Friends at Work Could be Good for the Bottomline (Charlie Herman Interview on WNYC, NPR)

WNYC’s Charlie Herman talks to management consultant Peter Bregman who wrote in the Harvard Business Review online about people who develop friendships in the workplace and tend to do better in all kinds of ways.

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Advice For The Job Search: Spend Less Time Looking (Amy Eddings Interview on WNYC, NPR)

Why Not Having a Plan Can Be the Best Plan of All

by Peter on April 28, 2010
in Harvard Business

This weekend I went back to Princeton University, where I was a student over twenty years ago, to give a speech. As I traveled to the campus I remembered a single question that haunted my last few months of schooling: now what?

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Diversify Your Self

by Peter on October 21, 2009
in Harvard Business

Recently, a woman working for France Telecom sent an email to her father. Then she walked over to the window on the fourth floor of her office building, opened it, stepped through, and jumped to her death.

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Prepare Yourself for the Next Downturn

by Peter on August 12, 2009
in Harvard Business

I started my consulting business 11 years ago with a laptop computer in a living room. It grew quickly. The first year I made more money than I had in the previous three combined, the second year I doubled that, and by the third year I began to fantasize about retiring within the decade.

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