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Outgrowing Hollywood: Rita Wilson Is Taking On New Passion Projects

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She’s never just pursuing a passion project as a one-off—she goes after it with alacrity. And sometimes things take a while, but every time you get together to discuss a project and work on it and develop it further, you’re part of that creative process. What lessons have you learned about your own creativity? You really learn.

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How Company Passion Projects Can Add to the Bottom Line

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Passion projects, hobbies or innovative expressions outside the traditional 9-to-5 workday are great ways to flex our creativity and do something just for pleasure. But what does a passion project for a company or business look like? What is a passion project and why is it important?

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45 Professional Development Books to Level Up Your Career and Your Life

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In a world with countless ways to level up your professional development, books are one of the most underestimated tools. Professional development books give insight on how to grow in our careers, grow as people and better approach work-related challenges, shifting work environments and new opportunities.

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Could You Write a Book in a Month?

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I had just appeared on the Today show to promote my first nonfiction book, an account of how my life was transformed by sacrificing some little luxuries. Why I put off writing a book Writing a novel has always been my dream. Honestly, many book publishing people should write. My Year of Learning to Live Better with Less.

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4 New Books to Help You Deepen Connections, Battle Burnout and Embrace Growth

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board; Lynn Perry Wooten, the president of Simmons University; and Susan MacKenty Brady, the managing director of the Institute for Leadership at Simmons University —the advice in the book enables women already at the top and those who aspire to get there, to make effective decisions that benefit themselves and the people around them.

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How I Learned to Work Less But Do More

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By happy coincidence, I had been reading Neil Pasricha’s book The Happiness Equation. A special project management app? he says in his best-selling book, The Now Habit. Enter Greg McKeown, prophet of essentialism, and author of the book by the same name. The burn box. In it, he lays out a scribble with four quadrants.

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Make Procedures Development a Habit, Not a Project

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One of the challenges of creating administrative procedures is that many people feel overwhelmed by the project. However, thinking of procedures as one big project isn’t the right approach. If you want to make consistent progress on procedures documentation, you need to make it a habit, not a project.

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