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Why Traveling the World Is the Best Investment in Yourself

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This is what we do: My husband monitors travel sites and email subscription services for super-cheap flights or error fares. Sometimes one of us travels for work and the other tags along. With us, travel is always interesting. Of course, the investment in travel goes well beyond money. I am not a flexible person.

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Assistants as information managers

Practically Perfect PA

Back in 2013 HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland released the Management Assistant 2020 report , which detailed how the role of an Assistant will change by 2020. One of the predictions centred around the idea that Assistants would become information managers in their organisations.

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What can assistants expect in 2013

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Well 2012 is over and done with and we are now already two days into 2013. In honour of it now being 2013 I´ve got 13 things I think we can expect to see in the year ahead. With the assistant role now encompassing so many varied tasks we should expect to see a rise in training for assistants in 2013. Role diversification.

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Chaya Milchtein Empowers Women by Educating Them About Cars

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I was aging out of foster care—it was 2013, and I was pretty desperate to find a job,” she explains. Even though she experienced success at her job and was promoted to service manager, she wasn’t interested in moving up the corporate ladder—since she would then no longer work with “real car owners.”

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8 Ways to Avoid Pointless Meetings

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meetings (totaling 18 hours) per week,” numbers which increase as “management level and number of direct reports increases.” Additionally, non-management employees reported that only 11.9 How can business owners and managers turn around the proverbial time-suck? A 2022 Otter.ai The same Otter.ai So what can you do? Just say no.

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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

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Arlan Hamilton, founder and managing partner, says, “ We invest in the very best founders who identify as women, people of color or LGBT in the United States. Funding startups by underestimated entrepreneurs is the mission of Backstage Capital. I personally identify as all three.”

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On My Travels Again

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I’m on my travels again. I’ve been hearing LOTS of talk this week about plans for 2013. So this week, I’m sharing with you a behind-the-scenes peek into how I’m managing the final few weeks of 2012. This week I hosted a live, virtual workshop, How To Put Your Follow-Up on Autopilot Using Autoresponders.

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