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The Vanishing Executive Assistant? My Response

Eat Your Career

The article makes a number of claims regarding the EA profession, most of which can be summed up in the article’s subhead: The erosion of jobs that gave women without college degrees a career path happened in dribs and drabs but is as dramatic as the manufacturing decline Rachel Feintzeig.

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How Managers Can Help Frontline Employees Connect to Purpose

Great Place to Work

He gives the example of a hospital system, which might do a great job of celebrating doctors and nurses with appreciation days and storytelling campaigns, but neglects the administrative staff and medical billing professionals. How can you help these two groups connect the dots between their work and the work of their colleagues?

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should I be this emotionally drained by managing?

Ask a Manager

We are a manufacturing environment. I started as an analyst and worked my way up to manager and then senior manager, leading a team of warehouse operators and administrative staff, about 40 headcount altogether. A reader writes: I’ve been with my company over a decade.