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Ep 251: Maria Smith on the Science and Benefits of Goal-Setting

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Maria Smith worked as a sales leader for Fortune 500 companies across three different industries, and now she helps leaders, employees, and organizations understand the science and benefits of goal-setting. Growing up as the daughter of an immigrant parent, goal-setting has always been a way of life for Maria.

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Too Busy for Relationships? 5 Ways to Make Time for Connection

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I interviewed 300 people to discover the quality of their relationships and here’s what they had to say. The number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters has more than doubled between 1985 and 2004, according to a 2006 study by researchers at Duke University and the University of Arizona.

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4 Things You Must Do for Your Career in 2017

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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. But I've interviewed enough experts and read enough research to know that many people are consumed with "busyness" and aren't really productive. Learning a new skill.

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Go Straight for the Joy and Follow Your Purpose

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In 2004 I was enjoying the highest-paying, most respectable job I had ever worked. The goal is to get in touch with whatever is making our current situation feel too constricting or just plain wrong. Everything from the title on my business card to the location of the building fed my notion of success.

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Interview with Rob Siefker of Zappos – Part 1 of 4

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After interviewing Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and seeing the company’s HQ outside of Las Vegas , I knew I wanted to learn more about the nuts and bolts and day-to-day operations of Zappos. And I started in the company as a temp worker in 2004. Service Untitled: So tell me about your role and what you do at Zappos.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

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But he made diversity in the workplace a strategic initiative , laid down goals and linked those goals to manager pay. Thomas and Ayesha Kanji for Harvard Business School in 2004, Childs, as vice president of workforce diversity, executed a plan that created eight task forces. Krzanich didn’t pretend to have a can’t-miss plan.

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The Secret to Happiness… Is Just Love

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On its journey to discovering what it means to be Real, the Velveteen Rabbit learns that, in the end, it’s to have someone love you and to be able to accept that love in return. It’s the most thorough study of human lives that’s ever been done,” said George Vaillant, director of the study from 1972 to 2004. But they stay the same, too.

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