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Management Essentials: How To Fire

02.20.2012 Jobs & Working

There are legal requirement that outline what you can and cannot do to fire an employee. You’ll need to find out what those are for your area. But there’s also the task of firing itself. Very few people like to talk about this, let alone, provide training. You may use different terms, “We’re letting you [...]

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Crit Happens

02.16.2012 Art

My youngest daughter, a freshman at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), gave me a t-shirt for Christmas. It’s emblazoned with one of the more popular sayings around campus: “Crit Happens.” It does indeed. RISD embraces criticism from the top to bottom. It’s a regular part of daily life there. It can be brutal [...]

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