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How To Banish Procrastination Once And For All

Allwork

Surrounding yourself with others hard at work creates the right conditions for focus, reducing the inclination to check emails and go on social media. Surrounding yourself with others hard at work creates the right conditions for focus, reducing the inclination to check emails and go on social media.

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How to Break Up with Your Business Partner

Success

Simply lowering your voice—whether in decibels if you are communicating in person or in tone if using email or text—can make communication more civil. In 2005, I wanted to start my own firm and asked if he’d like to partner. “They will take sides, it will divide the company, and they will leave. You don’t want that,” she says.

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Time Spent on Social Networks Exploding; Email and IM Fading

Small Business Labs

  From the article: "the uptick in social networks led to the 28% and 15% declines in email and instant messaging, respectively." " But despite the declines, the death of email is greatly exaggerated.  of our online time on email and it's the most popular mobile phone application. 

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Could You Write a Book in a Month?

Success

In 2005 I was confident. I was spending more time managing how I felt about the writing than actually writing anything. I email a writer friend who tells me, without a doubt, “Do not write in first-person narrative. Wallowing in self-doubt had always derailed my writing process.

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Canadians Caught in Time Crunch

Ian's Messy Desk

Among the report’s key findings: The proportion of Canadians experiencing high levels of time crunch grew from 16% in 1992 to 20% in 2005. Teenagers 15-17 who had a meal on a typical day with their parents plunged from 64% in 1992 to 35% in 2005. Time spent on social leisure activities dropped from 15% in 1998 to 12% in 2005.

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Day in the life: Catherine Thomas, EA, Public Health Wales

Practically Perfect PA

I joined NHS Wales in 2005 and have been here ever since. March 2001 saw me heading back to the UK as a single mum with 2 young children and so started my career part 2. I worked and temped at various places in general administrator/secretarial roles until I found a job where I really felt I could make a difference.

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Seven reasons why your boss should use a chauffeur service

Practically Perfect PA

As we all know keeping our managers on track is at times a logistical nightmare. I’ve often seen (and have done this myself) PAs standing outside board rooms waiting for their manager’s meeting to finish so that they can escort them to the next meeting room so that the boss doesn’t get lost or side tracked.

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