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So maybe your manager’s not an authoritarian. Maybe she’s just bad at her job. Maybe he’s the kind who is never around when you need him, or is the type who screams when things don’t go exactly his way. Maybe she doesn’t trust you… or maybe he’s just French and you can’t understand a darn […]

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What’s in a brand? Take Coca Cola. Coke “refreshes.” It always has. That’s its strength, and its benefit. Coke’s brand promise has been consistent for more than a century. You can always rely on it.
As with products, so with managers. In the video above, executive coach, Leila Bulling, Towne, of BNET’s “Leila’s House of Corrections” […]

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Social media has forever changed the way customers interact with brands. Many companies see this as a threat, but prominent social technology expert Charlene Li says you can see it as an opportunity. In this podcast, Li explains how businesses can take advantage of communities, blogs, wikis and Facebook. Li recently co-authored a book with […]

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Tip o’ the hat to TechRepublic’s Toni Bowers, who writes our sister pub’s Career Management blog. Toni posted a nice think piece about the nature of power in the office and how some bosses become, well, bad bosses. Responding to reader email that has come in over time, Toni writes:
One question always nags at me: […]

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How many times are you interrupted during a typical workday? Who or what interrupts you the most? Gloria Mark, a professor at the Department of Informatics at the University of California at Irvine, has conducted extensive research on the effects of workplace interruptions. She finds that many times, we are our worst enemy — we […]

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Did you know that a person’s face can reveal more about his true feelings than body language or words? Dan Hill is a recognized authority on the role of emotions in business and author of “Emotionomics.” He explains why emotions matter in business and discusses the four core emotions that managers should look for in […]

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Was the New York Times trying to be funny when it published its men’s fashion feature, “Shorts Crack the Code?”
In our BNET piece, Five Rules of Style for the Business-Casual Workplace, San Francisco business style consultant, Anthea Tolomei, relates the story of a recent trip to a corporate client to speak to an audience of […]

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Every day on BNET, we’re impressed by all the sharp (and sharp-tongued) comments our users leave on our feature articles, news and management blogs, videos, and other offerings. They almost always add smart insights, no matter what the topic. And no wonder, right? Our users are the real experts — they’re managers, execs, and other […]

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Back when attorney, former Nixon speech writer, and professional celebrity, Ben Stein was a youngster, he says in the video above, “Men wore ties to show that they had some kind of organization… A necktie is the sign of a man who is there to work, not to play.”
With respect to the great Mr. Stein […]

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Willie Brown was once dubbed “the Best Dressed Man in California” by Esquire magazine.
Who?
If you’re not from California, it’s forgivable if you’ve never heard of him.
Simply put, Willie Brown, 74, is one of the most powerful people in California politics. An attorney by trade and a politician by nature, Brown held the powerful office of […]

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