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Assigned this Ted Talk on trust by Harvard Business School professor Francis Frei to my leadership students and think it is more relevant now than ever....worth your 15 minutes!

How to build (and rebuild) trust | Frances Frei Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it's broken? In an eye-opening talk, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei give...

Excellent advice!!

The Curse of Off-Hours Email Getting work messages in the evening or on weekends can be stressful, but senders often don’t consider them urgent. There’s a way to fix the misunderstanding.

Love this Eric Barker newsletter on emotionally intelligent friends. Here's the summary

Here's how to make emotionally intelligent friendships:

Stay in touch: Friendship is not an arena where you want to play hard to get. What are you, a carnival prize?

Gratitude: If we're more kind to strangers than to friends, we are definitely doing something wrong.

Quality > Quantity: Share emotional experiences. That's the secret to those friendships where you can just pick up where you left off.

Budget appropriately: Time is limited. Allocate it wisely. And this is yet another reason to ditch the jerks in your life.

How to party: Eat. Laugh. Reminisce. Avoid small talk. The more the merrier. (And maybe a bit of booze.)

Make your best friend better: You influence each other more than you know. Make yourself better and help make them better, because, in the end, those two are the same thing.

Full blog post is here:

This Is How To Make Emotionally Intelligent Friendships: 6 Secrets - Barking Up The Wrong Tree The pandemic has been hard on our friendships. Here's what science says we can do to make them better in 2021...