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Choose to be Great, Not Mediocre

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Instead we played cards, read books and watched the Olympics. The first book on my list was Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged , which I’d read for college years ago. I wanted to reread the 1957 novel because it was being discussed as the presidential race heated up in August 2012. Choose not to be mediocre. Choose to be great.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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from 2012—while the growth of male-owned employer businesses during the same time period was only 5.2%. million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” Henderson, a self-taught thought leader with three honorary doctorates and nine books to her credit, “served on the U.S.

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Book Review: The Manufacturer's Book of Lists

Small Business Labs

As we pointed out in our 2012 article The Rise of Small and Micro Manufacturing , of the 330,000 U.S. Because there are so many new and small manufacturing firms, I was very excited to read the  The Manufacturer's Book of Lists  by small business expert Gene Marks. firms that make things.

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SUCCESS Celebrates 125 Years of Progress, Positive Thinking and Personal Growth

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In his teens, he came across the book Self-Help by Samuel Smiles. He connected deeply with the themes in the book and became a fervent follower of the New Thought movement, which was centered around self-determinism and positive thinking. A 1902 article was titled, “Should Wives Work?” It changed his life. Hill and W.

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4 Priorities To Consider When Designing Workplaces For Gen Z

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This article was written by M Moser’s Michelle Smith for Work Design Magazine. Born between 1997 and 2012, Gen Z is the first digitally native generation and is becoming the most diverse and educated. This article explores some of the overall trends we observe as new generations enter the workplace.

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Can Dopamine Dressing Make You Better At Your Job?

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She dives into the topic in her book, Dress Your Best Life. A 2012 study published by the University of Hertfordshire Press links “how clothing and mood don’t just influence others, it reflects and influences the wearer’s mood, too.” She says to first select a color you like and then decide how much of that color you’d like to wear.

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Annie Särnblad Wants to Teach You How to Read Facial Expressions—So You Can Get Ahead in Business

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with her family in 2012, her ability to code microexpressions allowed her to jump-start her career in strategic advising. That is, in part, why she wrote her book, Diary of a Human Lie Detector: Facial Expressions in Love, Lust, and Lies , which came out in September. When she moved back to the U.S.