Informed by 10 years of Harvard research and field-tested by more than 6, 000 clients and trainees, Melnick offers the following strategies to take your work stress down a peg, before it takes over your life.

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Their clients are mostly in the semiconductor field and include Xilinx and Broadcom in the U.S. and Chartered Semiconductor in Singapore.

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They went down the list of Equinix clients, narrowed the field to three or four providers and selected one.

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By keeping the appointments to the phone, clients and coaches can stay on an even playing field, and judgments about appearances don't get in the way, he says.

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The field is so competitive that having these degrees gives a comfort level to prospective clients and elevates a young person above others.

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In glossy brochures and seminars, New Life sells itself as "one of the foremost leaders in the estate planning field" and offers commissions--typically 6% , but sometimes more--if clients sign up for its charitable gift annuities.

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We use a field-tested methodology with our clients that is supported by a proprietary analytic model for forecasting population and income distribution annually through 2020 in urban and rural China.

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