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Retaining the best people is the most critical approach to successful corporate performance: RRA’s CEO Clarke Murphy

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Why You Need to Be Willing to Take the Heat If You Want to Be a Leader

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HBR: The Secret to Leading Organizational Change Is Empathy

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Women Are the X-Factor in New Ways of Working

 

For Black Scientists, the Sorrow Is Also Personal

 

Helping students (re)think of themselves as scientists

 

NYTimes: Want More Diversity? Some Experts Say Reward C.E.O.s for It

 

RRA: The Time Is Now: How Companies and Leaders Can Join the Fight for Racial Justice

 

RRA: The Next Frontier in D&I: Developing Your Leadership Pipeline

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HBR: The Power of Small Wins

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Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure

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To my white friends, the time for talk has passed. Now is the time for work

 

My White Boss Talked About Race in America and This is What Happened

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Pride in the Time of Covid

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HBR: U.S. Businesses Must Take Meaningful Action Against Racism

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HBR: Great Leaders Are Thoughtful and Deliberate, Not Impulsive and Reactive

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McKinsey: Psychological safety, emotional intelligence, and leadership in a time of flux

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HBR: Great Leaders Are Thoughtful and Deliberate, Not Impulsive and Reactive

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HBR: Managers, Adjust Your Expectations (Without Lowering the Bar)

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How Quarantine Has Brought My Family Closer Together

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HBR: Onboarding a New Leader — Remotely

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The Three Sides of Risk

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Experts have jobs. They need to understand those who don’t.

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Forging a New Future: Post-Pandemic Transition Tips

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I pledge to support my fellow IBMers working from home during COVID-19

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HBR: Don’t Hide Bad News in Times of Crisis​

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RRA: The New Era of Purpose-Led Leadership in Pharma

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Why Forgiveness Plays a Huge Role in Stress Reduction

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HBR: Everyone Suffers from Impostor Syndrome — Here’s How to Handle It

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HBR: Executives and Boards, Avoid These Missteps in a Crisis

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RRA: Board Leadership and Performance in a Crisis

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Ivory Power: How genetic scientists at Berkeley raced to the labs and created a high-speed test for the coronavirus

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Six Lessons on Navigating a Crisis—From the Leaders Who Have Done It Before

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Why Specific Positive Feedback is So Important

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RRA: Leadership Through Uncertainty – 10 Enduring Lessons for Turbulent Times

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COVID-19 Will Permanently Change The Way Every Generation Lives - Here’s How

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‘Virtual’ Doesn’t Have to Mean Second Best. Your Remote Team Can Outrun Traditional Ones

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I Spent a Year in Space, and I Have Tips on Isolation to Share

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The Hidden Work of Leadership Teams During Crises

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How Will Things Be Different When It’s All Over?

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HBR: Don’t Hide Bad News in Times of Crisis

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HBR: That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief

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HBR: The Contagion We Can Control

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HBR: How Chinese Companies Have Responded to Coronavirus

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HBR: A Time to Lead with Purpose and Humanity

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HBR (2002): Leading in Times of Trauma (published just after 9/11)

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McKinsey: Beyond Coronavirus: The Path to the Next Normal

 

McKinsey: How to restart national economies during the coronavirus crisis

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McKinsey: Winning against COVID-19: The implications for biopharma

 

Watch: Axios interviews CEOs on leading in a time of crisis (34 mins)

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FUN THINGS

Oakland A’s cardboard cutouts include Astros mascot Orbit in a trash can

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Amazon introduces boxes that can be recycled into cat condos, forts and other creations

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Best Hair in Biopharma Race Heats Up As Bristol-Myers Squibb Elicker Pulls Ahead

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Feeling antsy? Join the club. Nearly 2 million people on Facebook are pretending to be ants.

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Every Type of Zoom Call Participant, Illustrated by Cats

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Little Girls Have The Most Special Relationship With Cats

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KBO Playing Games in Front of Stuffed Animal Fans is a COVID-19 Trend We Can All Get Behind

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The Difference Between Living in New York and San Francisco

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Barcelona opera house reopens with performance to 2,292 plant

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With the public locked out, stuffed animals are riding the Giant Dipper every day

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A Conference Call in Real Life

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This ‘SNL’ video captures just what a wreck your house is after two months of quarantine

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Her Cellphone Number Used To Be Elon Musk's. You Can Imagine The Calls She Gets : NPR

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Honest Apologies for Why I Couldn’t Talk During Quarantine

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SNL: Let Kids Drink

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Man threatens to sue magazine for using his photo in article about

hipsters looking alike, before realizing it isn't him

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Overturned tractor trailer covers highway in mac and cheese

 

Best in Show - Judging the Hounds

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Dr. Seuss Raps over Dr. Dre Beats

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Ludacris Llama Llama Red Pajama Freestyle

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The truth the government doesn't want you to know about shelter in place

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Gary Busey to Adjudicate Animal Arguments on New Show ‘Pet Judge’

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Parrot Sings Death Metal

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Guy Discovers Just What His Cat Is Up to While He's Sleeping

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Florida Man Living in Abandoned Disney Park Says It's a Paradise

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Family designates sidewalk as Monty Python ‘Ministry of Silly Walks’ area to bring laughs during lockdown

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Cat Devises New Way to Go Down the Stairs

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Cat Fashion Show

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Cat Fashion Show Part Deux

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Cats + Dominos

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Laser Cats - SNL Digital Short

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Zoom: add a farm animal to your corporate video call for under $100

 

Fully Recovered Chris Cuomo Gradually Realizing Family Never Going to Let Him Out of Basement

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Every Covid-19 Commercial Is Exactly the Same

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We've all basically been on Zoom lately, and I've noticed there's all kinds of Zoomers out there

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Americans in Isolation Howl in the Night for Health Workers

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Mexican wrestlers sew Lucha Libre face masks

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Russian runner jogs 62 miles worth of laps around bed

 

Idaho man catches 98 tennis balls in head-mounted basket

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Stay Home! Back to Work! A Dog and Cat Debate Reopening America

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Watch This BBC Sports Broadcaster Give Colorful Commentary Of His Dogs Fighting Over A Chew Toy

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Cats Can Have Avocado Toast, But Avoid These Other Brunch Items

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Martha Stewart gets sloppy drunk, posts hilarious nonsense on chicken farm's Instagram

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Monkey caught on camera flying kite on rooftop

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Police department reminds residents to wear pants while checking mailbox

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Embracing päntsdrunk, the Finnish way of drinking alone in your underwear

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A unified theory of why Winnie the Pooh doesn’t wear pants

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Five stages of COVID-19 isolation

 

Some Good News with John Krasinski Ep. 2

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Some Good News with John Krasinski Ep. 1

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The closet you’ll get to an international flight…

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This Woman Accidentally Turned Herself Into A Potato For A Video Meeting And Couldn't Figure Out How To Fix It

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An Adele Parody: Hello from the Inside

 

An Ode to Zoom

 

6 Games You Can Play On Zoom For Long-Distance Fun

 

Bingo: Homeschooling While Working From Home During a Global Pandemic

 

Couples Have a Working-From-Home Revelation: That’s What You Do All Day?

 

Cowboy Museum Puts Their Head Of Security In Charge Of Their

Twitter, And His Tweets Are Hilariously Wholesome

 

People Are Getting Creative With Their Work-From-Home Setups

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News & Resources

HBR: A Survival Guide for Leaders

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How Are You Measuring Employee Morale? 4 Things You Can Do to Get Better

 

‘I Feel Your Pain’: The Neuroscience of Empathy

 

Use the Magic 5:1 Ratio to Improve All Your Relationships

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HBR: The Implications of Working Without an Office

 

Your 'Doomscrolling' Breeds Anxiety. Here's How To Stop The Cycle

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McKinsey: Make it better, not just safer: The opportunity to reinvent travel

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How to Sustain Your Organization’s Culture When Everyone Is Remote

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Gartner: 9 Tips for Managing Remote Employees

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RRA: Diversity and Inclusion During a Crisis: Five Emerging Lessons

 

HBR: Update Your DE&I Playbook

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The jobs on the rise amid COVID-19

 

Can You Really Return to a Gym During Covid-19?

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HBR: Working Parents, Your Family Needs a “Board of Directors”

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INC: 3 Things You Still Have Control Over When Facing Uncertainty

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How unhealthy really is it to have an alcoholic drink (or two) every day?

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In the Covid-19 Economy, You Can Have a Kid or a Job. You Can’t Have Both.

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Where (and How) We Want To Work: Things I learned asking 200 people about working from home

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Goldman Sachs: Mask mandate could save the U.S. from a 5% GDP hit

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How to Keep Your Team Motivated, Remotely

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An Etiquette Guide to Dining During a Pandemic (how to not be jerk)

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Managers, Encourage Your Team to Take Time Off

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No More Pizza Fridays: Companies Find New Perks for the Remote Worker

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RRA: A Leader's Guide to LGBTQ+ Talent Strategy

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3 tips on resiliency to help you avoid remote-work burnout

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Coming Together: Standing Up To Racism - A CNN/Sesame Street Town Hall For Kids and Families

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How to raise anti-racist kids: 20 resources for parents

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These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protest to Your Kids

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Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay — Chances Are They’re Not

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Being A Black Police Officer Is 'Hard As Hell,' Retired Chief Says

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5 Ways Leaders Accidentally Stress Out Their Employees

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How Sleep Has Changed in the Pandemic: Insomnia, Late Bedtimes, Weird Dreams

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McKinsey: Reopening safely: Sample practices from essential businesses

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Skills for working at home with children during lockdown

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23 Brilliant Life Lessons From Anthony Bourdain

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Silicon Valley defined modern office culture. Now it needs to learn to live without it

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An Illustrated Guide To Showing Up For Yourself

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COVID Patients Testing Positive After Recovery Aren’t Infectious

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California State U. System Will Conduct Most Fall Classes Online

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Seattle’s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York’s Did Not

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Study Predicts Post-Lockdown Traffic In Bay Area Will Be a Nightmare

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8 Truths About Intuition

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Eightfold Talent Exchange

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COVID-19 and reskilling the workforce

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What Airbnb Got Right About Announcing Layoffs

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HBR: How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion

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The Effects of Downsizing on Employees Who Survive the Layoffs

 

Take These Steps To Boost Morale After Layoffs

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Beware Overblown Claims of Coronavirus Strains

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Expertise can help save us from Covid-19 — if we use it right

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McKinsey: How COVID-19 Is Changing the World of Beauty

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RRA: Executive Transitions and Onboarding in a Crisis

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All Essential Workers Can Now Get Free COVID Testing Without Any Symptoms

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Hoping Llamas Will Become Coronavirus Heroes

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​What It Takes To Be A Contact Tracer

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Forbes: Mark Cuban’s Proposal to Hire Millions of Coronavirus Contact Tracers is Needed to Restart Economy

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Why Zoom Is Terrible

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Tips and strategies to improve virtual meeting performance

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Staying Home? Perfect Time to Learn Lifesaving Skills

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Opportunities In Healthcare's New Regulatory Era: Dr. Karen DeSalvo & Eric Hargan

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Boards Meet Weekly on ‘Huge, Consuming’ HR Issues

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Tone at the Top: The Board’s Impact on Long-term Value

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Delineating the roles of the CEO and the top team in times of crisis

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A COVID-19 treatment inspired by llamas

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Six Lessons on Navigating a Crisis—From the Leaders Who Have Done It Before

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Tips for Compassionate Employee Layoffs

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Tests in recovered patients found false positives, not reinfections, experts say

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Atreca, BeiGene, and IGM Biosciences Agree to Collaborate on Novel Antibody Treatment for COVID-19

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Master Self-Forgiveness With These 5 Questions

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RRA: What We Can Learn from Business Leaders in China

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Two Errors Our Minds Make When Trying to Grasp the Pandemic

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7 habits of people who keep it together during uncertain time

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Logged On From the Laundry Room: How the C.E.O.s of Google, Pfizer and Slack Work From Home

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SafeGraph Provides CDC and 1000+ Organizations With Data to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis

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The Bosses Who Prefer When Employees Work From Home

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Science: How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes

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Steps for Healthy Relationships During Crisis and Quarantine

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RRA: Ensuring Assessment Quality in Virtual Interviews

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RRA: 7 Simple Tips and Reminders for Successful Video Interviewing During Today’s Crisis

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RRA: 5 Key Considerations for Candidate Engagement in Today’s Crisis

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Strategic Planning In Biotech During A Pandemic Crisis

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How to Look Better in Your Next Zoom Meeting

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How to Keep Quarantine From Ruining Your Marriage

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How to Keep the Party Crashers from Crashing Your Zoom Event

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Where to donate masks, gloves and supplies for San Francisco & Oakland hospitals in need

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Company-specific staffing info

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Adapting to Life Indoors
 

California Life Sciences Association (CLSA)

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Xfinity Video: How to Maximize Your Home Wifi

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This Weird App Might Just Help You Get Through The Coronavirus Lockdown

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I Tested Positive for COVID-19

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