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DECEMBER 28, 2017

Marion Barraud for hbr. Working remotely has many benefits: flexible hours, no commute, and autonomy and control over how you work, to name just a few. But as any remote worker will tell you, there are also considerable challenges. According to a variety of studies , isolation and loneliness are among the biggest complaints. Working remotely means missing out on the human interaction and social aspects that being in an office provides.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

New Managers Can Be Better Coaches. To be successful managers must develop the ability to effectively coach others. If new managers do not become skilled at coaching, they will struggle to create high performance. Learning how to be an effective coach is a key behavior of the best managers. What Effective Coaches Do. Effective coaches: Help their employees perform at their peak.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

ALEXANDER JOE/Getty Images. After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980.

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Benefits in 2018 | Open Enrollment 2017: The Debrief | Become a Benefits Guru.

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Bill Eppridge/life/Getty Images. In a perfect world, job interviewers would be able to gauge your talents with great accuracy, so that you wouldn’t need to engage in any form of boasting or self-promotion. But talents can be notoriously hard to judge, particularly in short-term interactions with other such as job interviews: there is only a 4% overlap between interview ratings and subsequent job performance ratings.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2017

For more than 30 years, PNC Bank has calculated the prices of the twelve gifts from the classic carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas." The result is the PNC Christmas Price Index. According to PNC, this price of the gifts this year rose 0.6% to a total Christmas Price Index of $34,558.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

Carson Jimi Filipovski/Unsplash. The great business remix of the last three years shows no sign of abating. Deep changes in technology and globalization that started in the 1990s continue to up-end how we live and work. They have forced firms to reshuffle the cards they hold and remix the ownership of assets in the economy. This was the third year in a row with more than 50,000 M&A deals announced worldwide according to Thomson Reuters — a record run.

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