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Underachiever? Overachiever? Find the Right Balance

By Daniel Goleman — 2017

Over-eager and lackadaisical colleagues face the same roadblock: balancing the personal drive to achieve with the needs and goals of the organization.

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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others.

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Adam Grant
2014
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Workplace Challenges after a Cancer Diagnosis

Courtland sits down with Maimah Karmo, founder of the Tigerlily Foundation, at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. In this interview, they discuss the challenges that occur in the workplace after a cancer diagnosis and what an employer can do to help.

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2016
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Cancer and Work—Working after a Cancer Diagnosis

Sherri shares her story of returning to work after a cancer diagnosis

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2012
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How to Say to Your Employer that You Have Cancer

This guide will give you helpful instructions to ensure you get good at coping with cancer.

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2011
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Moving Past the Cancer Stigma at Work

A common concern of cancer patients and survivors working through treatment or returning to work after treatment is the fear of becoming known as the “cancer girl” or “cancer boy” in the office.

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2019
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Cancer and Finances—Linda’s Story

Financial hardship often accompanies a cancer diagnosis. Linda shares her experiences and insights about managing questions with employment and finances that often accompany a cancer diagnosis.

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2020
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Survivors Share Their Work & Cancer Experiences

You're not alone! Cancer and Careers is here to provide working people with cancer the support, coaching, advice and resources you'll need as you fight cancer. We offer career coaching/counseling, personal stories from other survivors, legal advice and so much more.

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2009
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Balancing Work & Cancer: Newly Diagnosed: Getting Started

Receiving a diagnosis can be overwhelming and the considerations can be numerous. What are the next steps? Getting yourself organized and having a plan can help create a better sense of control over the situation.

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2020
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Why Might Good People Deliver Bad Care? | Yvonne Sawbridge | TEDxUniversityofBirmingham

Yvonne Sawbridge says that caring professionals offer hard, emotional work. In the same way in which physical labour is recognised and accounted for in management practice, emotional labour needs to be recognised as a role requirement for nurses and other caring professions.

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2015
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The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling

In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work," just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting.

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Arlie Russell Hochschild
2025
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