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What not to say to someone who has just been laid off

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I Write Letters to CEOs (2018)

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Manager's Handbook (2020)

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Exit interviews are a trap

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The sunny side of firing someone

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That wild Ask a Manager story

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How to quit like a boss

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(Unofficial) Insider guide to tech interviews

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What do I do when my boss is sabotaging interviews?

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How to help a friend who lost their home in a fire (2020)

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Finding Your Swagger

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My Emotions as a CEO

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Ten Commandments of Salary Negotiation

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Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People (2020)

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Leaving Well

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Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer

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How to survive a toxic workplace and how to avoid creating one

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CTO day 2: downsizing the team

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Fire your bad customers

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Limitations and pitfalls of the job interview

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Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people

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Planning and Managing Layoffs

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I stood up to my boss, then he got promoted

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Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice

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If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot

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Favorite Interview Questions

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You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes

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The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced

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The Secret Rules For Getting Hired

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The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights

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The worst career advice I ever received

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The Art of Job Interviewing

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How to Keep Your Job as Your Company Grows

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I Write Letters to CEOs

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Why Great Employees Quit – Instead of Admitting They're Unhappy

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It's Never Too Early to Fire

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How Not to Bomb Your Offer Negotiation

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We Only Hire the Best

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Hire characters, not skill sets. My most important questions in interviews

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We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else

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Happy people don’t leave jobs they love

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How to hire the best people you've ever worked with (2007)

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Interview Questions for Hiring Top Performers

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Be Kind

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There are no B players

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I Don’t Want to Hire Women

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I Got Fired Last Week. That’s a Good Thing. Here’s Why

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We may get fired and I don't know what to do

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Do the right thing, wait to get fired

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Don't Look for Talent, Find People Who Do Things

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How to hire good people instead of nice people

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A Non-Negotiator’s Guide to Negotiating

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You are not Steve Jobs

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How should I deal with an employee who has slept with my wife?

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Never Have the “What Would It Take to Keep You Here?” Conversation

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Firing

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Hire For The Ability To Get Shit Done

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Fire the workaholics (2008)

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Want to be a leader? Wash the Dishes When Nobody Else Will.

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How to use last 5 minutes of a day

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Resist the urge to punish everyone for one person's mistake

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How To Rise Fast At Work: A True Story

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Get Out of My Building

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Seven steps to remarkable customer service

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Terminating an employee with a bus factor of 1

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Crush Your Interviews with the Power of Storytelling

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How not to bomb your offer negotiation (2016)

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How to hire low experience, high potential people

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How to write stuff no one else can

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How I build and run behavioral interviews

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Montage fallacy

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The unwritten rules of negotiating with Meta

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Engage your audience: get to the point, use story structure, force specificity

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