Advice for Less Than Optimal Circumstances
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*With half my department furloughed, how can I keep from burning out and losing ground in my career? How can I best lead a large team that’s half remote? *We respond to these questions and others from listeners looking for advice on their common workplace quandaries. These are problems and solutions we can all learn from.

Our HBR reading list:

• “How Working Parents Can Support One Another),” by Stewart D. Friedman and Alyssa F. Westring

• “Global Teams That Work),” by Tsedal Neeley

• “If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired),” by Stefanie K. Johnson et al.

• “Women and Minorities Are Penalized for Promoting Diversity),” by Stefanie K. Johnson and David R. Hekman

• “Ideal Worker or Perfect Mom?)” by Alison Beard

• “The Pandemic Has Exposed the Fallacy of the ‘Ideal Worker),’” by Joan C. Williams

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