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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

With a passion for “building the green, clean, knowledge-rich future,” she founded her company, Ethical Markets Media LLC , in 2004, when she was 72. “I We are a typical global, internet-based media company, operated out of the garage in my house.” I have a lot of fun,” she said. “We

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A workplace for entrepreneurial mindsets to thrive should be your goal

Workplace Insight

It’s a word that’s often used by big companies on the hunt for innovative thinkers and new ways of doing things. Rather, they can occasionally be found in very large and well-established companies – and everyone can benefit from learning how to become more entrepreneurially-minded. It was January 2004. Surely not.

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4 Things You Must Do for Your Career in 2017

On The Job

Then think about how you would like a potential employer to drag up something you said on Facebook in 2004 and hold you accountable for it. Learning a new skill. He knows those things are important to his company (he hears them mentioned a lot by his boss) and he's a bit intimidated when the subject comes up.

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Inside the Edinburgh PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

A place to come, learn and realise that there was at least one other PA that felt the same way you did and was facing the same every day issues you were (and some of the triumphs too!) After I moved to Edinburgh in 2004, I’ve worked in a series of roles which have all involved executive support at senior level.

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10 Trailblazing Women Paving the Way for a Better Future

Success

Read on to learn more about these trailblazing women and the work they’re doing to pave the way for a better future. She’s been to a concert on each Beyoncé tour since 2004, has a personal record of reading seven novels on a four-day vacation, has lived in 10 places in 10 years and completed five half-marathons.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

Success

Blakely , 52, is the founder and executive chairwoman of Spanx , the Atlanta-based shapewear company that rocketed to fame after Oprah Winfrey included it on her “Oprah’s Favorite Things” list in 2000. Embracing and learning from failure Her father would even have Blakely and her brother do exercises in failure.

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Why Productivity is a Matter of Life and Death for Me

Productivityist

My family''s existence changed forever upon learning this announcement. I read Getting Things Done in 2004, and I tried several different productivity tools to become more organized. I am a chief financial officer for a growing industrial products company. My productivity journey changed in four important ways: 1.