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How to Talk to Your Boss About Race: A New Book Explores Language Used in the Workplace and How We Can Improve

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These slights can take the form of offhand comments, jokes, backhanded compliments or insults. It can take the form of microaggressions or just plain aggression. Intersectionality refers to the ways in which those holding multiple marginalized identities can experience compounding or entirely unique forms of marginalization.

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Are You Hoarding Ideas?

Men With Pens

I bet that over the past months or even years, you’ve collected a ton of half-formed ideas. Maybe not clothing or gadgets, but you hoard ideas. Think about the files on your computer, the notes you’ve written to yourself, the cheat sheet full of partially formed stuff you’ll do. Heaps of them. Because they’re Good Ones.

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Why You Should Invite Your Customers to a Campfire Storytelling Session

Men With Pens

Of course, you probably don’t want to make up a story out of whole cloth—“Our natural spring water comes from the exact center of the earth, delivered in clay vessels by naked nymphs”—but you need to place your reader, your customer, in the dramatic arc of your tale. Stories Are Living Things. Another rockin' post from Men with Pens!

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Writing Tips from Blackbeard the Pirate

Men With Pens

Charles Johnson, author of the 1724 book, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates , described Teach as “such a figure that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful.” He spent his money as he earned it – on fine clothes, good food, and busty wenches.

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Entrepreneurship live and kicking! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Francis Xavier Sixth Form College in London. But then my business education does not limit me to just ticking boxes on a form (-forgive me for this little side dig, but it had to be done!). What is Small Business Infrastructure? The event was held in the St.

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16 Business Owners Share What They Would Do Differently

Stephanie LH Calahan

By creating an intake sheet in checklist form, you can remember to ask all the essential questions, detail and clarify policies, and make notes on the prospect's comments (whether they are red flags or merely useful tidbits). By having a clear set of services I provide, it is easier to respond to unexpected requests.

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Why Less Is More

Brilliantly Better

Without a goal to direct it, without a plan to make it something material, it will remain in its raw form. And every form of raw energy is a dangerous thing to play with. Without a goal to direct it, without a plan to make it something material, it will remain in its raw form. Particularly helpful when I go clothes shopping !

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