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Before Breakfast

How to deal with chatty co-workers

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Education

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Learn to focus without alienating your colleagues

Transcript

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0:00.0

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is the greatest murder mystery in American history.

0:05.6

That's Rob Briner.

0:07.6

Rob called me, Soledette O'Brien, and asked me what I knew about this crime.

0:11.6

Well, ask, who had the motive to assassinate a sitting president.

0:16.0

Then we'll pull the curtain back on the cover-up.

0:20.0

The American people need to know the truth.

0:22.0

Listen to who the truth.

0:22.6

Listen to who killed JFK on the I Heart Radio app,

0:27.0

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:31.3

Welcome to Before. I'm

0:37.0

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:40.0

Good morning. This is Laura.

0:42.0

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:45.0

Today's tip is about how to deal with colleagues who like to socialize

0:49.0

when you have other things you want or need to do.

0:52.0

In my years of writing about time

0:54.7

management, I've learned that some questions come up more often than others. This is

0:59.8

one of the most frequent. So first, let's be clear.

1:03.4

Socializing with colleagues is not inherently a waste of time.

1:07.6

Unfortunately, this idea is still out there.

1:10.8

I've met people who've described themselves as good at time management because they hold themselves off

1:16.3

shut the office door if they have one and get stuff done

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