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Rules of Thumb for Minding Your Manners In The Workplace From ethics columnist and Harvard lecturer Jeffrey L. Seglin, discover practical tips for succeeding professionally by succeeding socially. Practicing business etiquette doesn't mean pretending to be someone you're not. Brimming with practical, up-to-date tips on minding your business manners, The Simple Art of Business Etiquette guides you through the tricky territory of office etiquette with real-life stories and workplace scenarios. Become attuned to body language (Don't gawk at others during meetings or at any other time. It's creepy.) Engage in thoughtful introductions (Don't guess at someone's name if you don't remember it.) Practice proper e-mail etiquette (Do you really want to be the jerk who sends annoying e-mails around the office?) Curtail office conflicts (Never punch anyone in the workplace.
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Jeffrey L. Seglin writes "The Right Thing," a weekly column on general ethics syndicated by the Tribune Media Services (www.jeffreyseglin.com) . In the column, he regularly offers solutions to ethical dilemmas posed by readers. If you have ethical questions that you need answered, send them to rightthing@comcast.net.Seglin is the author of The Simple Art of Business Etiquette: How to Rise to the Top By Playing Nice (Tycho Press, 2016) .He is also the author of The Right Thing: Conscience, Profit and Personal Responsibility in Today's Business . It was named as one of the "Best Business Books of 2003" by the Library Journal. It is a collection of the first four years of "The Right Thing," which until January 2004 had been a monthly business ethics column he wrote for the Sunday New York Times Money and Business pages since 1998. From 2004 until 2010, "The Right Thing" was syndicated weekly by The New York Times Syndicate. It moved to Tribune Media in 2010. Seglin is also the author of The Good, the Bad, and Your Business: Choosing Right When Ethical Dilemmas Pull You Apart.Seglin is a senior lecturer in public policy and director of the communications program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He previously was an associate professor at Emerson College and director of its graduate program in publishing and writing. He is an ethics fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and was a resident fellow at the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard in 1998-99.He lectures widely on business ethics and other topics including sessions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Virginia Commonwealth University, Duke Corporate Education, and elsewhere.He is the author or co-author on more than a dozen books on ethics, business and writing. He has written for publications including the New York Times, Fortune, FSB, Salon.com, Time.com, Sojourners, MIT's Sloan Management Review, Harvard Management Update, Business 2.0, ForbesASAP, CIO, CFO, MBA Jungle, among others. He regularly contributes commentaries to Public Radio's Marketplace.Prior to 1998, he was an executive editor at Inc magazine. He began working at the magazine as a senior editor in 1989.He holds a masters degree in theological studies from The Divinity School at Harvard University.He is married to Nancy Seglin, a therapist, and is the father of two adult children and four grandchildren. His website is www.jeffreyseglin.com
