Career Development

  • The Manager’s Guide to Employee Mental Health: Or How to Stop Being the Reason People Need Therapy

    A surprisingly practical guide to not destroying your team’s psychological wellbeing Congratulations! You’ve been promoted to management. Your first instinct might be to celebrate with a power lunch and start referring to yourself as a “thought leader.” But hold that champagne – you now have the awesome responsibility of caring for actual human beings with

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  • Seven Steps to Being a Good Manager (Without Losing Your Mind)

    A survival guide for the accidentally promoted Congratulations! Someone looked at your work and thought, “You know what this person needs? The responsibility for other people’s problems.” Welcome to management, where your biggest achievement will be keeping everyone happy while slowly forgetting what you used to be good at. Don’t panic. With these seven scientifically-unproven

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  • How to Survive Professional Anxiety (Without Hiding Under Your Desk)

    A field guide to navigating workplace panic with your dignity mostly intact Introduction: Welcome to the Thunderdome Congratulations! You have a job! This means you now get to experience the thrilling roller coaster of professional anxiety, where every email could be your last and every meeting feels like a performance review disguised as a “quick

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  • Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You (Even When They Really, Really Want To)

    A survival guide for climbing the corporate ladder without falling off and taking everyone else with you Let’s face it: most career advice sounds like it was written by someone who thinks “networking” means having a really good WiFi connection. But here’s the thing about being so good they can’t ignore you – sometimes they’ll

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