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How Women Are Rising in Business

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According to Guidant, the highest number of women-owned small businesses were in retail (18%), followed by “food and restaurant” at 12% and “health, beauty and fitness services” at 10%. 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

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Canadians Caught in Time Crunch

Ian's Messy Desk

Despite an overall increase in volunteerism in Canada, the proportion volunteering for culture and recreation organizations dropped from 32% in 1997 to 22% in 2004. We need family-friendly policies for all workers and more community resources and supports for seniors. “We

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Can you say “sidetracked?”

Loosely Speaking

Or I could explain how my child’s recent health scare derailed my focus. Even more importantly, my family was the beneficiary of so many sincere well-wishes and prayers during my son’s health issue, that I felt I was floating in a cloud of goodwill, no matter what was actually happening around us. Oh, you poor deluded girl!

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10 Trailblazing Women Paving the Way for a Better Future

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Sheena Meade, CEO of The Clean Slate Initiative Photo courtesy of The Clean Slate Initiative Sheena Meade “leads a national bipartisan organization to advance policy that automatically clears all eligible arrest and conviction records across the US,” according to CSI’s website. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Building on your skills

Loosely Speaking

In 2009 – by implementing the Marketing Train System, even with several major life crisis’s ranging from the loss of her father, then her nanny of 2 years, her mother being ill, her own health issues, and other family issues – she TRIPLED her business by implementing this simple concept. Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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On the needles October 2008

Loosely Speaking

My current bout with knitting overdrive coincides with recent arrival of news of a loved one’s worrisome health concern. Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change? RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004. And, now for a liberal dose of my own medicine. Loose Ends.

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The Magic of Intrapreneurship Within Organizations

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In a letter to would-be shareholders in 2004, the co-founders noted that the habit “empowers [employees] to be more creative and innovative,” and that many significant advances happened during that allocated time. Those advances include AdSense, Google News and Gmail. It’s not cost cutting,” she adds, to withhold these things.

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