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How to Keep Your Most Valued Employees (Entrepreneur)

Your employees will emulate you. Because of this, you have to be a good role model when it comes to a healthy balance. Companies that keep the best people on their team know that every employee’s healthy work-life balance looks different.

When to Take on Tasks Outside Your Job Description (Harvard Business Review)

As you consider [engaging] in important tasks that [...] aren’t your responsibility, carefully consider the implications [...], and whether you have the knowledge to do it, especially across team boundaries.

How to Avoid Heated Conversation in the Workplace (Inc)

[Take] 10 seconds to stop and collect your thoughts and emotions before you respond. You freeze the [...] cycle in place and have an opportunity to respond differently from how you might have otherwise.