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Both in the office and in our personal lives, it is safe to assume that we will encounter difficult people. The key is to brace ourselves with easy-to-apply strategies so that we remain as calm and ...

Hey, y’all! If you constantly find yourself acquiescing to difficult people at work, you may be “fawning.” Here’s the deal, plus how to stop it. Fawning is an “extreme form of people-pleasing” that ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sho Dewan is a career expert who covers work, top jobs, and business. In every career and organization, encountering a difficult ...

Let’s not pretend the workplace is a sanctuary of peace. It's often a stage for personalities louder than logic, tempers tighter than deadlines, and egos just waiting to be bruised. And in the middle ...

Work should never define or take over your life. Unfortunately, here are 11 things people think are normal at work but are ...

Most of us have dealt with that person before, right? Someone we’d classify as “difficult.” Someone we don’t like to spend time with, or who makes us feel stressed. We all have at least one person in ...