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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

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And in life, often your first act is devoted to childhood and education, your second to career and family and your third, following retirement, is how you choose to fill your golden years in service to the legacy you wish to leave. Novels have a beginning, middle and end. Leslie Jordan was likely familiar with third acts. The lesson here?

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How One Top Workplace Keeps Innovation Flowing Through Communication

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The East Valley Water District is succeeding on the strength of its willingness to be transparent with employees, keep them informed, help develop their careers, and innovate based on their input. That’s important with Baby Boomers retiring and government pensions bring retirement closer than it appears to many in the private sector.

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The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

The news stories focus on completely legitimate reasons for why this is happening, such as staff taking early retirement, fears about Covid and not wanting to return to the office, lack of childcare, and of course, the search for better jobs at higher compensation. They are, in this order; Respect for their unique talents and skills.

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Why Good Copywriting Goes Bad: Ignorance | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

When you write websites, ads, white papers, or other business materials, readers simply want information. You have to inhale information and understand it rapidly. You have to be a pregnant woman in the morning and a retired trucker in the afternoon. Good copy will reveal that the emperor is has no clothes.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

However, if they go to develop skills like writing and critical thinking, to learn more about the world and to connect with future leaders, then university is invaluable. I have used those skills almost every day of my working life. And now I coach public speaking skills. I did an Arts degree (Modern Languages).

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