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1. www.cnn.com › 2011/09/12 › livingWomen, swearing and the workplace | CNN

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   Sep 12, 2011 · Ousted Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is known for her liberal use of profanity in the workplace. Getty Images. CNN — It’s not every day you read about one top-level executive asking another where his...

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3. www.forbes.com › sites › shenegotiatesThe Case for Cursing - Forbes

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   Sep 16, 2011 · CEO Carol Bartz started quite a little firestorm by using the F-word when she was so rudely Fired. That curse and Bartz's subsequent inquiry to Yahoo ... People Who Swear and the Positive ...

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4. hbr.org › 2011 › 12Why You Really Shouldn’t Curse at Work (Much)

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   Dec 27, 2011 · December 27, 2011. The media brouhaha over Carol Bartz’s coarse language in the wake of her firing was telling. Rather than responsibly assessing her merits as the chief executive of Yahoo!,...

5. www.inc.com › women-in-business › 2009Use Your Words: Is it OK to Swear at Work? | Inc.com

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   I found that the newly appointed CEO of Yahoo! Carol Bartz is no stranger to a potty mouth. She told her staff at a company meeting that she'd "dropkick to f-ing Mars" anyone who was leaking ...

6. www.nbcnews.com › business › business-newsThe Bottom Line: Does Profuse Swearing Make a Company Perform ...

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   Nov 18, 2016 · One of the most famous examples was from Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo in 2009, who criticized the company for having too many management employees compared to engineers. Bartz immediately...

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7. qz.com › 242637The complete guide to swearing at work - Quartz

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   Aug 24, 2014 · The ever-exuberant Carol Bartz. Image: Reuters/Robert Galbraith. A Bloomberg analysis of corporate conference calls over the past decade found that CEO cursing spiked after the 2009...

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   Is workplace swearing cool?

   • Here’s why: Modern media tell us that workplace swearing is cool. Take Martin Scorsese’s latest movie, The Wolf of Wall Street, whose brash yet professionally successful characters dropped 506 f-bombs, a record for a feature film.

   The complete guide to swearing at work - Quartz

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   Is swearing a bad thing in the workplace?

   • The language-scrubbing died down as the recording of speeches and interviews became commonplace. Physical violence is never the right answer in the workplace, no matter how bad things get. But in certain contexts, the occasional swear word can be an effective way to manage frustration and diffuse tension.

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   Can swear words make a 'emotional wallop'?

   • T-Mobile’s John Legere working his audience. Using swear words at choice moments can produce an “emotional wallop” that’s missing in tamer words, Robert Sutton, an organizational psychologist at Stanford University and the author of The No Asshole Rule, told NPR .

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   Is swearing a good coping mechanism?

   • But in certain contexts, the occasional swear word can be an effective way to manage frustration and diffuse tension. Research has even found that unleashing a cathartic bout of expletives can reduce physical pain, so long as you do it sparingly (the more you swear, the less effective profanity becomes as a coping mechanism).

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9. www.bbc.com › worklife › articleSwearing at work might be good for your career - BBC

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   Aug 3, 2016 · Executives like Yahoo’s former CEO Carol Bartz and T-Mobile’s current CEO John Legere have both happily and publicly dropped the f-bomb. Even US President Barack Obama famously said he was...