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The Omissions That Make So Many Sexual Harassment Policies Ineffective

Harvard Business

In this somewhat paranoid scenario, a simple touch on the arm or a nonsexual comment on appearance (“I like your hairstyle”) could subject “innocent” employees (usually heterosexual males) to persecution as stipulated by the policy.

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My Struggles with Suicide

CaseInterview.com

I’m not an expert on this topic. My goal is to have a dialogue around an important topic that has many taboos and stigmas surrounding it. Depression and suicide are difficult topics to talk about openly. The only thing worse than being “crazy” was to publicly taint the ancestral bloodline with any hint of mental illness.

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How Mindfulness Helped a Workplace Diversity Exercise

Harvard Business

In an era in which “diversity” has become a buzzword in the business world, the firm’s interest in the topic was both admirable and understandable. Diversity initiatives are important, and discussions about sensitive topics like race, gender, and ethnicity need to occur.

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The Science of Burnout: Interview with Dr. Sangeeta Pati

Consulting Matters

So it sounds like what you do with your clients or what I do with my clients and organizations; but that's a different subject for a different day. So I’m dying to hear how this relates to the experience of burnout, which is the topic for today. And they do lead to degenerative diseases.

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The Case for Trade, and Why American Leaders Need to Make It

Harvard Business

trade agreements for loss of jobs and a rash of economic ills. That failure will have implications for other critical topics on which the U.S. Trade is in trouble in U.S. Both the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, have blamed U.S. If the U.S. steadfastness or even the U.S.