blacksmith.”

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Helping Your Executive Maintain A Competitive Edge

Office Dynamics

Learn how competing firms differ from your company and if they offer the same products or services. You can do this by reading newspapers, magazines, and trade publications. Resist the temptation to gossip or complain. Know your competition. Know as much about your company as possible. Be A Professional Agent Of Your Company.

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The New Economics: It’s About Time. (Governing Time)

Office Dynamics

This is doubly important for parents, as children learn by watching what parents do, not by listening to what parents tell them to do while doing something different themselves. Just like nail biting or gossip, whining is a bad habit - nothing more - and all bad habits can be broken. If you don’t… you both lose. So quit it.

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