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Angelos Michalopoulos and Vassiliki Petridou Own a Third of Ios Island in Greece—Here’s Why They Won’t Develop More than 1% of It

Success

During a family vacation to the island of Ios in Greece, they decided to embark on what Michalopoulos refers to as an experiment with owning and preserving land. In 2004, the couple began purchasing land before opening Agalia hotel and Calilo resort in 2016 and 2019, respectively.

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Cynthia Breazeal Is Making AI Fun and Educational for Kids

Success

In 2004, she published her seminal book, Designing Sociable Robots , which presented her vision for social robots of the future. With more than two decades of experience in AI, American robotics scientist and entrepreneur Cynthia Breazeal, Ph.D. , Breazeal later co-founded Jibo , a company that developed personal assistant robots in 2012.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

With a passion for “building the green, clean, knowledge-rich future,” she founded her company, Ethical Markets Media LLC , in 2004, when she was 72. “I Office of Technology Assessment, the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Engineering Committee on Public Engineering Policy,” according to her website.

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Annual List Building Plan – Explained In 3 Simple Steps

Office Organization Success

So when I first started purposefully list building (back in 2004), I would try all of these different list building strategies … and none of them really worked! And that’s why I refer to this layer as Fast Lead Generators — more subscribers in a shorter amount of time. Well, they didn’t work consistently, anyway.

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How to take better notes with Speed Writing

BMT Office Administration

It also gives you something to reference later if you need to study the information, send out meeting notes, or verify the instructions that you were given. For example, BakerWrite is a speed writing system that was created by Heather Baker in 2004. Include these new words in your notebook for reference.

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Spring Cleaning

Loosely Speaking

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Spring Cleaning Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 1:07 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Cleanup Knitter , Life of the Virtual Assistant After referring to self as “Cleanup Knitter&# in my last post, it felt as though I should work a little harder to earn that title. Loose Ends.

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Could Your Name Prompt Hiring Bias?

On The Job

Milkman says that minorities and women seeking jobs or perhaps a promotion or big project need to make sure that decision-makers understand their qualifications, they play up their references, and “you leave as little question to your abilities as possible.” We just need to educate about all the pathway moments,” she says.

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