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How Deesha Philyaw Built Her Writing Career From the Ground Up—and Landed a 7-Figure Book Deal

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There’s actually a format for how you query an agent and what you send and what you don’t send and when you send it.” The co-parenting book came out in 2013,” she says. She called them that—I didn’t really notice the through line between them.” Like many career writers, Philyaw started out as a freelancer.

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Free Coaching Call: October 2013

Eat Your Career

How to mentor and coach people you don’t manage. The post Free Coaching Call: October 2013 appeared first on Eat Your Career. And don’t worry; there’s another call coming up in the near future. Here are just a few of the topics we discussed: How to prepare for a performance review. How to get a promotion. Listen Here.

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Where Passion Meets Purpose: How to Find a Job You Love

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But he didn’t always imagine having that career. Keep your options open to find a job you love Stanglein realized in 2013 that his career in higher education was going to have a shelf-life, and began considering a change. Here are a few tips on how to marry your passion and purpose.

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Discover the Formula for Happy Employees

Success

Months before his death in 2005, he told me that happiness was too big of a word, but that people who were satisfied and contented tended to, as he put it, ‘live in more than one world,’” says Bruce Rosenstein, who published his second Drucker-inspired book, Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way , in 2013. In a 2013 e-book, Got A Bad Boss?

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Will Pilotworks Become the WeWork of Shared Commercial Kitchens?

Small Business Labs

These spaces also offer training, events, mentoring and access to food specific networking activities.  And so far at least, there hasn't been a successful makerspace chain.  .  These are spaces where bakers, caterers and other food entrepreneurs can rent, often by the hour, commercial grade kitchen space.

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6 Ways To Feast On Learning

Office Dynamics

I decided to pull out this Monday Motivator from 2013 because it is a favorite of mine, still holds true and in fact, I believe it to be truer than ever before. Since I wrote this in 2013, I have expanded my mind to the worlds of: Focus instead of multitasking. What don’t you like that they do or say? Being revolutionary.

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Invest in Interpersonal Skills Development is Important but Few Plan to Invest in Them

Office Dynamics

June 19, 2013 / PRNewswire / -- Executives say it takes strong soft skills to move up the corporate ladder, but few firms provide training in this area, a new Accountemps survey finds. Don''t know/no answer. Their responses: 2013. Don''t know/no answer. MENLO PARK, Calif., Their responses: Poor interpersonal skills.

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