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Mar 2023
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#553: Is Calling Your Team Your “Family”...

Amy Porterfield
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According to Harvard Business Review, there are toxic effects of branding your workplace a “family” Have you ever worked for a company and part of the internal culture was for team members to call each other ‘family?’ I know I have – and until very recently, I never really put a whole lot of thought into it. To be honest, I always looked at it as something p ... Show More
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