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How to Plan a Working Vacation

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Fischer-Rosenthal also recommends booking refundable accommodations and services whenever possible, just in case your travel plans change with short notice. If you’re traveling to a different time zone, always double check your calendar to make sure any meeting times are correctly noted.

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Pros and Cons of virtual meetings

Practically Perfect PA

With the introduction of virtual meetings and teleconferencing people can communicate with each other in different time zones and locations very easily and a great deal cheaper than the cost of a flight. Pros: Multiple locations across all time zones. It is also not ideal for sales pitches or negotiations.

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Pros and Cons of virtual meetings

Practically Perfect PA

With the introduction of virtual meetings and teleconferencing people can communicate with each other in different time zones and locations very easily and a great deal cheaper than the cost of a flight. Pros: Multiple locations across all time zones. It is also not ideal for sales pitches or negotiations.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

They had booked the space for November 8th. I knew we were going to go back to that city the next year so negotiated with the hotel that if I booked the next event at their venue would they waive the cancellation fee. Negotiation As you saw above, negotiation is possible. It is always worth asking.

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I'm back!!

Laughing all the Way to Work

The CEO I was working for at the time was very busy and my meeting scheduling skills were put to the test. He was also an international traveler so I had to learn everything about time zones, flights and everything in between when your boss travels to a foreign country. And travel he did.

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An iPhone App In 30 Days – The Challenge

Brilliantly Better

Frustration Level (0 – 1oo): 45 – UIDatePicker is still a nasty thing, not to mention that working with time in Objective C is a pain in the arse. You have to subclass Calendars, Time Zones and Time Components if you want to do some fine grained date comparisons. Complicated.

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What to Do When Your Client is Boring | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Sometimes I think people are afraid to be loose even in a business phone conversation because we’ve been taught to “negotiate,&# "keep up your guard,&# don’t show your hand.&# Uh, we finish when the kids get home from school or it ticks past 10.00pm in one of our respective time zones? Just be you.

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