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Uber Unveils Flying Taxi Prototype

Small Business Labs

Uber unveiled a flying taxi eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) prototype at its recent  Elevate conference.   Uber is planning on starting limited air taxi service in Dallas and Los Angeles in the 2020 time frame. So don't be surprised if it doesn't happen by 2020.

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The only way is ethics … the Workplace Cocktail Hour with David Sharp

Workplace Insight

David Sharp joins Mark Eltringham on the Workplace Cocktail Hour to share a bourbon, discuss a wide range of issues – and avoid one that won’t help either of them. He has recently completed a Masters degree in AI and Ethics at Cambridge. He enjoys running, swimming and cycling. At some point, we’ll be doing it in person.

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10 Healthy Habits: Why Not Now?

Success

As of 2020, 41.9% A 2020 study , this one performed using rats, found that rats who consumed a high-fat diet not only experienced weight gain, but also “performed poorly on the novel recognition test when compared with the control group,” displaying the potential effects of a high-fat diet on our cognitive abilities.

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Sophia Bush and Nia Batts are Used to Being Underestimated

Success

It was during a social impact conference that Batts noticed Bush because she kept raising her hand whenever she had a point to make. Here are some more statistics, in case you’re not feeling as fired up as Batts quite yet: In 2020, Black and Latino founders received just 2.6% Go ahead—underestimate Sophia Bush and Nia Batts.

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Keeping Virtual Teams Focused In The Pandemic Era

BioTeams

I don’t want to be cliched by saying this, but we are now officially living in ‘unprecedented’ and dynamic times. You can say that Zoom has how replaced the conference table everywhere. 2020, May 27). Retrieved June 30, 2020, from [link]. Well, a-lot has changed in the last few months.

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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 – Joan Burge Event of Distinction

Office Dynamics

Following that, we walked over en masse to the Summerlin Ballroom for our conference day. At each place setting were a folder and a resource conference booklet, spiral bound. True balance doesn’t happen, but we can mindfully make time over our day, week or weekend to focus on more than just one or two of them.

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News from Assist Travel

Practically Perfect PA

I can’t overestimate how much time assistants spend on business travel and I genuinely think that our Executives do not have a clue that the process is so long and complex. Just think of all of the tasks and interesting projects you could be working on if you could reduce the amount of time you spent on business travel. Hotels Secrets.

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