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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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3 Companies That Give Back to the Community Year-Round

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The duo started asking questions and volunteering and eventually founded their business in 2013. If you’re treating it as a project, that’s the way it’s going to seem to your employees and the public,” he says. “You have to be the kind of person that reacts to that information in a certain way… Pretty much our first reaction was, ‘Why?’

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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Formula information and testing data are transparent and accessible, and its scientific board includes researchers from the National Institutes of Health’s Human Microbiome Project. Most Innovative Travel Company 5. Photo cred: courtesy of Travel Environmental Most Innovative Company in Beauty 6. Fast forward to now, and No.

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8 Ways to Avoid Pointless Meetings

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Greg Smith, a software business consultant, says if speed is of the essence, you may need to bring in more people to get a project moving quickly. Smith is a disciple of agile project management, a standard among software development firms. However, in the normal course of business, smaller is better. Make meetings uncomfortable.

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Follow the Science: Ze Frank Teaches Us True Facts and Life Lessons

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If you knew him only from his trailblazing forays into the video blogging realm, where he was renowned for quirky, crowdsourced art projects, you might not guess that the career of Hosea Frank (Ze for short, pronounced “zay”) has been bookended by scientific roles. They’d misheard his birth name as José. No problem. And so, back to science.

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Assistants as information managers

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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. In 2013, many assistants still sat in silos in their office. We are our office information managers!

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The 2013 Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide

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The Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide for 2013 may be a long read, but it may just spark some gift ideas you hadn''t considered. That means the recipient of this gift will never be at a loss for what to capture ideas, goals, projects, tasks, or sketchnotes in. I did a lot of traveling this year, and the Grid-It came in handy.

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