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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

Success

It wasn’t just any form of the disease, but a rare form of blood cancer known as anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. Widely regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time, Hogan won a total of 71 professional tournaments over the course of his career. Lester went to see doctors and heard words he never expected: He had cancer.

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How to Get Ahead at Work Without a College Degree

Eat Your Career

This isn’t true for all, of course, but it’s more common than you might realize.). There are many forms of education in this world; a college degree is only one—and it’s not even necessarily the best one in every circumstance. Because a college degree is a form of stagnant education. Of course, certifications are one option.

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Memories of the Office Age 

Workplace Insight

Over the course of three months, the building’s services begin to fail. New friendships have been formed and contact with others lost. In his 1975 novel High-Rise, the eponymous structure is both a way of isolating the group of people who live and compete inside it and a metaphor for their personal isolation and inner struggles.

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Jonathan Price Financial Expert | What Happened to WeWork?

Allwork

And you have known the industry for many years and you’ve seen some companies that haven’t fared so well and of course others that have. There was years ago a firm called Allwork.Space, which was formed as a roll up of other independent centers, but they crashed and burned, unfortunately.

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Thursday Morning & 20 Years of Celebrating You & Your Profession!

Office Dynamics

In 1999, Sailing Into the New Millennium: Charting Your Course to Peak Performance discussed anticipation of the millennium. Skipping to 2001, the conference centered on Don’t Gamble on Leading Your Team: Help Your Organization Maintain a Competitive Edge in the New Economy and was hosted in Las Vegas, NV.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: Do Online Classes Make Sense for.

On The Job

There was no chance to articulate ideas and help form ideas.” For example, Kaplan University started online classes with just 34 students in 2001, and now has 54,000 students participating in its online programs. Those interviewed for this story agree that online courses are better suited to the “older” student.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

Success

Among the initiatives that emerged from the exercise was a group formed to “[identify] and [support] sales and marketing strategies” that could be utilized to reach women- and minority-owned businesses. We need to stop thinking about diversity programs in the workplace as a form of affirmative action. As of 2019 , U.S. million) of U.S.

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