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Lawyers Have Worked in Amazon-Style Conditions For Decades
Over the last several weeks, many have learned of the workplace experiences of white collar workers at Amazon. How they cry at their desks. How they are given little time off even when sick, or to...
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When Firing Yourself From an Account Is the Right Move
Image by George Redgrave via Flickr Conventional wisdom may suggest keeping any client that will happily pay you. But when we do that, we capitalize on short-term opportunity and forgo building a...
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5 Benefits of Self Employment
There are quite a few benefits when it comes to being your own boss, but the financial benefits are usually not top of mind. They're generally included pretty far down on the list, after thinking about...
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Weekend Roundup: Refugees Redefine Europe
America was once regarded as a welcoming immigrant nation where races and religions mingle freely, a geo-cultural therapy for history's wounded masses who could leave their woes behind once they...
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How to Get Rich Slowly
Do you want to be a Millionaire? Sure you do, why not.  $1,000,000 is a nice amount of money - even at 5% interest in retirement, it's enough to drop $50,000 into your bank account each year to...
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How to Really Listen in a Difficult Conversation (6.2)
"Our first reaction to most of the statements we hear from other people is an immediate evaluation, or judgment, rather than an understanding of it. When someone expresses some feeling or attitude or...
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How to Inquire Productively (6.3)
"Make him right before you make him wrong." Productive inquiry is a way to learn about your colleague's reasoning. It helps him express what he's thinking, but more importantly, it allows him to share...
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How to Express Your Truth with Honesty and Respect (6.4)
"When two noted family therapists examined couples in the throes of heated discussions, they noted that people fall into three categories, those who digress into threats and name-calling, those who...
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How to Invite Inqiury (6.5)
"It takes two to tango, but only one to avoid a fight" No matter how skillfully you express your view, if your counterpart disagrees he may oppose it immediately. This can start a conflict in which...
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Coaching: Conscious Performance Improvement: A Mutual Learning Conversation...
"There's no such thing as constructive feedback." Giving negative feedback to a valuable team member is one of the conversations managers most dread. There are risks in the three essentials dimensions...
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5 Incredible Reasons We Are Petrified of Cold Calling and Overcoming Them in...
If you start looking around, you will soon realize that there are at least a few hundreds books available on cold calling. Leave aside training courses, magazine articles, CD's, hypnotic programs and...
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Why I Quit a Madison Avenue Career and Never Looked Back
"What? You quit a New York City advertising career? And one that was on Madison Avenue -- the Madison Avenue -- of all places?" Indeed I did. I chose to leave my first job after college; I wasn't let...
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The Fed's Party -- All Dressed Up
What if you gave a party and no one showed up? That's a social nightmare. And it might become the Fed's problem. After months and months of waiting for the Fed to raise interest rates, what if it...
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Mo. Legislature Must Remember Workers While Mulling RTW Veto Override
Corporations, not satisfied enough with their sky-high profits, are trying yet again to rally Missouri lawmakers in an attempt to override the veto of Gov. Jay Nixon and pass so-called right-to-work...
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Trickle Down Failure Leads to Anarchy in the UK - Who's Next?
Fake it 'till you make it.That's the credo of the World Economy these days as we're in year 7 of doing NOTHING to actually fix the economic crisis other than throw endless amounts of money at the...
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Don't Be One of the 7 Types of Failed Thought Leader
How can I become a thought leader? originally appeared on Quora: The best answer to any question.Answer by Christian Bonilla, blogger and software designer, on Quora: Among the most unfortunate side...
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Fiduciary or Suitability? SecureFamily or Not So Secure?
I have recently seen a spate of advertisements from "Securefamily.org." that attempts to discredit the work being done on pending fiduciary rules and regulations. Since the advertising dialogue, in my...
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Culture Creates the Economics of Innovation
Independent thinkers have a way of upsetting people. Economics Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps is a good example. Progressives take issue with his scrupulous analysis of government stimulus spending...
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Escape Your '9 to 5': Have a Clear Action Plan
Each and every day I come across so many entrepreneurs that have successfully made the leap from employee to boss. For each one that has successfully made the leap there is one that made the leap only...
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Digital Wallets, 3D Printing, Mobile Banking Just the Beginning
Our world today faces more pressing challenges to sustainable development than ever in the history of humankind. The sheer number of people on the planet requiring access to food, clean water and...
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