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Women at Work

Advice for Less Than Optimal Circumstances

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business/management, Human, Business/careers, Women, Careers, Hbr, Resources, Workplace, Gender, Business, Business/entrepreneurship, Harvard, Progress, Equality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We talk through questions from listeners seeking advice on dealing with the challenges they’re facing right now—from how to handle pandemic-related burnout to how to increase their company’s diversity in hiring. Guest: Alison Beard. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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0:00.0

Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.

0:05.0

Things you used to do in a day take a week.

0:08.0

You deserve a customized solution, and that's Net Suite. Learn more when you download NetSuite's popular

0:15.5

KPI checklist absolutely free at NetSuite.com slash women at work. That's NetSuite

0:22.3

dot com slash women at work. That's NetSuite.com

0:23.4

slash women at work.

0:29.4

You're listening to women at work

0:30.9

from Harvard Business Review.

0:32.4

I'm Amy Gallo.

0:33.6

And I'm Amy Bernstein.

0:36.4

It's tough enough to manage ourselves and others while trying to navigate the emotional

0:41.2

ups and downs of this crisis.

0:44.0

Every day, it seems as if work presents me

0:47.0

with something new or unexpected or difficult.

0:51.5

And for me, talking through that thing whatever it is with a couple of people

0:56.0

who I trust who I know have my back gives me the perspective I need to better deal with it. So today we're your couple of people.

1:06.3

We're spending this time talking through some sticky situations that

1:10.5

listeners have emailed us about recently.

1:13.0

These are problems and solutions we can all learn from.

1:17.0

Joining us is Allison Beard.

1:19.0

Allison co-host two shows, Ideacast, where she interviews leaders in business and management, and

1:25.0

dear HBR, where she and our colleague Dan McGinn talk through people's workplace dilemmas

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