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Ask a Manager in the media! Here are articles and shows featuring Ask a Manager’s advice on workplace life.

Ask a Manager in the media

Here’s a round-up of Ask a Manager in the media recently… * An interview on the BBC’s Business Matters * An interview with Gretchen Rubin about happiness * Some answers for Girls Night In about self-care at work * An interview with the New York Post about embracing fear at work * Five questions with […]

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come see me in NYC on Tuesday night

If you’re in New York City, come see me on Tuesday night (tomorrow)! I’m speaking and will be doing lots of audience Q&A and signing books, and you should come! I’m told there will be wine. Details and tickets here.

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some things about my mom

A few years ago, I wrote up some things about my dad, on what would have been his 71st birthday. My other parent is still here, thankfully, and so for Mother’s Day, here are some things about my mom: * She is an extrovert’s extrovert, but somehow ended up with two introverted daughters. She makes up for this by talking […]

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Ask a Manager on Buzzfeed, Ask a Clean Person, and more

I wrote a piece for Buzzfeed about the #1 thing I’ve learned after reading 100,000 work advice emails (this piece is adapted from the intro to my book). You can read it here. Also, I know there are many fans of Jolie Kerr’s Ask a Clean Person podcast here and I was excited to be on […]

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let us discuss past letters

I’m on this week’s episode of Hannah and Matt Know It All, a very fun podcast where the hosts talk about questions from various advice columns and field new questions too. (If you like advice columns and you like podcasts, this show is your holy grail.) In this episode, we talked about a whole slew of recent Ask […]

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when your coworker is driving you nuts

I was on public radio’s Marketplace this weekend, talking about quitting your job, including: how to deal with noise in an open office space how to deal with a coworker whose chronic cough is driving you crazy is there a magic solution where you can get your coworker to stop doing an annoying thing without […]

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how to quit your job without burning bridges

I was on public radio’s Marketplace this weekend, talking about quitting your job, including: how to quit without burning bridges how much notice to give what to do if your office keeps contacting you with questions after you leave quitting on the spot if your employer revokes your vacation time at the last minute and more […]

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