For employers who are having a hard time managing a friend, Shepard, the management consultant, suggests asking yourself this: How would I handle the situation if the employee wasn't a friend?

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Its new friend, Xiangcai Hefeng, has agreed to the maximum in the fund-management sector.

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One friend said she and her husband, a vice president at a wealth-management firm, ran into a similar discussion when they were refinishing their basement several years ago.

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Unfortunately, my friend Harry was not able to find another job in ANY type of sales or management position.

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She is a management consultant brought up in a middle-class suburb of Montreal who a friend has described as "one of the boys".

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"Amazing articles of clothing can really help in terms of time management, " Fu says as she slips on a pair of flats before heading to meet a friend at CoHo, a Stanford University coffeehouse.

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There is presently no Andean-FRIEND and the concomitant establishment of A-GMN and Andean-FRIEND was judged to be the most opportune method of developing an integrated glaciological and hydrological program for regional monitoring and management use in a region where snow and ice reserves are such an important part of water resources.

UNESCO: Valdivia, Chile, 2003