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If you want to be a loved and appreciated employee in your company, it is advisable that you plan your leaves out. Yes there are some emergencies (hangover being not one of them) where you can cut out, but as said, it is not advisable. Well that is on the one hand, but what happens if you are on a vacation(planned one!) but you happen to work in LinkedIn and during that time its CEO Jeff Weiner plans to pay your team a visit. Seeing people like him in person is something that doesn't happens a lot, even for employees at LinkedIn. What would you do if you are working there and happen to be on a vacation while he visits? How cool can you really be? Mariah Walton, Analytics Manager at the business and employment-oriented social networking service LinkedIn, "accidentally" scheduled he...

In case you haven’t been paying attention, many tech stocks are under serious pressure. LinkedIn, where I have been an executive for nearly six years, is one of those companies, having lost more than 40% of our value after announcing our 2015 earnings and guidance for 2016 last Thursday. As you can imagine, this has the potential to cause angst and churn, both internally and externally, and over the last week, I’ve been fascinated by the varied reactions of people, both inside and outside the company, with whom I’ve interacted: indignant, perplexed, resilient, full of pity, inspired and shell-shocked. When something like this happens at a company, you can witness very extreme, and often negative, reactions from people like the CEO and CFO, who can get into a blame game and create a c...

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How To Apologize For Your Emergency Vacation And Be Cool About It!