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Should People with Grit Ever Give Up?

Success

Having grit doesn’t mean never giving up; it means not giving up on our long-term goals. And sometimes the best way to achieve our long-term goals may be to give up on unproductive short-term goals. Duckworth, for example, says her “highest-level goal is to use psychological science to help kids thrive.”

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Unlearning Silence in the Workplace: How to Speak Up at Work

Success

But some workplace experts are speaking up and encouraging employees to do just the same in 2024; perhaps the only “resolution” you will need this year is some real talk. What assumptions do we hold about where and when we’re allowed to speak up? What have we experienced as the costs of speaking up in the past?

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5 SOP examples for your business

BMT Office Administration

To help you visualize what an SOP should look like and include, we’ve created five simple SOP examples. More complex processes can even be broken up into multiple SOPs to detail different tasks within a larger process. Take a look at the following examples to see what a basic SOP should look like. What is an SOP?

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How Playing to Your Weaknesses Can Help You Level Up 

Success

The bungee cords—or the things that snap us back from success—are what I refer to as personal constraints. For example, if you think you might be a “bulldozer”—someone who is overly dominant and always has to be in control —take the bulldozer constraint quiz. And the snap isn’t always pretty. Here’s a little quiz for you.

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Elevating Your Role As An Executive Assistant

ProAssisting Blog

That said, use your emotional intelligence to understand when and how to bring up such ideas and concerns. If you find the right timing, can discern your principal’s openness at that time, AND come armed with a solution or highlight an issue they hadn’t considered, they will sit up and take notice.

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IRS guidance addresses SECURE 2.0’s catch-up contribution dilemma

BMT Office Administration

The saga of 401(k) catch-up contributions under SECURE 2.0 Beginning with catch-up contributions to be made next year, employees whose Social Security wages (W-2, Box 3 wages) exceed $145,000 this year can make catch-up contributions on a Roth, after-tax basis only. is well known.

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AI Tools Making Space For More Architectural Creativity

Allwork

By harnessing this technology, architects and designers are opening up more time to focus on ideation and innovation. By harnessing this technology, architects and designers are opening up more time to focus on ideation and innovation. They reference exclusive databases populated with the most up-to-date codes.

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