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But also managers or mentors to just sit back, put the phone down, put it away, don’t even bring it to the meeting and listen.
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Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2025
My natural reaction has been to defend my work rather than listen openly.
—Marco Buscaglia, Boston Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
This puts you in a better position to first listen and then guide employees to resources better equipped to help them.
—Maria Ross, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
To listen to these recordings, to go back as far as the turn of the century, to the beginning of recorded sound to the present is to hear points in a timeline, to time travel.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025
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Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2025
My natural reaction has been to defend my work rather than listen openly.
—Marco Buscaglia, Boston Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
This puts you in a better position to first listen and then guide employees to resources better equipped to help them.
—Maria Ross, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
To listen to these recordings, to go back as far as the turn of the century, to the beginning of recorded sound to the present is to hear points in a timeline, to time travel.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025
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Beyond the novelty aspect of hearing an entire album played live that’s never been heard onstage, Ball feels there’s a reason Exposure still resonates.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
2 May 2025
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Now, McIlroy says that his daughter had one thought after hearing the loud cheers from the crowd.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
2 May 2025
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“Listen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/listen. Accessed 10 May. 2025.
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