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Savvy Professional Career Wisdom by Caroline Dowd-Higgins
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Practice Intentional Acts of Kindness
You’re stressed beyond measure at work – toiling away on the umpteenth Zoom meeting; racing the clock to get a grant proposal in; or working overtime to iron out a distribution snafu. Then a colleague sets aside their own project to pitch in on yours, or a friend, who’s been through something similar, picks up […]
Radical Candor: Part II – Breaking It Down
In my last blog post, I shared the story of Kim Scott’s radical-candor-epiphany while at Google, when her boss at the time, Sheryl Sandberg, pulled her aside and confronted her on a performance issue. While the experience was not a comfortable one for Scott, Sandberg’s forthrightness helped Scott to improve and grow, and become even […]
