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Advancing Women in Tech: Executive Nancy Wang’s Forward-Thinking Nonprofit

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As director and general manager, the 33-year-old is the youngest person to serve at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Data Protection’s executive level. She also founded, in 2016, a nonprofit membership organization , Advancing Women in Tech, which “accelerates careers and addresses diversity gaps in leadership.” So you treat them the same.

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10 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get Things Done

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Proactive goal achievement means taking every project and cutting it up into bite-sized pieces. Using this method, the goal becomes manageable. Set your wake-up time a half hour earlier tomorrow and keep the clock at that setting. Seek out and converse with a successful role model and mentor. So it is with prioritizing.

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Representation Matters: 5 Tips for Creating a Business Worth Supporting

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When Robert Hartwell first launched The Broadway Collective , a musical theater academy, in 2016, he worked at the kitchen table with his assistant. How to build a company that reflects your values To Hartwell, showing up for these communities means building a company that reflects his values of representation and diversity. “If

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Change Is Hard—Here’s How to Influence People to Get on the Same Page

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But he is staying up late reworking problems and the math just isn’t making sense to him. The answer might be training or online tutorials, or a mentor or coach working alongside them for a few weeks. One of my clients recently changed her group from behind-the-scenes experts and process managers to become client-facing.

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Why Success Doesn’t Mean You’re Living a Fulfilled Life

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In a study by the Metrus Institute , nearly every respondent harbored a desire to become fulfilled—to reach a state of long-term happiness and conscientiously live up to his or her potential. But then Ted got the call from his father to return to the business because they needed someone who was smart enough to manage a product line.

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How to Build a Library Worth Having

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My mentor, Earl Shoaff, got me started on mine. Here’s a mindset to guide you as you begin: Your library needs to show that you’re a serious student of life, health, spirituality, culture, uniqueness, sophistication, economics, prosperity, productivity, sales, management, skills and values of all kinds. Think and Grow Rich.

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What Kind of Leader Are You: A Fixer, Fighter or Friend?

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When you’re in charge, your opinion simply takes up more space than that of others, whether you intend it to or not. Describing your team as a family also sets up a very confusing mixed reality because you can’t fire a member of your family, but you absolutely have to be able to fire an employee who isn’t pulling their weight.

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