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Angelos Michalopoulos and Vassiliki Petridou Own a Third of Ios Island in Greece—Here’s Why They Won’t Develop More than 1% of It

Success

During a family vacation to the island of Ios in Greece, they decided to embark on what Michalopoulos refers to as an experiment with owning and preserving land. He offers an example of how this has happened in other parts of Greece. We propose a way where we will develop 1% of our area and then leave 99% untouched,” he says. “We

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6 Books on Failure to Build Your Resilience

Success

If you manage an office, own your own business, write proposals for funding, or currently seek a new career, you are in sales. At a quick read of 82 pages, Fenton and Waltz distinguish failure from failing by example. Did I refer to Failing Forward as a classic? And as a salesperson, the reply you will hear most often is: No.

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4 Things Your Boring Presentation is Missing

On The Job

Or, if your team is considering several proposals, you might say something like, "Plan A would be like throwing the pilot out of a stricken aircraft to make it lighter." For example, don't read off a handful of statistics and expect your audience to understand their meaning. Of course you need to use facts! End strong.

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Ensuring Synergy in the Workplace: Tips for Hiring Managers to Ensure Cultural Fit When Hiring Executive Assistants

C-Suite Assistants

At the highest level, it refers to a company’s values and how these values are expressed. Examples of values might be: Integrity, Innovation, Accountability, Teamwork, Honesty, Diversity, and Respect. Sometimes this is referred to as Personality and an even more nuanced expression encompasses Style or Chemistry.

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Throwing open the window to a new world of work

Workplace Insight

Although, his findings predated the germ theory of disease, which left him without an explanation, in 1847 he published a book in which he proposed that the link was so evident that in future staff should always wash their hands in chlorinated lime before treating patients, to protect them from infection. And that should have been that.

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Top 3 Recruitment Metrics Recruiters Must Look Into

Recruit CRM

Time to fill” refers to the amount of time that elapses between the approval of a job requisition and the day a candidate accepts a job offer, while “time to hire” measures the time it takes to move a candidate through the hiring process — or everything that comes after a job seeker becomes a candidate by applying.

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Market Yourself, Advance Your Administrative Career

Office Dynamics

Now that we’ve clarified this, let’s look at the two most effective ways to market yourself: Indirect marketing: This refers to how people perceive you – your career aptitude by your quality of work, your professionalism by the way you dress, your intelligence by your eloquence. These are just some examples. Please share!