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8 Ways to Avoid Pointless Meetings

Success

Smith is a disciple of agile project management, a standard among software development firms. Thought leader Nilofer Merchant got a lot of buzz in 2013 for her TED Talk extolling the virtues of the walking meeting. This article was published in April 2014 and has been updated. Make meetings uncomfortable.

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Ten Small Business Trends You Need to Embrace in 2015

Tips From T. Marie

This week we will say goodbye to 2014 and welcome a new year. You can no longer deny the benefits of cloud services like document storage, subscription based cloud software services and virtual office space with shared project management. Most of them were business trends for 2014 as well. Some were there in 2013 too.

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Feeling unappreciated?

Practically Perfect PA

I’d been thinking about running an event way back in 2013 but I was too busy with other things (living in a foreign country, starting a new job and juggling Practically Perfect PA) to really do anything with the ideas I had. Skip forward to summer 2014 and the voices in my head were pretty vocal about running some sort of event.

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Inside the Edinburgh PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

Amy : I am currently an Executive Assistant at Skyscanner to the CTO, Director Engineering, Director of Project Management and the Director of HR. Sherien : Being awarded the PA Executive Magazine/Hays Award ‘1 st runner up for the PA Newcomer of the Year’ 2013 Award was an amazing achievement for me.

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My 2015 Year in Review (and How a Journal Made It Easy to Do)

Productivityist

So around this time I committed to using two tools for task and project management. I took part in my first “vertical” beer tasting when my friend Tony invited me and another friend Jeff over to his place to try Driftwood Old Cellar Dwellar from the 2012, 2013, and 2014 bottles.

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My 2015 Year in Review (and How a Journal Made It Easy to Do)

Productivityist

So around this time I committed to using two tools for task and project management. I took part in my first “vertical” beer tasting when my friend Tony invited me and another friend Jeff over to his place to try Driftwood Old Cellar Dwellar from the 2012, 2013, and 2014 bottles.

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