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Why Your Spa Therapist Isn't Selling You Products
The last time that you visited a spa did the therapist recommend a retail product to you? If your spa's retail area is fairly extensive they probably should have. Even if you had a massage. Making a...
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Lean In, Fall Flat:Why Young Women Still Stumble at Work
I did everything right. I soaked up my mom's feminist ideals. I read Lean In. I chose to attend a women's college. I minored in women's leadership (Literally. As a scholar at Barnard's Athena Center...
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Size Matters? How the Business Case for CSR Can Apply to Any Company, No...
By N. Craig Smith Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is largely associated with big companies. They are more high profile, attract more media attention and are concerned about protecting and...
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Why is Everyone Publishing a Book These Days?
If you haven't noticed that the "publish-or-perish" phenomenon has moved from academia to the general population, you haven't been paying attention. My chiropractor is writing a book on nutrition. So...
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Top 18 Home Automation Companies Who Will Run Your Home
The home automation space is poised to continue growing in 2015 and beyond. There are more companies and investors behind these companies that want entry into your home to make it smarter, more...
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Construction Success
When it comes to construction projects, all too often people start out with pretty drawings and end up with shouting matches or - worse - expensive lawsuits. Your project may be steel and concrete. But...
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Why These 11 Noteworthy Millennials and I Are Proud to Represent 'The Worst...
A trait in this world that has long outlived its usefulness to our survival as a species is to judge and condemn anything that is different or challenges our current beliefs and way of living. To put...
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Weed Out Unwanted Email
My email box looks like a garden overgrown with weeds. Despite vigilant efforts to throw the cyber-equivalent of Round-Up on those unwanted subscriptions to newsletters about construction equipment,...
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How to Get What You Need at Work
Image: markus spiske, flickr What do you need to meet or exceed expectations? If you're not being handed what you need, and who is, it's your job to ask for it. Oh the intimidation of asking for what...
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Dr. Peter Gregory: Go Out of Your Comfort Zone and Don't Be Afraid of Repetition
This is part of the #CareerAdvice series - featuring successful professionals who share their advice to people who would want to take their career to the next level. In the past Career Advice series,...
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Life After Bankruptcy: When and How Your Business Can Get Its Financial...
When you're in the trenches of a financial failure, filing for bankruptcy can feel like the end of the world. Your business has failed. You may feel like your career is over, like your life is ruined....
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The Myth and Reality of Your Organization's Culture
"We don't do that stuff." "What stuff?" I inquired to the person in the next seat. Truthfully, I knew what he meant. I had just responded to his question about what I do with my standard elevator...
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We Need to Help Poor Farmers Prepare for Climate Change -- Starting Now
A few years ago, Melinda and I visited a group of rice farmers in Bihar, India, one of the most flood-prone regions of the country. All of them were extremely poor and depended on the rice they grew...
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Happy 25th Birthday to the Chief Learning Officer (CLO)
Organizational titles have changed over the years and new ones have emerged like that of Chief Learning Officer (CLO) in response to the challenges and opportunities within the global business...
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FirstImpression is Changing the Online Advertising Industry Forever
IÂ sat down with Roy Peleg, CEO and Almog Even, Chief Web Officer of FirstImpression, a company which began in Israel, and one that specializes in ad placement and offers a revolutionary solution for...
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Why Do So Many Gen Zers Seem to Lack That Old-Fashioned 'Critical Thinking?'
Why are today's young people (those of Gen Z, born 1990-1999,) not better at "thinking on their feet" -- learning, problem solving, and decision making in their own heads without a device? What...
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When the Unbalanced Life Is Worth Living
There's been an unexpected fallout from the New York Times' recent critique of Amazon's corporate culture: the ACLU followed up the story with a $30,000 full page ad in the Seattle Times soliciting...
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Building Your Child's Credit History
Copyright: snejana moos via Shutterstock As back-to-school season is wrapping up, many parents have equipped their kids with the supplies they will need for the upcoming year. However, many have likely...
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12 Quick and Effective Tips to Resolve Work Place Conflict
1.Maintain your cool. Thomas Jefferson said: "Nothing gives one so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." Many times work place conflict is...
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Ready to Ditch the Training Wheels?
It had been another really long day. After a night of broken sleep, I had worked through the morning and was headed into an afternoon of meetings. Then the call from daycare came. My infant son was...
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