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Debunking Decision-Making Myths (Harvard Business Review)

For larger, high-stakes decisions, when we rely on our gut, we are relying upon bias and faulty memory. Important decisions benefit from prying open cognitive space to allow for new information and insight.

How to Talk to Your Employer about Extending Remote Working (The Cut)

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Talk about how keeping you remote would benefit your employer. If you’ve been more productive working from home because you can focus better, mention that (and if you can quantify that with concrete metrics, even better).

How to Ignore Bad Career Advice (Forbes)

Never take advice from people who aren’t [attaining] the results you want to experience. Instead, seek counsel from those who have done what you want to do, and even then, use it as a suggestion rather than a rule.




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