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Resilience (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
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Resilience (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

by Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, Shawn Achor
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
144 pages
1h 30m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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How Resilience Works

By Diane Coutu

When I began my career in journalism—I was a reporter at a national magazine in those days—there was a man I’ll call Claus Schmidt. He was in his mid-fifties, and to my impressionable eyes, he was the quintessential newsman: cynical at times, but unrelentingly curious and full of life, and often hilariously funny in a sandpaper-dry kind of way. He churned out hard-hitting cover stories and features with a speed and elegance I could only dream of. It always astounded me that he was never promoted to managing editor.

But people who knew Claus better than I did thought of him not just as a great newsman but as a quintessential survivor, someone who had endured in an environment often hostile to talent. He had ...

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ISBN: 9781633693241