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We're All in This Together: How Subsidized Gulf Carriers Threaten the U.S....
For the past several months, the Obama administration has been considering a trade dispute with important implications for all 50 states. The massively subsidized, state-owned airlines of Emirates,...
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3 Reasons Tough Interviews Are Good for You
If you've interviewed for a job lately, you may have noticed that the process has gotten longer and more difficult than it once was. In 2010, the average length of the job interview process was 12.6...
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Are You Creating Just Another Plain Vanilla Business? These 10 Questions Will...
Half a million businesses. That's how many businesses start up each month, according to statistics. Here's the real gut-punch truth: More businesses shutdown than startup each month. The failure rate...
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Are You Creating Just Another Plain Vanilla Business? These 10 Questions Will...
Half a million businesses. That's how many businesses start up each month, according to statistics. Here's the real gut-punch truth: More businesses shutdown than startup each month. The failure rate...
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Direct Trade Is Fair Trade (Without the Other Eight Principles)
I regularly look at product labels because that is part of my job. So when I come across a label that says Direct Trade, or even "Direct Trade Certified," I have to wonder why a brand would compel...
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Hiring the 'Hidden Heroes' Behind our Veterans
Last month, I spoke at the Supporting Military Caregivers at Work and at Home Conference featuring the Honorable Elizabeth Dole (in conjunction with the "Hiring Our Heroes" initiative by the U.S....
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6 Ways Remote Employees Crush Office Cube-Dwellers
I have a friend named Whitney (name changed) who was once a cube-dweller. And I do not mean she lived in a modern, ergonomic-style home. On the contrary, her house was beautiful and vibrant. But each...
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The People Rejected Keystone XL
Four years ago, on a hot August night in 2011, a few dozen people gathered in a church in Washington, D.C preparing to get arrested. It was the eve of Tar Sands Action, two weeks of sit-ins that we'd...
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How to Time-Track Your Way to Better Productivity
We live in an entrepreneurial time, where productivity, efficiency, and working from home are not only ideals and goals, but they're crucial to business' success. Gone are the days of riding the time...
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Half Our Potential: Failing Forward, Women and Entrepreneurship
The term failure is often treated like a 4-letter word -- one that would make your grandparent's blush. No one wants their children to be failures when they grow up any more than a mentor wants their...
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3 Tools to Grow Your Local Business Online
Starting an online local business isn't easy. You've got to build your website from the ground up, fill it with content, check for technical glitches and ultimately, launch it to the public. And the...
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Weekend Roundup: The Audacity of the Chinese Dream
BEIJING -- The title of U.S. President Barack Obama's pre-presidential biography is "The Audacity of Hope." Chinese President Xi Jinping has written his own document released this week -- The Communist...
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Wells Fargo Wants to Let You Make Million-Dollar Wire Transactions with Your...
"My voice gives me access to proceed, please verify me," I announced to the phone in my hand. It scanned my face to see if my lips were moving. I then read aloud series of numbers. The voiceprint was a...
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Who Stands with Workers?
Senate cafeteria workers serve food to the most august politicians, to their staffers, their Gucci-shoed lobbyists and to Senate visitors. Yet they don't earn close to a living wage. Those who work...
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15 Critical Habits of Mentally Tough People
We all reach critical points in our lives where our mental toughness is tested. It might be a toxic friend or colleague, a dead-end job, or a struggling relationship. Whatever the challenge, you have...
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12 Things Truly Confident People Do Differently
Confidence takes many forms, from the arrogance of Floyd Mayweather to the quiet self-assurance of Jane Goodall. True confidence--as opposed to the false confidence people project to mask their...
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The 9 Worst Mistakes You Can Ever Make at Work
We've all heard of (or seen firsthand) people doing some pretty crazy things at work. Truth is, you don't have to throw a chair through a window or quit in the middle of a presentation to cause...
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How to Ace the 50 Most Common Interview Questions
Most people's biggest job-hunting fear is being put on the spot by oddball interview questions such as these (which are real): "Describe the color yellow to someone who's blind." - Spirit Airlines "If...
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Will Your Interview Answers Get You Hired?
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook, describes his hiring process this way:"I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work directly for that person." Zuckerberg's comment...
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Telltale Signs It's Time To Quit Your Job
If you're like most people, you spend more of your valuable waking hours at work than you do anywhere else. It's critical that you spend your time at the right company, pursuing the right opportunity....
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