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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning, This is Laura.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to The New Corner Office, the podcast where we

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Speaker 1: share strategies for thriving in the new world of work

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Speaker 1: where location and hours are more flexible than in the past.

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Speaker 1: This week I'll be sharing a few tips from my

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Speaker 1: new book called The New Corner Office. It's about how

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Speaker 1: the most successful people work from home productively and ambitiously.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to recognize that working from home is

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Speaker 1: a skill. Like most skills, people aren't very good at

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Speaker 1: it at first, but they get better with practice over time.

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Speaker 1: This is a reassuring realization on those days when you

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Speaker 1: feel like things just aren't working all that well. If

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Speaker 1: you've been working at home for decades, it's easy to

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Speaker 1: forget what it was like at first. When millions of

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Speaker 1: people began working from home for the first time in March,

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Speaker 1: in the wake of COVID nineteen, I went back to

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Speaker 1: look at some of my old musings from two thousand two.

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Speaker 1: That was when I first started working from home, and well,

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Speaker 1: I was kind of a wreck. I'd half work and

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Speaker 1: to learn to work in a self directed way and

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Speaker 1: to figure out how to work efficiently and create boundaries

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Speaker 1: without the normal structures and group norms of an office.

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Speaker 1: The proportion of American workers who had ever worked from

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Speaker 1: home literally doubled between mid March and early April. This

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Speaker 1: is millions of people. No wonder things were a little

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Speaker 1: awkward at first. Can you imagine if millions of people

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Speaker 1: decided to learn to play tennis or speak French overnight?

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Speaker 1: There would be a lot of really terrible tennis games

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Speaker 1: lot of really bad zoom meetings with people talking over

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Speaker 1: each other or worse. A friend of mine mentioned that

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Speaker 1: packed with other formal calls that work slowed considerably. Oh dear,

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing with skills. People aren't naturally good

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Speaker 1: or bad at them. You get better with time and practice.

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Speaker 1: This is exactly what happens with working from home. Through

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Speaker 1: I find this is a helpful mindset, both for ourselves

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Speaker 1: and when we're working with others. Working from home is

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Speaker 1: be a tool in your toolbox which you can pull

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Speaker 1: out when needed. So what have you learned as you've

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Speaker 1: been working from home? In what ways have you improved?

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Speaker 1: Celebrate these victories and be patient when you see where

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Speaker 1: others are on the learning curve. They will get there

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