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4 Lessons Ultra-Athletes Can Teach Us About Grit—In Life and Business

Success

To achieve that pinnacle of mental toughness, Darcy Piceu, a licensed psychotherapist, 20-year veteran professional ultrarunner and two-time UTMB winner (3rd in 2011 and 5th in 2015), suggests breaking down your goals into manageable chunks and using simple management tools like a calendar to keep the momentum going. “I Ask for help.

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Networking best practices for assistants

Practically Perfect PA

Networking is really important. We are behind the scenes specialists, we are not encouraged to put ourselves out there and even if we did want to get involved in a networking event we are often too busy to leave the office. The problem is networking is really important. Which networking events to attend.

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Inside the Edinburgh PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

One of the reasons I started Practically Perfect PA back in 2011 was because I wanted to create an online community for assistants. A place to come, learn and realise that there was at least one other PA that felt the same way you did and was facing the same every day issues you were (and some of the triumphs too!) It is brilliant!

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

Why you should (or shouldn’t) work with freelancers After learning about Fishkin’s past hiring experiences, we decided to do our own analysis on the subject — comparing full-time marketing employees to outsourced agency and freelance talent. There are a couple ways to go about this. That’s why we recommend an onboarding checklist. Her secret?

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One way to create cooler, cleaner megacities: Plant rooftop gardens!

Ideas.Ted

From 2015 to 2017, Egypt borrowed $1.03 It is now launching new projects in Upper Egypt and a website called the “Urban Greens’ Network,” which it hopes will inspire more Egyptian city dwellers to begin gardening. “We Watch the full TED-Ed lesson to learn more: billion from China to finance infrastructure projects.

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A day in the life: Amanda Barlow, Senior EA, PZ Cussons

Practically Perfect PA

Setting up The Manchester PA Network in 2011 is without doubt my career highlight and the thing I am most proud of. The idea came from spending all of my time organising networking events for others, yet never going to any myself. Since 2011, I have watched it grow from a small group of 50, to nearly 500 members in 2015.

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How Tribridge is Growing Its Own Talent

On The Job

study found 80,000 jobs were added worldwide from January 2010 to January 2011 at 11 companies where cloud operations are a significant part of their business. Further, mobile application downloads are estimated to reach 98 billion by the end of 2015. A recent Sand Hill Group and SAP American Inc. Why such a demand?

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